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The Legacy of Bush, Gambler of Other People’s Fortunes, Is Still With Us

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…seems to be that we need money, a lot if it, and fast. The men who gave us Afghanistan, then Iraq, are now the same men who are trying to get us out of Iraq so that we can gamble in Afghanistan with larger stakes. It’s all a bit strange and surreal. Dostoevsky’s narrator has a keen nose for gambling. He could smell when someone was about to lose their shirt. He refused so much as to set foot in the casino when he sensed that his elderly friend and…

Countering the “Countering Violent Extremism” Program

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…hose lives have been damaged or destroyed by American military actions. In Afghanistan, the US required Navy Chaplains to give Koran lessons to citizens in an effort to cultivate particular understandings of Islam. A program called Voices of Religious Tolerance had US Marines taking Afghan elders and politicians from Helmand Province on a “collaborative influence program” tour to Amman, Jordan to learn about “life in a religiously tolerant country…

Global Islam, the Year in Headlines

By Qamar-ul Huda

…ms over 1,000 copies of the Qur’an and other Islamic Sacred Texts Burnt in Afghanistan by the US military. 2. YouTube Video “Innocence of Muslims” ignites protests in the Muslim world setting deep divisions between interfaith communities and liberal and orthodox Muslims. 3. Moro Islamic Liberation front and Phillippine government Sign Peace Accord regarding the four-decade conflict, which has cost over 150,000 lives. 4. Muslim Brotherhood in Egyp…

RDPulpit: Israel in Gaza: Right but not Smart

By Rabbi Michael Lerner

…dvisers to believe that it would be wise to shift the focus of that war to Afghanistan and/or Pakistan. Yet the strategy of domination does not and cannot work in the 21st century. The most significant contribution the new Obama Administration could make to Middle East Peace would be to embrace an alternative strategy: that homeland security is best achieved through generosity and caring for others. If the United States were to announce its embrac…

What Romney Didn’t Tell You about Mormonism at the RNC

By Joanna Brooks

…publican National Convention. “No mention of the men and women deployed in Afghanistan,” she said, echoing a concern voiced by conservative commentators like Bill Kristol. “If it’s not worth mentioning us in a national political convention, maybe we shouldn’t even be in Afghanistan.” Her husband faces possible deployment to Kandahar in February. That got me thinking. What other “we’s” and “us’s” got left out when the RNC scripted its sell of Mitt…

Civil Unions Battle Heats Up in Italy; Church Leaders in Malawi Defend Criminalization of Homosexuality; Report on LGBT Student Group Sparks Backlash in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…s Prepare Shelters for Gay Refugees and Migrants NBC News reports that LGBT groups in Germany are preparing shelters for gay refugees and migrants in the wake of reports of violence, including rape, against migrants from Iraq and Syria, “where ISIS militants are targeting or killing homosexuals.” Afghanistan: Petition Calls for Legal Protections for Religious, Sexual Minorities A change.org petition is calling for changes in the laws of Afghanista…

Rage or Courage?: YouTube Terrorism Take Two

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…Islam, but in the Muslim response to that assault. The difference between today and yesterday, between the Muhammad video and Rushdie’s Satanic Verses, is the rapidity and ubiquity of image-making. Images can be, and are, made and remade, remixed, and disseminated with lightning speed on the Internet. It’s no accident that there was a long period of ‘silence’ between 1990-2004, with comparatively few assaults on Muslim norms. The Internet was sti…

Can Interfaith Dialogue Cure Religious Violence?

By Lucia Hulsether

…ground sustained arguments in favor of ongoing military campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan; domestic spying programs; and the adoption of policies like the one that recently invoked to deny Dzhokhar Tsarnaev a reading of his Miranda Rights. Binary formulations, regardless of content, erase complexity. When we cast the Tsarnaev brothers as “the worst elements of our communities” who should be “separated from the rest,” we have desensitize…

The ‘Fake Christian’ Deflection and Contrarian Concern Trolling: How Not to Write about Evangelical Authoritarianism

By Chrissy Stroop

…observers’ eyes. In addition, with the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan and the rapid takeover of the country by the Taliban, white evangelicals’ status as the most anti-immigrant, anti-refugee religious demographic in the United States is receiving renewed attention. https://twitter.com/socofthesacred/status/1427973457703211012?s=20 With respect to Afghan refugees specifically, it should be noted that the National Association of Ev…

Howling at the Moon

By Amina Wadud

…tants more important than Muslim civilians and combatants with the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. We have a very different sense of the shared human community now, and we need to adjust accordingly. This year, I face a dilemma because it seems the most pressing needs are actually in my own family. Some jurists say the zakah cannot be given to one’s own family. I think the rationale was appropriate for the extended family networks. If we give to our…