https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to libyan revolution en https://religiondispatches.org/2012/09/24/rage-or-courage-youtube-terrorism-take-two What is it about rage that pervades so much thinking about Islam? Start by picking up the latest issues of Time and Newsweek—America’s airport reading—and talking to Google. Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:22:21 EDT Bruce B. Lawrence 33d6ed15-faf9-482e-a342-b398159e9061 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/09/18/where-are-blessed-peacemakers Why don’t we hear about nonviolence from the pulpit? There is a complex theology behind the Gospel message of activist, transformative nonviolence that is easy for a homilist to set aside in favor of “God-loves-you!” Sunday messages that demand little from believers beyond robust self-esteem and a vague acceptance of God’s expectation that we generally do right by others. Thus, dusted off during Lent and the Easter season, the premodern language of sin, suffering, sacrifice, and salvation, as Marcus Borg has argued and Pew researchers have tracked, are poorly understood by Christians themselves. Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:43:46 EDT Elizabeth Drescher 175539e2-1aca-4531-b198-594c1afdd0ae https://religiondispatches.org/2012/09/17/kindred-hatemongers-why-american-islamophobes-and-muslim-protesters-need-each-other Just as hate responds to hate, those whose political fortunes depend on the manufacture of hatred seem to need each other. Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:54:27 EDT Mark Juergensmeyer d657342b-9d10-45c3-b6a2-7767357e3e47 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/09/17/youtube-terrorism How did a B movie get rendered into Arabic, then used to justify an attack on American sites overseas? Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:48:25 EDT Bruce B. Lawrence 00242440-9090-43e6-9cf5-fd84283bdca3 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/09/17/romneys-foreign-policy-problem-product-his-mormonism An interview with Mormon Studies expert Patrick Mason. Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:34:42 EDT Joanna Brooks b0c80feb-7d5c-42ee-a5d2-87720317a9c7 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/09/12/who-sam-bacile Claimed writer and director of anti-Islam film that sparked extremist violence in Egypt and Libya. Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:42:37 EDT Sarah Posner d5d44b4b-6745-4529-8564-c968f4605b86 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/09/12/looking-libya-and-ourselves Violence comes in many forms Wed, 12 Sep 2012 09:16:41 EDT Hussein Rashid 051bb252-774c-4f75-ad46-c063fc582fb6 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/09/12/why-are-muslims-so-concerned-muhammad To say Muslims are offended by portrayals of Muhammad is missing the point… Wed, 12 Sep 2012 05:46:25 EDT Haroon Moghul ba8016ca-e222-4f54-be34-620f3e4c8c88 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/07/25/how-prevent-ethnic-cleansing-syria In the Muslim world, pluralism collides with democracy and sovereignty, which is far more interesting and alarming than the battle lines we’ve imposed on the Middle East—of secularists versus Islamists, of free-thinking liberals versus religious autocrats. Wed, 25 Jul 2012 02:02:16 EDT Haroon Moghul 3b6337a4-7c23-4e32-b2d9-403bec7680d5 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/04/17/dreaming-beyond-madman-reflections-revolution-libya The tragedy of a dictatorship is that they so eviscerate their countries that, even after they are gone, it’s hard for people to pick up the pieces and move forward. But I am hopeful in seeing the banner of the pre-Qaddafi monarchy rooted in the Sufi orders that led the resistance to colonialism. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 05:14:28 EDT Haroon Moghul e169135e-ca9e-4df5-8cd8-962348cc13bc https://religiondispatches.org/2012/04/17/6-reservations-about-us-intervention-libya I, like many others, have found myself unable to turn away from the Arab revolutions. As a strong believer in the egalitarian nature of the Muslim religion, and a fervent critic of common assumptions that are held about Arabs and Muslims, these revelations were a welcome confirmation of my… Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:46:57 EDT Haroon Moghul ade47b78-818f-46bb-bff5-2f58c1550eab https://religiondispatches.org/2012/04/17/jersey-shores-tripoli-mtv-and-arab-revolution Along comes Jersey Shore with its cast of self-described Italians. These are not the magical white folks of world-conquering, democracy-building myth-but they’re still “white”. They behave like the Museum assumes only people of my color behaved. The sum total of their television life is a kind of late-capitalist tragic anthropology: doing laundry to go to parties, in order to have sex. For me, it’s been tremendously liberating to know that people of my color and faith are not the only people who are embarrassing to watch on television. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:42:26 EDT Haroon Moghul 65512e50-1a12-4ed8-ac20-402949529e74 https://religiondispatches.org/2012/04/17/pornographic-war-gazing-why-we-dont-look-away It is easy to blame the war machine or the pornography industry, but the more mundane problem is with our addiction to visual thrills. What some people see as a lack of moral vision (watching a porn video, for example) is perhaps better approached as an amoral astigmatism, a lazy eye, a privileging of the visual over our other evolved senses. The thrill of watching may mingle with compassion for those being harmed, but unless you as a viewer do something to actually alleviate that suffering, you are only a voyeuristic addict, entranced by the power of the gaze. Tue, 17 Apr 2012 04:37:51 EDT Daniel Martin Varisco a60b11bf-0cfc-49eb-9116-3a6c27fb894a https://religiondispatches.org/2011/11/14/cains-twirling-ideas An epic choke on foreign policy knowledge—and that of his own base. Mon, 14 Nov 2011 06:46:32 EST Sarah Posner bdab6d83-712b-406a-b0f8-e080c295a2f7 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/10/27/shariah-islamic-law-misunderstanding-role-islam-libya It’s far more meaningful to ask who is interpreting Shari’ah; think of the argument over ‘what the bible says’ and you begin to get an idea. Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:55:36 EDT Haroon Moghul fed8736b-9188-4bfe-b212-153f4e7dc440 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/10/25/shariah-spring-media-gets-it-backwards If we read the Arab Spring as a zero-sum game between Islamists and secularists, we’re going to miss what’s happening; if we imagine Arab democracy will look like secular Western democracy, we will likely be disappointed. And if we assume reference to Islam and democracy reveals only hypocrisy, insincerity, or ideological confusion, we’re likely to be surprised. Tue, 25 Oct 2011 09:13:27 EDT Haroon Moghul 5665b1f5-92ca-4eae-ad1a-3f47644efcf5 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/03/30/shariah-egypt-intervention-libya RD contributor Haroon Moghul examines media portrayals of the role of Islam in the two North African nations. Wed, 30 Mar 2011 05:28:14 EDT The Editors 28bb83c4-bac2-42d9-9bc5-3c173fae76bf https://religiondispatches.org/2011/03/07/libyas-religious-leaders-take-surprising-position It’s your duty as a Muslim to rebel. Mon, 07 Mar 2011 09:31:08 EST H.A. Hellyer b95deca2-7851-4d76-a56f-14b1c513bea7 https://religiondispatches.org/2011/03/07/hagee-and-others-see-end-times-north-african-revolutions How does it fit the Christian apocalyptic narrative of Gog and Magog? Mon, 07 Mar 2011 09:30:45 EST Joanna Brooks 4613abf7-3e3a-4b93-b365-52ba31bbe02e