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Are We Living Through World War III?

By Haroon Moghul

…er Middle East, there were no American combat deaths in the greater Middle East, and after which there have only been American combat deaths in the greater Middle East. In the late 1970s, after a series of coups, the Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan to prop up its preferred client government, and the United States worked with select allies to back fundamentalist movements on the ground, preferring the more religiously extreme. Afghanistan ha…

In The Daily Beast, Niall Ferguson Says: Bomb Iran

By Haroon Moghul

…to a great degree, that today has won so many elections across the Middle East; the role of that war in the Iranian revolution likewise should not be underestimated. The running theme of the Arab Spring, and much of regional politics, has been the recovery of sovereignty, dignity, and a respected and respectful place in the world. Being bombed, or watching people like you be bombed, every several years is the opposite of that. Ferguson thinks he’…

“Hem and Haw”: A Failed Syria Strategy

By Haroon Moghul

…mitted to overthrowing Assad, because we’re not sure if we like the Middle East better with or without him, and so we begin to reproduce a very bad and very dark romantic comedy. By proposing that we slap Assad on the wrist with a few days of air strikes, we are only continuing a pattern of embarrassing indecision. If the primary reason we are pursuing air strikes to war is because Obama drew a red line in the sand, then the fact is we look even…

Pope Denounces Gender Colonization; Indonesian Court Considers Islamist Request To Criminalize Homosexuality; Egypt’s Grand Mufti Says No One Has Right to Harm Homosexuals; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…aws “to ensure the ‘no’ camp can speak freely” during the campaign. Middle East: “Oriented” film examines life of gay Palestinians At Good, Yasha Wallin interviews Khader Abu Seir, the protagonist of the film “Oriented,” which examines the lives of gay Arabs in the Middle East. Wallin describes the movie this way: As the Israeli-Gaza conflict escalates in 2014, viewers follow Khader and his friends Fadi Daeem and Naeem Jiryes, all Palestinian, thr…

UNESCO on Religion, Culture and SOGI in Asia; Orthodox Family Sues to Stop Cremation of Israeli Trans Woman; Struggles of Iraqi Queer Activists; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…uential in the region, particularly in forms of Christian values and penal codes introduced to the region by missionaries during the colonial periods. Historical texts suggest that Christian missionaries were opposed to the sexual and gender diversity in many cultures of the region, and the influence of Christianity in the colonial periods has already been discussed. This opposition is still in place in some settings as demonstrated by the active…

Will International Criminal Court Bring Charges Against ISIS For Gender-Based Persecution?; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ecuted following this logic. But through a persistent rhetoric, powerfully promoted by Russia and its allies, LGBT people have come to embody all that is antithetical to so-called “traditional values.” And when that rhetoric lays the groundwork for ostracizing LGBT people, it takes little to tip the balance against their basic security—raids, round-ups, and purges are the violent consequence of political homophobia. Egypt: The Politics Behind the…

The Roots of the American Right’s Muslim Brotherhood Panic

By Sarah Posner

…in God’s standards.” Joel Beinin of Stanford University, writing at Middle East Channel, also notes how the Brotherhood was late to the protests, debunking the American right’s insistence that the Brotherhood is behind the protests, and therefore that toppling Mubarek would mean shari’ah law and all that: The Muslim Brotherhood, widely acknowledged as the largest and best organized opposition force in the country, abstained from the January 25 dem…

Could Orthodoxy Be Having its Vatican II Moment?

By Chrissy Stroop

…nd millennium of the Christian era (including the great schism between the Eastern and Western church, the tragic campaigns of the crusades, the Ottoman subjugation of much of the Eastern region, the oppressive Soviet regime of the 20th century, and so on) led to the gradual disappearance of the pan-Orthodox conciliar structure in exchange for a more defensive, even ethnic element in order to survive. Pan-Orthodox Councils were largely maintained…

Israel Will be a 2016 Evangelical Litmus Test

By Sarah Posner

…oes he or she have proven wisdom and experience in dealing with the Middle East issues, or is the candidate too new to the foreign policy arena? In light of yesterday’s terrorist attack on a Jerusalem synagogue, Nance, in a statement, calls Israel a “cornerstone” for the 2016 presidential nomination, adding, “continued violence in Israel and constant turmoil in the Middle East makes a clear and comprehensive foreign policy agenda a must for any po…

A One-State Solution for Israel and Why It Will Work

By Haroon Moghul

…live as second-class citizens. On the other hand, Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem, who number some 200,000, cannot vote; their neighborhoods have been annexed to Israel, even though international law and the international community recognize that East Jerusalem would belong to a Palestinian state, assuming it were to have existed. We need even more hands to write this story out: The West Bank is cut open and torn apart by settlements, many…