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Two Cheers for British Museum’s Sanitized Hajj Exhibition

By Nabila Pathan

…be replaced by skyscrapers and commercial centers. Instead the exhibition promotes the less provocative form of modernization in the form of contemporary art depicting the Ka’bah and worshippers through a magnet and iron filings. Still, while the exhibition fails to capture the reality of modern Hajj, providing only a glossy and sanitized version, the widespread media coverage of the exhibition’s launch is worth remarking upon, especially when th…

Occupy Francis Lewis Boulevard

By Haroon Moghul

…knows why this is, but it is a convincing argument against evolution, because if we all have this mutual awkwardness gene, it doesn’t make any sense that there are hundreds of millions of us crammed into small spaces, breeding like, well, South Asian rabbits. The customer at front grins at his rubber bullet origins story, but more out of exasperation than actual amusement. “They showed it on TV. A protester held a bullet up to the camera and it s…

Tibet is Burning: Is the Freedom Movement Entering a New Phase?

By Tsering Namgyal

…Or, has self-immolation become a new modus operandi of the Tibetan movement? Whatever the answers, it does seem that the movement for Tibetan freedom is indeed entering a new phase. …

Heaven On Earth: A Non-Hysterical History of Shari’ah

By Haroon Moghul

…reful scrutiny. As should be obvious, people do not speak for God just because they say they do. We hear so much about differences between Islam and the West, as crude as such language is. But you note that the English jury system may have roots in Islamic law as it developed in North Africa. I think readers would be fascinated to know how Islamic law has influenced, or shares similarities with, Western legal traditions. That specific link you me…

The Best the Largest Progressive Jewish Org Could Come Up With?

By Jay Michaelson

…… “Bend the Arc.” Yup, this is the new name of the largest domestically-focused Jewish progressive organization in the country, created out of the merger of Progressive Jewish Alliance and Jewish Funds for Justice, the latter of which had already swallowed up a number of smaller Jewish social justice organizations. I know several people who work at BtA, and I commend them on their ability to keep a secret. I and friends of mine plied several of t…

Inventing Jesus: An Interview with Bart Ehrman

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…s-talk, especially taking place in the political arena? I think Jesus gets used by everybody who claims to be Christian for their own purposes. Most of the time this is an abuse of Jesus. It’s not respecting what he really stood for. It’s manipulating his message for one’s own advancement, and I don’t think that’s a good thing. If there are no churches where Jesus would recognize himself, how can modern churches start to preach about the real Jesu…

Who Would Jesus Marry?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…pparent artifact of a late second-century Christian community somewhere in Egypt, merits further study. These are among the salient facts of the discovery at this point, and scholars quickly began queuing up to weigh in on whether or not the fragment is authentic. But the more popular conversation has swirled around an issue to which King herself made clear the fragment was not able to speak: Was Jesus married? Was his wife the historically confus…

Christ is Pissed, Again

By Hollis Phelps

…amily Council, told Fox News that the two incidents shore up “the contrast between Islam and Christianity.” “You don’t have to plead with Christians not to riot and burn and storm buildings simply because they are offended,” Perkins said. “That’s the difference. That’s why Christianity moves nations forward and Islam moves nation backwards.” Although the Times’ Nicholas Kristof has taken a seemingly more measured approach, he still stresses that P…

Which Islamists?: Religion and the Syrian Civil War

By Haroon Moghul

…butes to the fight. If things get bad for the regime, do you think they’ll use chemical weapons? No one knows if Assad will use them, of course, but with 40,000 already dead, it’s sad that Syria has received renewed attention only because we now fear Assad may kill his own people with chemicals instead of with bullets. Is this now a sectarian war? If so, will it draw in the rest of the Middle East? Though it’s a popular suggestion, the demographic…

Arab Spring: Countering the Naysayers

By Maryam Jamshidi

…se and other groups in the region, individuals have invested themselves in bettering their societies. They have refused to allow government officials to dictate the terms of political engagement, pushed cultural and social norms, and created a vibrant public arena that was long absent from the Arab world. I hope people come away from this book appreciating the inroads made by these grassroots initiatives, as well as their importance to the future…