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Forget History Channel’s The Bible, Meet Omar

By Haroon Moghul

…er Omar, the first Muslim polity expanded into Jerusalem, Damascus, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, and Central Asia. (Muhammad died in 632; Omar was Caliph from 634-644.) That’s some good television. It’s also surprisingly nuanced, considering what I grew up learning in Sunday School. Omar is one of the so-called “musalsilat,” series that are produced specifically for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Every night, after a) drinking, like Bosnians allegedly d…

Australia’s Harsh Refugee Policies Stirring Backlash; Malawi Court Sides With Pastors To Lift Moratorium on Sodomy Prosecutions; Uzbek President Says God Has Taken Gays’ Reason Away; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…to Preserve Marriage, the group has a task force of 400 people, and 9,000 signatures backing its petition for marriage to stay “a special union ordained by God between a man and a woman”. Cindy Samuels, mother of two, told a reporter, “Marriage should be a union ordained by God. I raised my children with Christian beliefs. If you give same-sex marriage the same definition, it will reorder socity. You can call it something else – a civil union.” C…

High Holidays Watch: Seth Rogen’s Latest Highlights the ‘American Pickle’ of Living with Death

By Shaul Magid

…tos of them on his wall, he shrugs, saying “I haven’t yet fit it into my design.” We soon learn that Ben’s parents died tragically in a car accident five years before and Ben is living so as to avoid dealing with that tragedy. Life becomes a way to avoid death. When Herschel hears of the tragedy he asks Ben to tell him about it in all its gory detail, so “we will become bound in the tragedy [of death].” Ben demurs. Who in 2019 talks like that? Bot…

Waterboarding in the Living Room

By Sarah Sentilles

…e PMS?” Although the torture captured on film at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq was presented as aberrant (the behavior of “a few bad apples”), released memos have shown again and again that torture and so-called enhanced interrogation remain part of US policy—sanctioned, supported, ordered, and rewarded. And although President Obama opposes torture and pledged to close it, the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp remains open and, as the ACLU reports, t…

Fr. John Dear, Dismissed from Jesuits: “It Is So Strange to Be Hated by So Many Church Leaders”

By Megan Sweas

…came more and more involved in the Republican Party, supporting the war in Iraq. Very few Jesuits espouse nonviolence either. We run 28 universities, all of whom train young people to kill through ROTC. There was a lot of pressure in the Jesuit order to stop me, and they stopped me, and I eventually I left. It is all very sad and tragic, but in many ways what happened to me was inevitable. I am still called like any other follower of Jesus to prac…

Why This Lie? Brian Williams’ Pulpit Fiction

By Peter Manseau

…is to put oneself at the center of a drama with clear stakes and ultimate significance. War may be hell, but to speak of Americans making war from the pulpit of mass media, one is required to speak of the sacred. Claiming proximity to this sacred, Williams makes its authority his own. As further examples of his creative memory emerge—from meeting the pope to witnessing the fall of the Berlin Wall—it becomes ever more clear that television news ma…

Beinart’s Indictment And The Evangelical Right

By Sarah Posner

…reflexively defends the Israeli government’s policies, but it is actively promoting the idea that the conflict there is not over land or politics, but is a clash of civilizations and religions. “Freedom” is not about human rights for all; it’s about Christianity ascendant. At the Freedom Federation Summit in Lynchburg, Virginia, last month, an entire session was devoted to “Israel, the Middle East, and Military Readiness.” (The event as a whole w…

Imagining Fear and Anxiety in Post-9/11 New York

By Haroon Moghul

…tal and real trees, we feel the excitement in the air as the name of the designer is revealed. Submissions had been anonymous up to that point, discussed and promoted by a jury selected to represent (some parts of) New York City. The excitement turns to tension, then to panic. The selected design has been produced by a Muslim, an American Muslim architect of some renown named Mohammed Khan, and the committee is flabbergasted. How can they present…

Mumbai, Five Months After: Searching for a Coherent Stance on Religious Violence

By Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad

…violence. Gradually after 9/11, and gathering force after the invasion of Iraq, the Left in the West found itself in a quandary over the appropriate response to these narratives. It was clear enough about what to do with Western triumphalism and the conjunction of neo-conservative nationalism and Christian evangelical fundamentalism: each could be critiqued by a post-ideological social liberalism, free of the historical weight of Marxism. But the…

By the Way: McNamara, Dead at 93, Lived Long and Rueful Life

By Randall Balmer

…ntary The Fog of War, as George W. Bush was gearing up for the invasion of Iraq. “I do not believe that we should ever apply that economic, political, and military power unilaterally. If we had followed that rule in Vietnam, we wouldn’t have been there,” McNamara said. “If we can’t persuade nations with comparable values of the merit of our cause, we’d better reexamine our reasoning.” Those familiar with Washington know that the Vietnam War Memori…