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Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Terrible Tweet

By Haroon Moghul

…ppeal to specific verses, but a calm perusal of the newspaper. How can the Arab world, for example, technologically progress when its most populous state was kept under our thumb for decades? It is easy for Americans to forget that we supported Egypt’s dictator for thirty years, and happily welcomed Qaddafi back into ‘civilization’ when he realigned his policies with our own—not in the area of human rights, but ‘counterterrorism’. (And by ‘our’ I…

Islam, Meet Maureen Dowd

By Haroon Moghul

…wer is blind, entitlement is deaf. Dowd is frustrated by her trip to Saudi Arabia—but it’s not clear why she expects that because Saudi Arabia is “the cradle of Islam,” that it would provide the best introduction to Islam. The bias towards origins is a bias that has gone on for far too long. One can experience Islam in many places, and those different practices of Islam—most of them not even Arab—are as fully Islam as any other. (She could have em…

The Story of a Post-Holocaust Group Seeking Revenge Against Nazis is Part of the Story of Israel Itself

By Shane Burley

…eated a culture of performative revenge through “paycheck attacks” against Arabs, which is supposed to raise the cost of living for Arabs in a land that Jewish militants believe was given to them by God. Figures like Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh take a radically literal read of kabbalah (which Shaul Magid calls “messianic realism”), asserting that a kind of cataclysm, which could be read as politically motivated violence, is necessary…

A desolate road in Israel lined with security fencing.

Decadence, Sickness, and Death: Mourning and the Israel-Hamas War

By Shaul Magid

…country. It has accomplished an enormous amount in a short time. But the “Arab Question” or the “Palestinian Problem” as it used to be called, remains. And given Israel’s political inclinations, it’s becoming less relevant because the Right has essentially crushed Palestinian aspirations, or pushed them to a breaking point. It wrongly thinks the Palestinians will be wrestled into submission. That they will give up. But zero-sum games are rarely s…

What Does the Muslim World Really Want?

By Becky Garrison

…eyed felt that the 9/11 attacks were “completely” justified and viewed the United States unfavorably. Despite the media’s characterization of select mosques as breeding grounds for terrorism, none of these radicals cited their religion as the reason for justifying terrorist acts. Instead, their justifications for employing violence to bring about their ends were more in line with the views held by other political revolutionaries. While this film b…

Islamophobia v. Islamo-comedy

By Hafsa Kanjwal

…t what they fail to mention is that the Western governments, including the United States, support these dictators—oftentimes with military and economic aid. Muslims in Western societies, including America, are also targeted in the film. Apparently, some of them are trying to overthrow Western governments and establish an Islamic state. Last I checked, they were still trying to get through airport security. There is barely any engagement, in the fi…

Is Zionism No Longer Able to Offer Solutions to the Present Reality?

By Shaul Magid

…s to have true political autonomy in one state. Other theories of a Jewish-Arab confederation exist as well. Liberal Zionists have often mostly dismissed such ideas as “fantasy.” But one of Hartman’s contributions here is that two states may be just as fantastical. Liberal Zionism is no less utopian than progressive one-statism. Hartman’s alternative is to apply a new version of liberalism, a “Jewish liberal story,” to the present reality in a way…

Palin Cries ‘Blood Libel’: Can Words Harm Us?

By Susannah Heschel

…a pound of flesh from Antonio, but, as a Zionist, appropriating land from Arabs. The Middle East blood libel has evolved to include charges of Jews drinking Arab blood, serialized television programs about ritual murder, newspaper columns, and cartoons—frequently published with official government approval. Some are Guilty, but All are Responsible Sarah Palin accused her critics of practicing a “blood libel” and closed by stating that “we need Go…

Burying the Future: Youth Violence in Chicago

By Ibrahim Abusharif

…te, or graffiti-marked loyalty. Consider the mortal modern day strife: Jew-Arab (the Holy Land), or Sunni-Shia (Iraq for example), or Protestant-Catholic (Northern Ireland for example), or competing secular economic paradigms like communist-capitalist (Vietnam, Korea, for examples), or tribal Hutu-Tutsi (Rwanda), or underground oil-no oil (Iraq), or views on human ownership and cheap labor (North and South), or urban struggle for abandoned storefr…

Run Hajar Run

By Amina Wadud

…ere. So she does indeed bear a child, and they name him Isaac (or Ishaq in Arabic). Then the story gets interesting. Well, what good are Hajar and her pesky kid if the couple has their own? According to biblical versions (we don’t have these details in the Qur’an), Sarah gets jealous and harasses the old man to get rid of the both of them. And the old man—who stood up to his people, but cannot stand up to God, nor stand up to Sarah—takes the slave…