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State Department Finds Religion, But Whose?

By Melani McAlister

…stan’s Peshawar region, where it created a group called “Faith Friends” to promote “tolerance” and interfaith cooperation. In part, IGE can do things like this because, unlike the many right-wing think tanks focused on “Islam,” it is genuinely interested in dialogue. But what kind of dialogue? Although IGE sounds like a typical (read presumably secular) inside-the-Beltway think tank, it isn’t. The organization was founded by Chris’s father Robert…

Note From Across The Pond: Church-State Separation Isn’t For Everyone

By Linda Woodhead

…he very religion-state engagement the State Department initiative seeks to promote. Let me illustrate in relation to Europe. Europe’s historical entanglement with religion is deep and ancient. In fact, the very idea of “Europe” is a product of Christianity’s attempt to bring unity to this region under the auspices of the Holy Roman Empire. Moreover, the rise of European nation states in the early modern period is bound up with the contemporaneous…

On NSA Spying, What’s With the Silence of the Lambs?

By Peter Laarman

…ure public. As we were meeting on Thursday morning, news was breaking back East about Feinstein’s pitiful and shameful defense of FISA Court-authorized spying. If you suppose that our mutterings of protest about that seemed feeble and feckless under the circumstances, you would be correct. What we should have said, loud and clear, is that state secrecy and state torture are intimately connected, as any reality-tour of terror-laden 20th (and early…

How the Messianic Jews Story is Playing in Israel

By Sarah Posner

…Israelis Ask: Time to Accept Messianic Jews?” Well, a headline writer, at least. Facing the avalanche of criticism from the American Jewish community, it’s not surprising that Messianic Jews would try to find a thread of acceptance from an Israeli source. But it’s worth noting that the acceptance, or lack of acceptance, of Messianic Jews in Israel is steeped in very different issues and concerns than it is in the United States. Most Israelis are…

Jerusalem Honors Right-Wing Mogul Sheldon Adelson

By Diane Winston

…Adelson’s recent comments on the Palestinians and the prospects for Middle East peace would be simply laughable if the gazillionaire mogul did not wield so much power. Adelson, who spent millions trying to prevent Barack Obama’s re-election, was feted at a tourism industry lunch in Jerusalem last week. The mayor of Jerusalem also bestowed honorary citizenship on the right-wing philanthropist, acknowledging his longstanding generosity to Israeli cu…

Discovering “Little Syria”—New York’s Long-Lost Arab Neighborhood

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…as home to at least 50 Arabic language newspapers and magazines, dozens of Eastern Christian churches, and bustling restaurants, bakeries, silk-traders, tailors, all living vertically next to the elevated train tracks, in time-honored New York City tenement tradition. Only, in contrast to Chinatown or the Lower East Side, there is nearly nothing left of Little Syria. I walked what remains of Little Syria with Joseph Svehlak, a longtime tour guide…

What is Interfaith Cooperation For?

By Eboo Patel

…Shouldn’t Muslim and Jewish doctors who have different views on the Middle East continue operating on patients together in American hospitals? Shouldn’t conservative Catholic and progressive Protestant preschool teachers who disagree on abortion continue educating their students together? Shouldn’t anti-Iraq War Sunnis and pro-Iraq War Kurds send their kids to the same Little League baseball camps? Participating in civic activities with people you…

Free Arabs: Satire, Disobedience, and Disclaimers

By Nabil Echchaibi

…d secure social prosperity and cultural renewal. In a sense, and as Middle East scholar Khalil al-Anani argues, the political failures of Islamist parties in post-Arab Spring countries are causing a ‘desacralization’ of their religious and political ideology and diminishing their credibility and symbolic power. “Islamists’ behavior,” al-Anani writes, “has shown that they, like other human beings, are prone to make mistakes and commit sins… while I…

Big Love, Saudi-Style

By Haroon Moghul

…concern for the overwhelming majority of Muslims. When I mentioned traveling the Muslim world, include in those itineraries American and European Muslims. It’s pretty much a non-practice. Until someone comes along and produces the Big Love of the Middle East; there are, after all, substantive differences. The four wives cannot be related. There cannot be more than four wives. And they must all be maintained at the same standard. So when it comes…

Conservative Bishops Headed For Synod Victory?; Indonesian Sharia Official Says Gay Caning Law Meant To ‘Safeguard Human Dignity’; Slovenian Court OK’s Referendum on Marriage Equality Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…try, caught up in anti-LGBT crackdowns that have rippled across the Middle East in recent years.” Even though the UN High Commissioner for Refugees “fast-tracks LGBT refugees for resettlement because it considers them especially vulnerable,” but most will still “have to wait about two years for a ticket out of Turkey.” But to an individual, those two years can feel like an eternity. Refugees are generally barred from working and often survive doin…