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Sharbat Gula’s Experience Exemplifies the ‘White Savior’ Lens Through Which Most Americans View Afghanistan

By Sara Kamali

…ens that continues to shape the understandings of the histories of Central Asian and Afghanistan, including how narratives of Afghans themselves are told. Orientalism, as defined in cultural critic Edward Said’s 1978 seminal work of the same name, is in part defined as pejorative perceptions of the Orient from a colonialist perspective, which regard people living in the Middle East as well as South, Central, and East Asia as “less than.” Within th…

The Other, Forgotten Apocalypse of 2011

By Jason Bruner

…derstood in relation to Hmong religious and cultural history and Southeast Asian sociopolitical history. Nearly any missionary could attest to an important dynamic at work in Dien Bien: that which is preached is not that which is heard or, much less, appropriated by the hearers. The Hmong’s appropriation of a translated message resulted in a remarkable expression of their religious and political heritage. Such an expression should not be taken lig…

Goliath the Israel Slayer: Why Max Blumenthal’s New Book is a Painful Read

By Shaul Magid

…mbia University, which doesn’t exist,* he was in the Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department (also known as MESAS). Many of his more substantive comments aren’t wrong so much as deceptive. In discussing the pernicious book Torat ha-Melekeh—which sanctions, according to Jewish Law, under certain conditions, the murder of non-Jews, sometimes even children—Blumenthal writes, “And here they were to defend a book that openly justifi…

Closing with Gospel in Morocco

By Hussein Rashid

…s. I am not sure why, but the Moroccan audience—and Bab Makina has a large number of upper-class Moroccans in attendance—really enjoy gospel. It’s an appreciation that appeared to cut across generations. Based on comments I heard, people are aware that many of the songs praise Jesus as the son of God, an idea that is anathema to Muslims. Unfortunately, I could not understand the appeal, outside of the aesthetic, but it was wonderful to see so many…

Atheists Miss Another #MeToo Moment

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…Movement atheism has long been hostile to the efforts of black, Latinx and Asian non-believers to address anti-racism, feminism, social justice, queer intersectionality, and the lived experiences of segregated folks of color. But this overt hostility is also buttressed by a “more benign” white leadership that spouts inclusivity yet remains white and middle class. This climate has contributed to an exodus of people of color, white women, and queer…

The Muslim Ban May Be Unconstitutional, But It’s Not Un-American

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…Southern trees like strange fruit, the effects of warehousing and killing Asian Americans in detention camps, the genocidal removal of Native Americans from the homes they built and the destruction of their relationship with the earth, a prison industrial system that profits the few at the expense of millions of Black and Brown bodies, and mass graves of Mexican migrants on the Southern borders. Something demonic has been at work in the historica…

RD Response to Fox Crit of White Supremacy in Yoga Engages in Victim Blaming

By Rumya Putcha

…a fever pitch under the anti-immigration Trump administration, Brown South Asian bodies experience racism in ways that stand apart from the well-documented forms of systemic injustice that fall under the category of “Anti-Black” in the United States. Jain’s corrective, arguably addressed to Gandhi and Wolff, reveals that when it comes to talking about the lasting and lived legacies of White supremacy in the United States context, there are still t…

Today’s Inauguration Was a Reconsecration of Sacred Space

By Peter Laarman

…can poet set many hearts aflutter, and in which an extraordinary Black and Asian woman (with a Jewish husband to boot!) was sworn into the second-highest office in the land. And Joe Biden? Our new president will never be eloquent, but today he showed us his heart. And I would say that his call for a moment of silence in honor of the Covid dead had an eloquence all its own. Altogether a fitting beginning. The Latin root of “inauguration” harks back…

Morality Police, Jihadists, Religious Competition, Grindr, & Americans Abroad: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nes of arrestees to try to entrap other gay men. In related news, the smartphone app Grindr, which allows gay men to find each other, announced it would permanently disable an option that allowed people to see their distance from other users. There have been reports that police in Egypt and Iran have used Grindr to hunt and arrest gay men. Jamaica: Activist Drops Challenge to Sodomy Law in Face of Threats A Jamaican gay-rights activist dropped his…

Meet the Real Mitt Romney

By Joanna Brooks

…em, missionary training and outreach to Hispanic, Portugese, and Southeast Asian converts, including Cambodian and Laotian refugees whose teenagers were joining the church in droves.” Through interviews with Belmont-area LDS Church members, Romney comes across as dedicated and hardworking, “imperious” but also capable of great tenderness, a “Big Mormon” who was a “pretty full of himself” yet worked intensely to develop ways to serve at-risk young…