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Iran, Israel, and Republican Presidential Campaigns: Myth versus Reality

By Sarah Posner

…ative consequences for the peace process: The full video is here. …

Conventional Wisdom: RNC/DNC Giving God a Bad Name?

By Peter Laarman

…ically wrongheaded this is to the cause of justice and peace in the Middle East; that is quite obviously afraid to talk candidly about grinding poverty in America for fear of shattering the illusion that we’re all just middle-class folks about to recover fully from a GOP-induced hangover; and one that showcases Sr. Simone Campbell in prime time (“I AM my sister’s keeper, I am my brother’s keeper!”) but that also makes sure she adds that her critiq…

Why Are Muslims So Concerned with Muhammad?

By Haroon Moghul

…(to say nothing of the long history of Western intervention in the Middle East and the traumatic aftereffects of colonialism, which could be a whole article itself). For one thing, Muhammad is dear to Muslim hearts in the way Jesus is to many Christians: He brought us enlightenment. But Muhammad is also dear to Muslim hearts because Muslims strive to be like him, to the extent of looking like him (and his close family and companions, with some…

Speaking with Palestinian-American Republican Who Confronted GOP at Debate

By Haroon Moghul

…so demonstrated their ignorance of a crucial part of the world. The Middle East isn’t exclusively Muslim; Hassan, for example, points out that he and his “massive family” are part of “a vast Palestinian community… in North Florida, nearly all of them Greek Orthodox or Catholic.” But Hassan gets the anti-Muslim bigotry, especially because it comes back to haunt him (he, an Arab Christian American, is tarred with Islamist Hamas). For those in the GO…

Because God Tells Me So; Do Jews Have a “Historic Right” to Israel?

By Shaul Magid

…enying the “historic” rights of others. The “historic right” claim has at least two sources. The first, of course, is the Hebrew Bible and its rabbinic interpretation that bases itself on a divine promise as the fulfillment of the Ancient Israelite covenant. There is, however, an important contextual distinction between the biblical claim and its rabbinic counterpart. The Bible, dictating the fulfillment of the covenant through the Israelite conqu…

Why We Won’t Let Jonestown (Or 9/11 or Sandy Hook) Die

By Kelsey Osgood

…hting racism is reminiscent of a barefoot Gandhi taking up residence in an East Bengali village after fighting between Hindus and Muslims threatened to destroy the region. Of the many new religious movements of the 1960s and ’70s, Peoples Temple is probably the only one that can boast an agenda that remains enormously relevant to us today. That its genesis was admirable makes the implosion of the dream that much more tragic. Following Fondakowski,…

Are Atheists The New Campus Crusaders?

By Katherine Don

…says Galef at SSA. “It comes down to which values we’re promoting. We are promoting values of critical thinking and acceptance.” Conflicting values on campus have led to unsavory events. Last year at Salisbury University in Maryland, the Atheist Society took offense when Cru students chalked a verse from the Bible: “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ They are corrupt, and their ways are vile; there is not one who does good.” This led…

NY Subway Killing a Case of Blind Hatred?

By Laurie Patton

…heard about the post 9-11 attacks on Sikhs as “rag heads” from the Middle East. But as Jack Mirkinson noted in HuffPo in the wake of the Oak Creek shooting, even news reporters have a hard time getting a “lesser-known” religious tradition right: A Fox News analyst asked if there had been any “anti-Semitic acts” in the past against Sikhs; CNN’s Don Lemon wondered if Sikhs have “traditional enemies,” or if the shooter had a “beef with the Sikhs”; a…

What’s Islamophobia, and Do I Have It?

By Haroon Moghul

…hose mind is already made up. Or you could, and it’d be like talking to Mideast Beast: The Scriptural Case for an Islamic Anti-Christ, Joel Richardson’s rather self-explanatory title. Islamophobia, as we will see, has its own histories, its own specialists, and its own echo chamber. Because of course it cannot exist in a world of peer review. Richardson’s book works like this: he has a conclusion in mind, and then searches, without any consistent…

Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools

By Hollis Phelps

…most approved and deadly-pistol, and that there may be an equal chance at least of their shooting as of being shot.” • June 8, 1867, New York City At Public School No. 18. A 13-year-old lad brought a pistol loaded and capped, without the knowledge of his parents or schoolteachers, and shot and injured a fellow classmate. • December 22, 1868, Chattanooga, Tennessee. A boy who refused to be whipped left school, and returned with his brother and a f…