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Which Islamists?: Religion and the Syrian Civil War

By Haroon Moghul

…ge and sympathies Gaza was receiving while their conflict hardly receives any. Hence, despite their support for the Palestinians, the latest Israeli operation only confirmed for many Syrians that they have been abandoned. Iran’s support for Hamas didn’t really complicate things. Assad was Hamas’ main patron until recently and despite their dislike of him, many Syrians still supported Gaza and Hamas. What do you want Americans to know about Turkey,…

Talmud v. Torture: The Jewish Case Against “Enhanced Interrogation”

By Benjamin Weiner

…real or perceived, have trumped tselem elhoim in the hearts and minds of many. Though a few Jewish organizations have welcomed the release of the “torture memos” as a positive step forward, many others have kept silent, perhaps still unable to decouple concerns for Israel’s security from the “war on terror” mentality cultivated over the past eight years. Prophetic ideals are not always sufficient to fully extricate a threatened population from the…

Goldstone 2.0: God Plays No Favorites

By Jill Jacobs

…dom. In the biblical liberation narrative, the Israelites have barely left Egypt when God warns them against mistreating sojourners and other vulnerable populations. “If you afflict them in any way,” God says, “if they cry out to me, I will surely hear their cry.” (Exodus 22:23) In explaining this verse, the medieval commentator Rabbi Moshe ben Nachman (Ramban) imagines God saying, “I save every person ‘from the hands of those who are stronger tha…

International “Religious Freedom” Agenda Will Only Embolden ISIS

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…ht the perception of a choice between religious freedom and religious tyranny rest in a misunderstanding of both of these supposed alternatives? Today the IRF lobby, many IGOs and NGOs, foreign policy bureaucracies, and most of the international media relies on an understanding of religious freedom as a stable human right, legal standard and social fact that can be measured and achieved by all communities. Individuals and governments are expected…

Women in the Mosque

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…hreatening atmosphere. Women imams who work hard to gain the acceptance of their community will eventually turn the tide against blind conservatism, especially if their numbers are above a tiny minority. Eventually, the boy’s club will disband, not with a bang, but with a whimper….

The Problem With An Evangelical Petition Calling White Nationalism ‘Heresy’

By Daniel Schultz

…nationalism a heresy is not helpful for many reasons, not least because many of the 1/6 insurrectionists were themselves Christians, and there’s no standard method to determine who’s a good Christian and who’s not. CPAC: Hold my beer: Me: … Okay, so let’s clear a couple of things up. First, the “radicalization of evangelicals” isn’t “creeping,” it’s pretty well advanced at this point, as illustrated by the claim itself: Its roots are in the inext…

Storytime with David Brooks: In Which the Liberals’ Favorite Conservative Gets Lost in a Lily-White History

By Peter Laarman

…the stated wish of Frederick Douglass to be included in the American destiny, and, finally, to the waves of immigrants seeking to make their own exodus from oppressive cultures elsewhere. Brooks cites this story’s “many virtues as a national organizing myth,” including the way it “welcomes in each group.” He concludes by blaming lefty academics for trashing the national story and portraying U.S. history as “a series of power conflicts between opp…

On Using Religious Language in Public, Right and Left

By Daniel Schultz

…e Bible has rather a lot to say about “aliens” and “strangers,” little if any of which is based on loving your neighbor per se. The people of God are commanded to treat foreign residents justly as a matter of their history and identity. Moreover, practicing hospitality reflects the very nature of God. Leviticus says: The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens i…

The Heresies of Christopher Hitchens

By Austin Dacey

…to be confused with the cause of ending Islamist ideology and theocracy. Many of those in most active service of the latter cause are not self-identifying atheists but dissident Muslims and members of other minority faiths. Take for example, the Baha’i and the Copts of Egypt, who are relegated to second-class status; the Ahmadiyya Community, a large Muslim minority victimized by Pakistan’s blasphemy laws; or revisionist legal scholars like Abdulla…

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America Appears to be Heading for a Religious Civil War

By Nilay Saiya

…ases of mass religious violence around the world in settings as diverse as Egypt, India, Myanmar, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. At first blush, it may seem that the United States shares little in common with these developing countries. Yet I have found unsettling similarities. In all these countries, the widespread adoption of a more militant approach stemmed centrally from fears that a historically and culturally dominant religious group was in danger…