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Sam Harris and the New Islamophobes, Deconstructed

By Hamdan Azhar

…appropriated from Perle, Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Fukuyama in which American military dominance, paired with Silicon Valley solutionism (brilliantly deconstructed as a corporatist regressive farce by Morozov and others) combines with Randian objectivism to usher in a new era of Pax Americana—with the silicon chip as the golden calf at the altar of modernity. To wit, liberals are now some of the most egregious proponents of indefinite detention, the…

Waging Patience, Not Violence

By Asma Afsaruddin

…ic and it is this kind of literature that has fostered the notion that the military aspect of jihad is its most important one. Jurists typically were concerned with issues of state security and international law and therefore the legal manuals customarily dealt with jihad through a Realpolitik lens. If we are to achieve a more holistic understanding of what jihad is all about, we have to canvass many more different genres of texts, starting of c…

Egypt Goes After Gays to Silence Islamist Critics; South Africa’s ‘Open Mosque’ is Closed; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…turing the wedding video as a sign of the moral decline in Egypt under the military-backed regime of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who ousted it from power last year with the help of the army. Egyptian officials have been enforcing morality laws with a renewed zeal almost since Sisi took power. According to human rights activists in Egypt, at least 77 people have been arrested in well-publicized cases of “debauchery” or “violating public decency…

How to Slow Down the Rush to War: What Obama Should Do About Syria

By Aryeh Cohen

…ter he gassed the Kurds in Iraq; it would not still be arming the Egyptian military after its coup and murder of thousands; it would not be arming Israel without demanding that Israel end the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and create a Palestinian state living in peace with Israel. The U.S., finally, would not have waited until one hundred thousand Syrians were killed to begin contemplating action against Assad. Neither can nor should we be…

UPDATE: Air Force Not Persecuting Christians After All

By Rob Shryock

…airmen can say whatever they want, whenever they want.” Ouch. However, the military determined neither Monk nor his commander would be punished, which is kind given Monk’s very public, very willful attempt to tarnish their reputation. Perhaps they simply were trying to avoid generating more controversy, which would have been a savvy PR move on the part of the Air Force. Indeed, the right-wing media will likely lose interest in Monk’s story now th…

Why Did Egyptian Judge Call Muslim Brotherhood Followers of the Talmud?

By Mohamad Elmasry

…discourse and political policy. In order to justify both the July 3, 2013 military coup and the subsequent campaign to eliminate the Muslim Brotherhood from public life, the Egyptian military regime and a sycophantic media industry have portrayed the Brotherhood as treasonous, fundamentally un-Egyptian, criminal, and, importantly, not truly Muslim. Since the coup, Egyptian media have described the Brotherhood as a “cancerous tumor,” “foreign agen…

Breivik’s Manifesto on Islam vs. “Christendom” as “Demographic Warfare”

By Sarah Posner

…tes, is “not a religious organisation but rather a Christian ‘culturalist’ military order.” He continues, it is “essential to understand the difference between a ‘Christian fundamentalist theocracy’ (everything we do not want) and a secular European society based on our Christian cultural heritage (what we do want).” Breivik blames the “multiculturalists,” and, in a twist that I touched on yesterday, also blames Hitler for giving rise to these “po…

Anti-Gay Celebration in Uganda; Weddings in England; ‘Francis Effect’ at the Vatican

By Peter Montgomery

…of England: Prime Minister David Cameron faced vocal opposition from some members of his Conservative Party. The Church of England also objected, and was given an exemption from conducting same-sex ceremonies. But in a shift in tone ahead of the weddings, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, leader of the world’s 80 million Anglicans, signaled the Church of England would mount no more resistance to gay marriage among churchgoers as Parliament h…

First They Came for the Brotherhood . . . Egyptian Gov Seeks to Criminalize NGOs

By Austin Dacey

…l invests a “Coordinating Committee” of government officials—including two members of the security establishment—with broad authority to monitor and control the activities of NGOs by approving or rejecting their licensing and funding, disqualifying potential board members, annulling board resolutions, even dissolving entire associations by administrative decree pending a court order. The bill prohibits NGOs from engaging in trade union activity, p…

Pastafarian Rights, Israeli Rosa Parks, Orthodox
Jewish P.I.

By Michael J. Altman

…tion law. The US House used a defense spending bill to defund training for military chaplains after the repeal of DADT, the goal being to prevent any gay marriages from being performed on military bases. An Ohio Bishop put a stop to parishes and schools in his dioceses supporting the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation because the foundation might someday support stem-cell research. American Sikhs continue to be mistaken for terrorists and att…