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Ross Douthat’s Rosy Old-Time Religion

By Jerome E. Copulsky

…ation act of 1965), the growing wealth of Americans, and the waning of the East Coast WASP establishment. These factors, he claims, led to a weakening of Christian orthodoxy and its hold over the American spirit. The traditional churches responded by either capitulating to cultural trends or by exercising a culture warrior’s resistance. Douthat’s Heretics Gallery: Scholars, Pulp Novelists, and Conspiracy Theorists What did grow in this sterile so…

Muslim Stowaways
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Titanic: “Eurabian” Alarmism 2.0

By Haroon Moghul

…more were made refugees. Caldwell makes no mention of any of this, nor of Eastern Europe’s ancient Muslim communities. There have been Eastern European Muslims for longer than Protestantism has existed, and yet Islam is still, centuries on, the Other; notable only as immigrant victimizer. As a public intellectual one might expect that he has some interest in another perspective, that he might give a holistic account… Caldwell’s Other Crisis Thoug…

But Are They “The Good Muslims”?

By Haroon Moghul

…value judgments about Islam—and our relationship to a democratizing Middle East will not advance if we’re trapped in religious identity politics. Islam is a diverse, pluralistic faith, and religious debates between Muslims frequently go back to the Qur’an and Muhammad. This includes the many Muslims who espouse less politicized or even apolitical interpretations of Islam. Thus, to define Salafis as those who emphasize the Prophet Muhammad sounds,…

Heaven On Earth: A Non-Hysterical History of Shari’ah

By Haroon Moghul

…recalls a deeper point. Every system of criminal justice strikes a balance between two imperatives—the urge to condemn wrongdoers and the concern not to punish in vain—and the techniques to pursue those goals typically evolve in similar forms across different cultures. One consequence is that there are fundamental similarities between the legal aspirations recorded in the Qur’an and hadiths and those expressed by later Western jurists: the notion…

Is “Israel-Firster” Anti-Semitic?

By Sarah Posner

…matters the last time we met on Bloggingheads, and in particular the chasm between the reality on the ground there and what Wildman has called a “mythical” vision of Israel as the land of milk and honey. Remnick: Although Israel as imagined by Theodor Herzl and built by the generation of David Ben-Gurion was never intended to be a replica of the Anglo-American model—its political culture, even now, is closer to that of the European social democrac…

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

…at regard, Ted Strickland, a certified Methodist preacher, was on somewhat better ground actually quoting Matthew 6 and denouncing Romney as someone whose riches have hardened his heart and distanced him from any identification with the Reign of God, in which those who are now first will be last, and vice versa. To me at least, the cringe factor over creeping religiosity was mitigated by the broader populist appeal, the volcanic “us vs. them” core…

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

…I’m here to tell you we do exist. Awkward silence. The jarring discomfort between a discourse of intolerance on this very subject, and the presence of the object of such intolerance could only resolve itself in a tepid, sporadic, nearly embarrassed applause. It’s one thing to hate, and another thing to do so in such close proximity to the hated—especially when that person demands to be identified alongside you. Now what would you expect the candi…

LDS Church Launches New Website Calling for Greater Openness and Understanding on LGBT Issues

By Joanna Brooks

…possibility. Kendall Wilcox, a gay Mormon and maker of the documentary Far Between, “I am encouraged by the fact that the Church is promoting the value of listening to and empathizing with the lived experiences of gay people as they reconcile faith and sexuality.” “Up to now so many families have been torn apart by gay issues,” says Erika Munson, founder of Mormons Building Bridges. “It is heartbreaking if a parent thinks God wants her to turn he…