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Stronger Than We Look: Ten Tendrils of Hope for 2017

By Peter Laarman

…tring of people’s victories against kleptocratic regimes in Latin America, Africa and Asia (offering hope that operators of Trump’s stripe can’t always get away with it). 9. Bracing scholarship. This year gave us a further flowering of the important new scholarship that goes to the buried truth of White Male Violence Disorder and that also goes to the religious roots of same. I will mention just one new book that will shake the foundations for any…

What if Israel Were in Germany? An Alternate History

By Haroon Moghul

…ppelgänger world you created… The Arab states of the Middle East and North Africa are united in a democratic superpower—the UAS—with its capital in Riyadh. Persia, Kurdistan, and Turkey are independent democracies closely allied with the UAS. Israel, as you note, is located in central Europe; the story there is that after the Arabs beat Hitler, they broke Germany in two and gave the northern half to the Jews, something which the Lutherans and Cath…

The Next Islamists: The Wide Green Smudge That’s Changing Our World

By Haroon Moghul

…, such as the “Islamic Corridor”—that wide green smudge from Atlantic West Africa to Indonesia—how will America be affected by new Muslim interests? This is where Nasr’s timely contribution most clearly shines; in Forces of Fortune, Nasr explores the deleterious effects of colonialism (a topic on which Simpfendorfer is unfortunately silent) and then despotism on retarding Muslim politics. It’s no surprise Islam is so preoccupied with the West. For…

Arab Spring: Countering the Naysayers

By Maryam Jamshidi

…the multi-faceted nature of events unfolding in the Middle East and North Africa. Did you have a specific audience in mind when writing? I wrote this book hoping that anyone interested in the region, from the hobbyist to the expert, would find value in it. I worked hard to keep my writing clear and easy to follow, while presenting arguments I hope are still nuanced and insightful. Are you hoping to inform readers? Entertain them? Piss them off? I…

Would Gandhi Disband Occupy?

By Ira Chernus

…andhi’s program was especially vague in the earliest years of his work, in South Africa. To demand a detailed list of specifics from today’s Occupiers would be like making the same demand of Gandhi in the 1890s. Yet Gandhi must have known intuitively, even then, an essential truth he would later articulate clearly: The greatness of any society is not measured by its gross product, nor by the stellar achievements of its privileged few. The measure…

Four Reasons Why Egypt’s Revolution Is Islamic

By Zaid Hassan

…nfines of narrow realism.” As events unfold like a collapsing dam in North Africa and the Middle East, the questions flow. What is the nature of the revolution in Egypt? By extension, what do changes taking place in the Muslim world mean? What do they mean for the US? What does this mean for the West? Are we witnessing an Islamic Revolution? Is this Iran in 1979 all over again? Is Obama the new Carter? Should we be afraid? The underlying reasons b…

Did You Read About Conservative Judaism’s Anti-Black Antisemitic Smearing of Hebrew Israelites? Neither Did I

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…ts in the antebellum era and pre-enslavement religions of West and Central Africa, the preferred narrative of confused Southern negroes and Caribbean migrants appropriating authentic (read: White) Jewish identity takes precedence for those wishing to uphold White Jewish normativity. (Never mind that if the only necessary ingredients were Negro Spirituals and Prince Hall freemasonry there’d be a Hebrew Israelite congregation on every street corner…

The Radical Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Left’s Challenge Today

By Peter Laarman

…examples of U.S.-sponsored counterinsurgency: Venezuela, Guatemala, Peru, South Africa, Mozambique. Once he has placed the United States squarely “on the wrong side of the world revolution,” King delivers the gut punch—the part of the speech everyone remembers if they remember it at all: I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin…

For Trump Admin, Immigration is About Race and Identity

By Aryeh Cohen

…s, Jews, and Muslims) stretching across Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. The common denominator of these institutions is that they did not rely upon political boundaries to relieve suffering. The religious traditions of hospitality, refuge, and sanctuary created the vibrant multiform culture of diversity, welcome, and innovation that many of us claim as American. However, religious traditions of exclusion and purity rear their heads at r…

Dawkins and Hitchens Hope to Arrest the Pope

By Evan Derkacz

…tific falsehood is responsible for the deaths of countless AIDS victims in Africa; a man whose first instinct when his priests are caught with their pants down is to cover up the scandal and damn the young victims to silence: in short, exactly the right man for the job. The Vatican’s abhorrent actions over the years (including then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s documented role in covering up sexual abuse) make it exceedingly difficult to say anythin…