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How to Prevent Ethnic Cleansing in Syria

By Haroon Moghul

…were gradually cleansed, frequently through blood and fire, while in South Asia, mere talk of new boundaries in the 1940s precipitated horrific violence. That process has begun in the Arab world, or at least threatens to, and we would do well to pay closer attention. There are, I would argue, three regions the Arab world can be loosely divided into. Across the northwest, we have the “Maghreb,” made up of large, overwhelmingly Muslim, sparsely popu…

Muslims for Trump

By Haroon Moghul

…latant as to be unavoidable. Many American Muslims are from South and West Asia; many of our parents came as credentialed white collar professionals at a time when salaries were outstanding, job prospects were excellent, and the government opened the door wide. Many of these folks stayed long enough to watch America turn into an ever more ossified society, such that those with money—including significant numbers of America’s small Muslim community…

Rarefied Islamophobia: When Americans Duplicate the European Cultural Talk

By Jocelyne Cesari

…deniable that many of these changes were triggered by the arrival of large numbers of immigrants from Africa, North Africa, and Asia; as a result, cultural and religious institutions in Europe are facing many serious challenges. And yet even if this central assumption is true and Caldwell’s overall analysis of cultural and demographic evolution of Europe is correct, the author examines the questions within the primitive trappings of “The Green Per…

The Jersey Shores of Tripoli: MTV and Arab Revolution

By Haroon Moghul

…. Not only had Japan won, but decisively so. Japan defeated Russia in East Asia, then sat around waiting for Russia’s European navy to show up (it took many months to navigate around Africa), and then, once that showed up, they sunk all of that, too. People across the Middle East found inspiration in a non-white, non-Christian, non-European power, thinking: If they can do it, why can’t we? The tyranny of low expectations, of longstanding assumptio…

The Kaaba: Center of the Universe

By Amina Wadud

…ain in to see the Sistine Chapel. Cathedrals across Europe, temples across Asia, synagogues, natural formations used for worship the world over, and of course, mosques, mosques, mosques. But what makes a place sacred? I like the interpretation of the word sacred as “set apart.” There is the everyday ordinary, and then, there is the non-ordinary: that which we set apart, or that sets us apart. Ever go into a huge sanctuary and yet still find yourse…

How Does Mormonism Shape Romney’s Foreign Policy?

By Joanna Brooks

…and Israel this week for his summer foreign policy tour. His itinerary—no Asia, no Middle East—is designed to convey an air of statesmanship and court key demographics (Israel for Jews and evangelical Christians, Poland for some Catholics) without putting Romney in places where his foreign policy positions, especially his opposition to a timetable for withdrawal from Afghanistan, run counter to the sensibilities of most Americans. Romney observer…

Hungarian Mayor Wants to Import White Christians, Ban Muslims & LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…urt. Japan: Will recognition of same-sex parternships go national? At East Asia Forum, Curtin University’s Yasuo Takao examines the propsects for recognition of same-sex partnerships to expand from the local level to nationally. Scotland: Footballer joins anti-bullying campaign Retired soccer player – or footballer in local parlance – Derek Ferguson has become a spokesperson for the Time for Inclusive Education campaign, “which is currently lobbyi…

Elliot Spitzer and America’s Ethical Perversity

By Rabbi Michael Lerner

…ops. Meanwhile, our government has overtly engaged in torture, wiretapping phones, and violations of our human rights and the rights of people around the world. The US government has rejected every attempt to implement the Kyoto environmental agreements, or to work out new agreements sufficiently strong to reverse environmental destruction certain to lead to new levels of flooding particularly in several poor countries around the world. The conseq…

French Theologian Urges Islam to Self-Critique, Fails to Notice Log in Own Eye

By Daniel J. Schultz

…French who trace their origins to the Maghreb, West Africa, and South East Asia, or the immigrants who live beyond the confines of Paris’ périphérique. The “we” that needs to be reminded that it is at war is the “we” that has been waging it for over a century. This is the (generic Western, liberal, mostly white) “we” whose punditry rallies to the strong rhetoric of war when something tragic occurs in New York, Madrid, London, and Paris, but which…

Boehner Should Take A Breather

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…l economies; and 4) the fact that it all started in the US, rather than in Asia or South America. This is all new, and terrifying.) Boehner was pushed on some of his rhetoric, pressed to see just how partisan he is prepared to be in public. The answer is, Not very. He immediately backed down and admitted that the nation has a terrible crisis at hand, and that it is not about Democratic or Republican solutions, so long as they are real solutions. A…