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No, Sunni and Shia Muslims Have Not Been Fighting Forever

By Haroon Moghul

…even mandatory. Unless you’re on the receiving end of that priority. Huge numbers of Americans kill each other, every year, for all kinds of reasons. We continue to use the power of the state to marginalize, and practically execute, large numbers of unarmed black men, women and even children, and deny even the possibility of legal redress to those left behind. Speaking of undying hatreds, when do you think American racism will end? We have gone t…

They’re Not Coming Back: The Religiously Unaffiliated and the Post-Religious Era

By Kaya Oakes

…tive religious teachings” about LGBTQ people are at 29 percent. The latter number, tellingly, is even higher among former Catholics. A full 39 percent of Catholics say they left the church because of its treatment of LGBTQ people. And the church lost huge numbers because of the sex abuse scandal—which drove away a full 23 percent of Catholics. But back to the idea that religiously unaffiliated adults will some day return to religious practice. Bot…

Muslim Voices Festival: A Teahouse, and a Shakespeare Play

By Hussein Rashid

…ant, filled with the smell of grilling meats and the soft sound of Central Asian music being piped in through the tiny sound system. It did have a very informal feel to it. That informality is what the Chaikhana of the Muslim Voices Festival was trying to recreate, and they did so successfully. A teahouse should bring to mind a relaxed atmosphere, a place where people sit on the floor, on chairs, on overstuffed cushions. They get up to get tea — i…

Future of Liberal Religion: A Counterculture Blooms?

By Jill K. Gill

…ter acceptance of pluralism during the 20th century. Today, even a growing number of evangelicals treat those positions as mainstream—but ecumenical institutions have struggled. During 1960s-era social transformations, conservative laity withdrew money and support from organized ecumenism. Meanwhile young liberal Christians often left it behind to do social justice work within a secular environment that offered quicker, bolder action. Others compr…

A Boundary-Busting Memoir of Love, Mental Illness, and Being Muslim in America

By Haroon Moghul

…anent night? And the third, Humans, takes place another three thousand years after that. All these stories are connected, and go back to the decisions made by these two friends, Mujib and Ali, and the families they found. I take inspiration from Muslim, South Asian, Dutch, Spanish, French and American history to create an entirely new universe. There’s alien Caliphs and medieval monarchies that never end, stretching far into the future, colonizing…

Kill Your Patriarchs: An Interview with Michael Muhammad Knight

By Hussein Rashid

…, in popular parlance) stance on religion. He associates mostly with South Asian immigrants, even going to Pakistan for a while, which, I believe, explains his ability to render the immigrant experience so well. He has a crisis of faith that happens as he learns about Shi’ism: I had been taught to revere that first generation. The Prophet had said that they would be the greatest Muslims of all time, seconded by the generation immediately after the…

Russian Politician Wants to Ban Apple CEO Who Says Being Gay is God’s Gift; Violence After Preachers Blame Liberian Gays for Ebola; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…that the unseemly, if not deeply pathological, reality that a significant number of these bishops, who cannot decide whether gays and lesbians have gifts to offer to the church, are themselves closeted gay men.” This weekend, the University of Notre Dame is hosting “Gay in Christ: Dimensions of Fidelity,” a colloquium designed to answer the questions, “What would be an appropriate pastoral strategy for Catholic parishes with respect to parishione…

4 (or 5) American Muslims For Ben Carson to Interrogate

By Haroon Moghul

…Cruz has criticized gay rights activists. Scott Walker, unions. Jeb Bush, Asian Americans. It’s been a nasty campaign and it’s only just begun. But so far, Carson and Carson alone pronounced on what a whole group of Americans aren’t qualified to do: Be President. (I suppose, since we American Muslims aren’t loyal Americans, Vice-President and, to be safe, Speaker of the House should be off the list, too.) Carson has since vacillated; sometimes he…

To Fight White Supremacy We Must Resist Essentialism: The Author Responds

By Andrea R. Jain

…white Americans practicing yoga should critically reflect on yoga’s South Asian roots, the history of colonialism, and the desire and power to appropriate from historically oppressed communities of color. I also raised some basic questions: could the most dreadful of corporate media and right-wing spin machines’ representations of public intellectuals teach us anything about ourselves and how we offer our scholarship for public consumption? Could…

Mother (Nature) Will Eat You: Lars von Trier’s Antichrist

By S. Brent Rodriguez Plate

…held cameras, rough edits that jar the viewers’ visual sensibilities, microphone booms that become visible in shots, and a precedence of minimalist staging, especially in Dogville and Manderlay—though both were striking in their lighting and set design. Antichrist alludes to these anti-beauty sentiments: There are a number of handheld shots, and some curious breaks with the 180-degree rule, but those are early on in the film and it becomes the con…