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Manchester—Last Gasp of a Failing Terror Movement?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…by ISIS. On the other hand, the terrorist movement of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria seems to claim credit for anything violent these days, and it is not yet clear whether Abedi was directed to carry out this mission by ISIS leaders in Syria or whether it was simply branded that way. Abedi may have just been sympathetic with their ideas and carried out the attack on his own. Either way, it may give the impression that ISIS is still in the gam…

‘No Room’ for Gays in Country that Worships God [Kenya] | Churches Fight to Keep Sexuality Out of Sex Ed [S. Korea] | Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…of Australia in January for his long service to the country, offered his resignation this week after a flap over Brady’s partner of 32 years, Peter Stephens, but it was not accepted. According to the Herald-Sun, Ambassador Brady was waiting with Peter Stephens, his partner of 32 years, (photo right) on the tarmac of a Paris airport for the arrival of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, when a protocol officer told the ambassador that the prime…

Top Five (Less Sensational, But More Dangerous) Things to Remember About Pat Robertson (1930-2023)

By Mark Hulsether

…mpire’s Workshop (Metropolitan, 2006) documents Bush/Cheney building their Iraq policies on Central American precedents from this era. 4) Robertson fuses with News Corp. Robertson built what was once the nation’s fourth-largest television network—partly through claiming tax breaks as a religious ministry. Then he cashed in when Rupert Murdoch acquired what was then known as The Family Channel. This story has two morals: The first is that Fox News…

The VP Debate: Sassy Meets the Statesman

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…entral front (Afghanistan, says Biden, from September 11, 2001 ‘til today… Iraq, says Palin, adding to the sass by saying that Democrats wish “to wave the white flag of surrender” there); and on the causes of the current fiscal crisis (deregulation and Reaganomics, says the Senator… a failure of personal responsibility, says the finger-wagging soccer-mom). They agreed about some things too—most notably, that the *middle class* is the “shrinking ce…

From Confusion to Kardashian: Misreading the Middle East

By Haroon Moghul

…l, too. I’d argue that the post-Arab Spring political environment played a significant part in Israel’s decision not to launch a ground invasion of Gaza, rendering 2012 different from and far less bloody than 2008. After all, a live-tweeted, instagrammed incursion into the densely populated Gaza Strip, roughly the size and population of Philadelphia, would’ve been a public relations disaster. That appeared to have been Hamas’ strategy, too, escala…

Hate Crimes Bill—At What Cost?

By David Gillespie

…erally, that the awful truth of the bill escaped them. To wit, a measure designed to enhance protection of innocently attacked people was attached to a larger measure designed to enhance the ability of the United States to continue to kill innocent men, women and children in far off countries. The title of Hedges’ post is telling: War Is a Hate Crime. Even the highly respected and clear-thinking Dennis Kucinich did not vote for the bill which is n…

Muslim Stowaways
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Titanic: “Eurabian” Alarmism 2.0

By Haroon Moghul

…gs generally speaking do the same. Many Muslims saw the 1990s sanctions on Iraq as horrific; in the United States, our leadership didn’t have too much of a problem with them—even defending them as painfully necessary. When asked her reaction to half a million dead Iraqi children, Madeleine Albright admitted to the moral difficulty of the situation, but concluded, “The price is worth it.” For every Caldwell who links incidents of Muslim violence to…

How Does Mormonism Shape Romney’s Foreign Policy?

By Joanna Brooks

…issionary who served in Chile during the Pinochet coup) who supervised and signed the 2002 “Torture Memos” effectively authorizing the United States’ use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” in Iraq. Allegiance to the chain of command trumps broadly humane ideals. That’s a disposition I believe reflects late twentieth century institutional Mormonism, as I’ve argued elsewhere. So, on the matter of foreign policy, it’s worth noting that the most r…

Extremist Women Want In

By Shabana Mir

…It doesn’t work for the men and it won’t work for the women. A woman, who signed her name “Companion of Weapons,” added her support to a lengthy essay of protest online: “How many times have I wished I were a man… When Sheikh Ayman al-Zawahri said there are no women in al-Qaida, he saddened and hurt me.” She listened to the speech 10 times, and “felt that my heart was about to explode in my chest… I am powerless.” The stirrings of feminism are ne…

Updated with Audio: Secular Good, Muslim Bad: Unveiling Tunisia’s Revolution

By Haroon Moghul

…this?: Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Oman, Yemen, and Bahrain. That’s 15 countries, including the most populous, Egypt. And while I’m not sure about The Sudan, there are of course strong restrictions around women’s dress in Saudi Arabia. That’s possibly 2 countries for the other side. (In fact, in the whole Muslim world, only two other countries legally mandate th…