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Christian Nationalists and the Holy Gun Crusade

By Thomas Lecaque

…ent verses on all of their sights being sold to the US military for use in Iraq and Afghanistan. The company’s website still says, “We believe that America is great when its people are good. This goodness has been based on Biblical standards throughout our history and we will strive to follow those morals.” This idea is everywhere—guns and God, hand in hand. It is not harmless, though. This is the level of Christian nationalism the United States h…

Dispatches from the Borderlands: Missing Voices

By Daniel Ramirez

…praise the beneficiaries of that amnesty for dying in military service in Iraq. While demanding stricter border security, we forget that such measures have grossly inflated the number of undocumented immigrants residing in the US. Half of these used to return to Mexico annually, but researchers now estimate that only one-fourth do so today; stricter border enforcement measures since 1994 have staunched the cyclical flow of the return home of mill…

Amway, Religious Right Pyramid Scheme, Returns to the Motherland

By Bill Berkowitz

…sona? Colson has been an unapologetic supporter of President Bush’s War in Iraq, going so far as signing on to a 2002 statement declaring the impending war to be a “just” war. Not long ago, Colson accused several highly respected opponents of Bush’s faith-based initiative, including the Rev. Barry Lynn, the executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, of enabling terrorism. In 2004, Colson warned that the Senate’s fai…

Rest in Peace, Sam Huntington

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…a War on Terror. Though he was a lifelong Democrat and was opposed to the Iraq war, Huntington’s thesis, along with the ideas of Leo Strauss, was part of the intellectual framework of the disastrous foreign policy of George W. Bush. Though his way of thinking about the interaction of religion and politics on a worldwide basis helped to pave the way to our understanding of cultural politics in a globalized, post-secular age, it is a pity that he g…

Does Romney’s Religion Condone Torture? [UPDATED]

By Joanna Brooks

…thorizing the United States’ use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” in Iraq; and Timothy Flanigan, deputy White House counsel who participated with Alberto Gonzalez in Bush’s “War Council” and testified before a Senate panel that waterboarding and other torture techniques should not necessarily be “off-limits” and that “inhumane can’t be coherently defined.” When dozens of religious leaders and organizations issued a 2005 statement calling on…

Palin on Syria: Let “Allah” Sort it Out

By Garibaldi

…ment was nothing more than a play on a famous phrase (originating from Crusader Arnaud Amalric’s sacking of Beziers), which received an update by troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan (two wars Palin supported as “God’s will”): “Kill ‘em all. Let Allah Sort ‘em Out.”…

The Irony of the American Studies Israel Boycott

By Jon Pahl

…itious weight behind the resolution). At the risk of piling on, there are significant reasons well beyond “academic freedom” (claimed by both sides in this debate) to oppose this action. To lay my cards on the table—I have attended the ASA national meetings, and I have been a member (although I’m not at present). Furthermore, I am about to take my first trip to Israel, at the invitation of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia. To prepare…

Don’t Call it a Turkish Spring

By Haroon Moghul

…p of outside powers (Russia because of Syria, Israel because of Gaza) were promoting a sustained, organized effort to besmirch Turkey. These various forces, they said, could not stand the idea of a powerful Muslim democracy, and had long waited for this chance to take Turkey down. For a country especially dependent on foreign investment, they argued, it was a brilliant move. Other AKP supporters took a different tack. ‘Stop crying over spilled mil…

How Do We Talk About Islam After Charlie Hebdo?

By Asma Afsaruddin

…ntinuous carnage being wreaked by the so-called Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (or Da‘ish) under the banner of a revived “caliphate” and there can be little doubt, it seems, that Muslims are increasingly devolving into killing machines motivated by blind rage. Such a phenomenon is furthermore understandable because Muslims supposedly can draw seamlessly from Islamic history and vocabulary to provide justification for their violence. No matter how…

Keep Jews Interesting: It’s Time to Stop Being Defined by Anti-Semitism

By Shaul Magid

…want to deny Jews the right of self-determination or because they want to promote Palestinians’ right of self-determination. The British historian Arthur Toynbee, himself quite an anti-Semite, once said that history is “just one bloody thing after another.” It seems, from reading books like Weiss’s, that Jewish history is “just one bloody anti-Semitic thing after another.” The truth is, this is not of her own making. A whole school of Jewish hist…