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Pakistan and Iran, a War on Two Fronts

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…ic viability of the state suspect as well. And to be sure, the neighboring Arab countries have not done much to help either the situation or their Palestinian comrades. The parties on all sides of this conflict that do not want peace have found it very easy to play the current system to maintain a constant state of low-level violence that periodically breaks out into hotter moments, like the one we saw in south Lebanon, and the one we see now in G…

Paul Crouch, Architect of Prosperity Gospel Televangelism, Dead at 79

By Sarah Posner

…“prophetic” significance, claiming that it would reach both the Jewish and Arab residents of the city. Crouch’s son Matthew, speaking from a Jersualem balcony with his father, added, “what is the message of the Gospel, if it isn’t for the Jew first?” Best known for his controversially extravagant spending, with his wife and business partner Jan, Paul Crouch survived many a media exposé. He and his wife built their network, worth hundreds of millio…

Solidarity Through Veiling? Backlash Has Been “Personal, Fierce and Vile…”

By Sarah Eltantawi

…ategy to export their version of Islam around the world. At the same time, Arabs and South Asians began to work in Saudi Arabia in huge numbers and brought a new and more conservative understanding of Islam back to their home countries. Combine this with the Iranian Revolution of 1978-9 and we have a significant percentage of the Muslim majority world experiencing this moment. – In view of these last two points, it is interesting to read the many…

80 Million Anglicans Can’t Be Wrong—Or Can They?

By Elizabeth Drescher

…outposts of the Anglican Communion—though less and less so in England, the United States, and other Western churches. A Rainbow Emerges from the Cloud of Whiteness In the West, Sentamu’s strident objections to women in the episcopate and LGBT persons pretty much anywhere in the Church as other but piteous sinners would be as profoundly alienating as it might be welcomed by Anglicans in more reliably conservative African, Asian, and Latin American…

Dilemmas of American Empire: Can Obama Pull Off a Game-Changer in Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan?

By Gary Dorrien

…out igniting a horrible civil war, one that Iran, Syria, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia would not sit out. The best hope is that Iraqis will decide for integration and sovereignty, but it is up to them to decide whether they want a unitary state, a decentralized federation, three nations, or something else. I don’t want President Obama to make that decision or to commit U.S. troops to one of these outcomes. We must hold the Obama Administration to leave…

The Bleeding Heart of Muslim Europe

By Haroon Moghul

…hem seem just as perplexed, but additionally faintly alarmed.) Some of the Arabs are young, wide fellows with mighty beards and rust-colored thobes. Others are nouveaux petroleum riche, ambassadors for the Arab Gulf’s second most precious export: unfit men who passionately pursue high-end clothing as ridiculously ugly as it is expensive. Their wives are fully veiled, in black burkas that would be banned in other parts of Europe—like France. The th…

But Are They “The Good Muslims”?

By Haroon Moghul

…tical freedom. Even Salafis escape easy characterization. America’s oldest Arab ally is Saudi Arabia, which implements and exports the type of Salafi Islam we’re so alarmed by. So what kinds of Salafis can we live with, and who would we prefer to live without? Salafis in Egypt are hard to pin down, too. Does their conservative theology make them politically dangerous, or politically irrelevant? Today, we’d guess the former. But prior to January 25…

Saipov Wasn’t a “Member” of ISIS, But That Misses the Point

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…stituted an alternative movement rivaling the size and significance of the Arab Sunni-based Caliphate in Syria and Iraq. The global network was nourished in part to gain recruits to come to the Middle East battlefields where they provided a stockpile of suicide bombers willing to destroy themselves in savage attacks against ISIS’ imagined enemies. Some 30,000 young fighters came from all over the world to Syria and Iraq during the movement’s heyda…

Women and Children First: Syria’s Day of Dignity

By Mohja Kahf

…hern city of Daraa with the phrase being heard in dictatorships across the Arab world, The people want! To topple the regime! For this, fifteen children of Dara, from nine years to fourteen years old, were dragged to prison on March 5. That they were tortured, the fingernails of some reportedly pulled out, would emerge later. This, while in the north in early February crackdowns, five Kurdish children ages fourteen to sixteen were arrested. No lon…

Mormons Declare Same-Sex Marriage Apostasy, Deny Baptism to Children of Same-Sex Couples; Colombian Court OKs Adoption Over Church Objections; Franklin Graham Praises Putin’s Anti-Gay Policies; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…seemingly more aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood than Franklin Graham.” United Kingdom: Married Chaplain Loses Anti-Discrimination Case Against Church of England Bishop Jeremy Pemberton, a hospital chaplain employed by the National Health Service, lost an employment discrimination case against the Church of England after he married his same-sex partner and was subsequently stripped of his license to preach in the licence to preach in the Dioces…