Spinning Ft. Hood
RD associate editor Hussein Rashid scrutinizes a cross-section of reactions to the Ft. Hood massacre, from those eager to blame Islam to a number of Muslim-Americans.
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Faith or Trauma: Questioning the Motivation of the Fort Hood Shooter
The picture of Major Nidal Hasan grows murkier—but it is a mistake to assume that we understand the role of his faith in the massacre at Fort Hood.
Read MoreAlleged Fort Hood Shooter Is Muslim. So What?
That doesn’t stop rumor, innuendo, and profiling.
Read MoreIn Wake of Ft. Hood Tragedy, Few Recall Good Muslim-American Soldiers
Those who denigrate the service of Muslims in the US military only compound the tragedy.
Read MoreReligious Right Leader Claims Hasan Motivated By “Animus Toward Christians and Jews”
Rick Scarborough uses occasion to claim hate crimes law persecutes Christians.
Read MoreConservatives Stoke Fear of Fifth Column
Claim that alleged shooter took orders from the Muslim Brotherhood straight out of the Islamophobia playbook.
Read MoreThat Mercenary Feeling: What the Apparently Unlimited Use of “Contractors” Says About American Empire in Afghanistan and Iraq
Nothing like dropping in a lot of trigger-happy hired guns to win hearts and minds, right?
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Does War Make Sense? Science and Religion on the Battlefield
From thermodynamic war, to cybernetic battle, to the emergence of the “chaoplexic,” a new book by Antoine Bousquet explains what war means in the modern era.
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A Scholar Responds: Scripture as a Weapon
A complement to Gary Laderman’s column on the gun-as-sacred-object: scholar Lou Ruprecht’s scriptural encounter with the Second Amendment and the NRA in a gun debate gone astray.
Read MoreThe Myth of “King David” Petraeus and Iraq
The words of our top general in Iraq—words I’ve described as myths—are those that the president says will determine his war policy.
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