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The Anglican and the Evangelicals: Insights from the Sudanese Genocide

…’ and sisters’ keepers, wherever they may be. Loving our neighbor requires promoting peace and justice in a world marred by genocidal violence.” …and the Evangelicals Brad Phillips, who heads the Virginia-based Persecution Project, now lives in Kenya, and simultaneously serves as the Sudan country director for Voice of the Martyrs, an evangelical agency that since 1967 has focused on helping Christians in restricted countries, emphasizing communis…

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Updated: A Response to President Obama’s Speech in Cairo

…e shared, and our failure to meet them will hurt us all.…When innocents in Bosnia and Darfur are slaughtered, that is a stain on our collective conscience.” He then implicitly references the Qur’an again, to suggest it’s not about creating a world where everyone is the same, but where difference is meaningful without being divisive: And this is a difficult responsibility to embrace. For human history has often been a record of nations and tribes —…

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Are Muslims Nuts?

…oregrounded, and other realities (say, America’s intervention on behalf of Bosnians) are backgrounded or denied altogether. It may also be that they are unknown. In this reading, the Muslim world has been repeatedly menaced, subjugated, or brutally pounded by a malevolent West, which warns, say, of Iranian nuclear menace, even though it was the West that invented nukes, and the democratic and secular United States that used them. On civilian targe…

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Blackwater’s Free-Market Crusade

…r, DynCorp, were found in 2000 to have been organizing a child sex ring in Bosnia.) Freedom to fire at will, the statements suggest, mixes in Blackwater’s culture with experiments in sexual liberation. Battle for the Defense of Christendom John Doe #2’s testimony makes particularly troubling claims about more cosmic aspects of Prince’s leadership at Blackwater. Prince, he alleges, “views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Musl…

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No, Sunni and Shia Muslims Have Not Been Fighting Forever

…t, not to us. And it’s not about religion per se. We sided with Muslims in Bosnia and Albania. And in Afghanistan and Iraq, we fought against some Muslims even as we empowered other Muslims. But while religion isn’t foremost in many of our analyses and forefront in our motivations, many Muslims do perceive these same conflicts as religious. Because religion is more prominent in their worldviews. That’s why some people in the Muslim world link the…

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In “The Promise,” A Reminder That U.S. Apathy to Genocide Endures

…ven when we memorialize recent and catastrophic events like the Holocaust, Bosnia, or Rwanda, it is with a shake of our heads and the wonder that people could let this happen. It helps us to think we are neither the perpetrators nor victims of genocide, and we never will be. Yet, as the Rohingya are being cleansed from their ancestral land, as Syrian children are washed up like refuse on beaches, we still do not acknowledge the lesson that it take…

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You’re Either Committing Ethnic Cleansing or You’re Not

…its people and places. Jolie used regional actors, and the dialogue is in Bosnian. Hungary, where the film was shot, is a near approximation of Bosnia, though it subtly lacks in local color and feel (too much Austro-Hungarian and not enough Ottoman). But it is the intention here that matters, and such quibbles are minor. The bigger problem is that Blood and Honey seems to be several movies, few of which fit together, or even know what to do with…

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RDBook: Is Zionism Anti-Semitic?: Zizek’s Violence

…fortunately, it rings true. When genocide has become routinized (Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and now Darfur), it becomes necessary to find ways to criticize European “anti-anti-Semitism”—to point out that this posture actually ends up restraining debate about state-sanctioned discrimination, even mass murder. What makes pundits like Plocker so uncomfortable is that anti-anti-Semitism should be up for question at all, let alone critiqued—even in the…

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Breivik Sought to Create ‘Mirror Universe’ of EU

…not substantive. The instances Breivik approvingly cites (say, the war in Bosnia) pre-date al Qaeda’s prominence by years. To try to construct a chronology of responsibility is not going to clarify the reasons for this massacre; or give us ideas on how to prevent it. The reason Muslim and Christian extremism resemble each other is because they are products of the same global processes, which transcend and subsume religions and regions and even na…

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Catholic Groups Leading Mifepristone Ban Are Part of Century-Long Tradition Who See it as Patriotic Duty to Protect the Family

…med in Catholic settings. Although Catholic officials expanded an existing code of medical ethics in 1948 to include directives on contraception and abortion, Catholic hospitals didn’t share a unified ethical code until 1971. Reports of hospitals in some dioceses performing abortions and providing contraception to patients led the USCCB to publish a new version of the ERDs and require every diocese to adopt them. This would prevent what Father O’R…

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