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This World Refugee Day, Rising White Nationalism Meets the Largest Refugee Population in History — Which is No Coincidence

By Sara Kamali

…such as the Srebrenica massacre took place. Indeed, the wars in Rwanda and Bosnia have many similarities. Yet, the media coverage differed greatly. Fair-skinned Bosnians were contextualized, personalized, and humanized, while Black Rwandans were depicted as the undeserving Other. Whatever the color of our skin, we’re living on the same planet that’s currently beleaguered by overlapping crises, including racism, wars, the climate crisis, inflation,…

Forget the Pope—We Need a New Caliph!

By Haroon Moghul

…actually Muslim black American leader. (VI) Amra Babic, Mayor of Visoko, Bosnia The Good: There’s a precedent for female Caliphs. In the mid-600s, the Khawarij movement elected female leaders, on the grounds that piety mattered more than anything—more than ethnic origin, race, or gender. Babic is a practicing white European woman in a scarf representing 51% of the world’s gender. How many Muslim leaders are women? Bam! Plus: she’s the elected ma…

What Can We Do About Crimea?

By Haroon Moghul

…opic.) Because of Serbian complicity in the ethnic cleansing of Croats and Bosniaks, it wasn’t a hard war to sell. But Kosova mattered more to Serbs, arguably, than Bosnia did, many seeing it as the spiritual homeland and national touchstone for their peoplehood. In 1389, some 610 years before that war—a number Muslims might identify with, for entirely unrelated reasons—Ottoman forces inflicted a massive defeat on the nascent Serbian state, making…

The “G-Word”: Genocide’s Slippery Nature

By Tom Hogan

…adopt the same tired tribal and ethnic arguments that didn’t hold water in Bosnia or Rwanda. These students aren’t hypocrites—they’re just further evidence that history is clean and current events are messy. Political math tells them there are many reasons to stay out of today’s genocides and only one reason to intervene: that it’s the right thing to do. Another problem for ethicists in dealing with genocide is that their response process often do…

Sex Work: In Bed with the Religious Right

By Dagmar Herzog

…anges from the Armenian genocide in the 1910s via Auschwitz and Algeria to Bosnia in the 1990s. The horrific sexual violence in the former Yugoslavia, and the international recognition that the rapes were war crimes, has prompted more research into sexual violence in prior wars. But wars have often also provided opportunities for joyful consensual romances and topsy-turvy crossing of boundaries. Both sides of sexuality need to be better understood…

Religion Comes to its Senses

By Brook Wilensky-Lanford

…purposes…but when we get down to the nitty-gritty of it, the similarities between traditions can be difficult to sniff out.” Telling the history of religion through objects rather than beliefs offers an interesting corrective to a lot of the ways we hear religion discussed in public discourse. I sat down with Plate to find out more about what he wanted to accomplish. I’m curious about the composition of the objects…did you audition other choices…

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

By Joel Schalit

…the Holocaust can redeem them. Even though it is impossible to distinguish between Judaism and Zionism the way that Zizek does, it is not unreasonable to conclude that Jewish nationalism indulges reflexes that ultimately promote the figure of anti-Semitism. Not in the conventional sense we have become familiar with from the Left—that Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians inevitably stokes hatred of Jews—but because so many apologists for this pol…

The Anglican and the Evangelicals: Insights from the Sudanese Genocide

By Frederick Clarkson

…tment, he said he was told that their policy was one of “moral equivalency between the two sides.” Smith protested: “SPLM-North members are not bombing people indiscriminately, driving Arabs off their lands and out of their homes nor going door-to-door to identify their perceived enemies and execute them. The Government of Sudan’s military forces are.” “Some are trying to down play the overwhelming responsibility of the Sudanese government for the…

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

By Hussein Rashid

…risis cannot define all past and all future interactions. The relationship between Islam and the West includes centuries of coexistence and cooperation, but also conflict and religious wars. More recently, tension has been fed by colonialism that denied rights and opportunities to many Muslims, and a Cold War in which Muslim-majority countries were too often treated as proxies without regard to their own aspirations. Moreover, the sweeping change…

Are Muslims Nuts?

By Haroon Moghul

…volutionary regime was attacked by a dictatorial Saddam, who we aided and abetted. Why were we okay with the latter as an ally, however instrumentally, and so opposed to the former? What moral difference was there—indeed, Saddam killed far more. Why Do We Hate Them? We should be careful not to allow the Ayaan Hirsi Alis of the world suggest their own crude and half-formed narratives, which are selective, and thus as dangerous as the narratives of…