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Parameters
Autumn 2006
Raymond L. Bingham |
Bridging the Religious Divide Academicians, east and west, hotly debate the fundaments of the war on terror. In our nation's capital, decision-makers and renowned scholars meet regularly to posit the pros and cons of U.S. foreign policy.   |
Salon.com
September 24, 2001
Janelle Brown |
Terror's first victims When fanatics like the Taliban seize control of Islamic countries, women are the first to suffer... |
Reason
June 2006
Cathy Young |
The Jihad Against Muslims Radical Islam poses problems for the West, from within and from without. But if our response turns to bigotry directed at all Muslims, it will leave little reason for hope. |
Salon.com
September 11, 2001
Janelle Brown |
"Purge our society," online bigots shout Post-disaster threats and expressions of racism bubble up on the Web... |
Salon.com
December 4, 2002
Laura McClure |
What would Mohammed do? Geraldine Brooks, an expert on the role of women in Islam, says the "haters of beauty" behind the Miss World riots misrepresent what is a "pro-sexuality" religion. |
Salon.com
September 14, 2001
Joan Walsh |
Too much God? When the Rev. Jerry Falwell blamed the ACLU and other liberals for Tuesday's attack, he proved he's America's answer to the Taliban. But that doesn't mean there's no place for God in our expressions of national mourning... |
Parameters
Spring 2007
Dale C. Eikmeier |
Qutbism: An Ideology of Islamic-Fascism If we are to know our enemy in the war on terrorism we must first recognize that regardless of the vintage or variety of militant Islam it is the "ideology" of the group or sect that serves as its center of gravity. |
Reason
September 2005 |
The Iconoclast Salman Rushdie discusses free speech, fundamentalism, America's place in the world, and his new essay collection Step Across This Line. |
Reason
October 2004
Cathy Young |
Beyond Belief The idea that U.S. politicians should keep their religious faith private may seem outrageously intolerant. But is it not equally outrageous that a secularist figure cannot express his views honestly without committing career suicide? |
Salon.com
July 7, 2000
Jake Tapper |
God is their copilot Both born-again, Bush and Gore have made this the most God-fearing presidential race in 100 years. But their faiths have led these men in two completely different directions. |
Salon.com
October 30, 2001
Suzy Hansen |
A Jew in the mosque A self-described "average Israeli" talks about his daring journey to pray with the Holy Land's Muslims and Christians -- and why Arafat cannot head a Palestinian state... |
Reason
June 2007
Cathy Young |
Theocons of the World, Unite A prominent pundit wants American conservatives to make common cause with Muslim reactionaries. |
Reason
November 2007
Rogier van Bakel |
'The Trouble Is the West' Best-selling memoirist and former member of the Dutch parliament, Ayaan Hirsi Ali on Islam, immigration, civil liberties, and the fate of the West. |
Salon.com
September 26, 2001
Jake Tapper |
Islam's flawed spokesmen Some of the groups claiming to speak for American Muslims find it impossible to speak out against terrorist groups... |
Reason
June 2003
Jodie T. Allen |
God Only Knows: The conflicting demands of wartime prayers You gotta feel a little sorry for God these days. The hotline from the White House has been hopping off the heavenly hook; the pope has been urging his flock to "persevere in unceasing prayer"; cries of "Allahu Akbar" echo from the streets of Gaza to those of Baghdad. |
ifeminists
August 18, 2004
Dirk Verhofstadt |
Muslims Need Critical Thinking - Irshad Manji With her book The Trouble with Islam the Canadian journalist and lesbian feminist joins the growing number of female Muslims that condemn the oppression of women in the Muslim world. |
Parameters
Spring 2004
Matthew J. Morgan |
The Origins of the New Terrorism A history of terrorism and where it's headed. |
Reason
January 2005
Chris Lehmann |
Among the Non-Believers The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason, by Sam Harris derides the callow apocalyptic temper of the monotheistic traditions, while effectively seeking to bully readers into accepting nuclear Armageddon as a justified response to rampant fundamentalism. |
Salon.com
October 22, 2001
Max Garrone |
Fundamental problems Religious writer Karen Armstrong explains why Muslim nations have difficulty with democracy and the qualities that all forms of fundamentalism share... |
Salon.com
March 20, 2002
Suzy Hansen |
"Jerusalem Calling" by Joel Schalit A disillusioned young Israeli living in the U.S. warns the American left that it's too reluctant to criticize religious fundamentalists -- including George Bush... |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2007
Cathy Young |
Jerry Falwell's Paradoxical Legacy The death of televangelist Jerry Falwell in May at age 73 drew the curtain on a paradoxical career. Falwell was a founding father of the Christian right, which has succeeded in uniting religion and politics to a degree unthinkable in the late 1970s. |
Reason
April 2008
Ronald Bailey |
The New Age of Reason Is the fourth great awakening finally coming to a close? |
Parameters
Summer 2004
P. W. Singer |
The War on Terrorism: The Big Picture In the fight against terrorism, are we deterring more terrorists than are being trained for the future? Are we spending so much money trying to capture them, that we're really getting behind? |
Salon.com
October 18, 2001
M. A. Muqtedar Khan |
A memo to American Muslims It's time for us to search our souls. How can the message of Muhammad become a source of horror and fear? How can Islam inspire thousands of youth to dedicate their lives to killing others? |
Reason
May 2003
Jesse Walker |
Inside the Spiritual Jacuzzi What JewBus, Unitarian Pagans, and the Hot Tub Mystery Religion tell us about traditional faiths |
Salon.com
August 22, 2001
Robert Scheer |
Dog days for God It's been a rough summer, taking the blame for senseless limits on stem cell research and killings on both sides in the Middle East... |
Salon.com
April 5, 2001
Suzy Hansen |
Islam's black slaves The author of a book on the 1,400-year history of the other slave trade talks about the power of eunuchs, the Nation of Islam's falsehoods and the persistence of slavery today... |
Reason
January 2001
Cathy Young |
God Talk The First Amendment vs. freedom of speech... |
Inc.
December 2006
Alan Wolfe |
Guest Speaker: Worshiping at Work - Religion - Adam Smith Bringing religion into your company can be a test of faith - but not in the way you might expect. |
Salon.com
August 29, 2000
Gary Kamiya |
Holy Joe Lieberman's God-fearing sermon was a cute political move -- and a debasement of both religion and civil society. |
Salon.com
February 17, 2001
Laura Miller |
The new victimology More on the Brooklyn Museum of Art's display of "Yo Mama's Last Supper." The Catholic League depicts critics as prejudiced and their ideas as hate crimes. |
Reason
March 2002 |
Letters Incompatible Islam?... Liberty sans Paradox... |
Salon.com
December 12, 2001
Norah Vincent |
It's not just Hamas It's time for America to stop coddling the Palestinians -- they're bloodthirsty bigots who would have exterminated the Jews if they were in charge... |
Salon.com
September 25, 2001
David Rieff |
There is no alternative to war Blame-the-U.S. pacifism misses the point. Bin Laden wants to eradicate Western modernity, not liberate Palestine, and the U.S. has no choice but to fight him... |
Salon.com
November 20, 2000
Amy Standen |
Faith in America What does religion mean now? Is it a mystical experience, a collection of social protocols or just common sense? |
Salon.com
October 23, 2002
Damien Cave |
Dying for God The author of "The Martyrs of Columbine" on the strange and sometimes violent collision of religion and politics. |
Reason
April 2005
Cathy Young |
A Wave of Hot Air A great tragedy like last December's tsunami might not be a good time for any kind of philosophizing, religious or secular---particularly philosophizing by safe and well-fed people about a disaster that doesn't touch their own lives. |
Salon.com
November 21, 2000
David Rubien |
Rev. Billy Graham At 82, the Elvis (and Marshall McLuhan) of preachers is still the king of ecumenical evangelism. |
Salon.com
May 13, 2002
Laura Miller |
Death rattle? Sept. 11 may have been the last gasp of militant Islam -- but while it's dying, it could strike again and again... |
Parameters
November 2004
Philip Seib |
The News Media and the "Clash of Civilizations" "For the first time in history, global politics is both multipolar and multicivilizational." As the balance of power among civilizations shifts, the relative influence of the West is declining. |
Psychology Today
Jan/Feb 2008
Bruce Grierson |
An Atheist in the Pulpit Public identity and private belief are never more at odds than when a preacher loses his faith. |
Salon.com
September 5, 2000
Samuel G. Freedman |
Why Jews hate Lieberman's God talk Jewish Americans sometimes have a hard time telling the difference between discomfort and discrimination. |
ifeminists
March 18, 2003
Wendy McElroy |
Iraq War May Kill Feminism as We Know It Western feminism will be forced to confront its Eastern counterpart, which is, in significant ways, a mirror opposite: Islamic feminism. The encounter is likely to change the definition of feminism itself. |
BusinessWeek
May 23, 2005 |
Getting Your Religious Terms Right Can't tell the difference between the evangelicals and the seekers? Confused by the prosperity gospel? Here's a glossary to help you. |
TIME Asia
September 20, 2010 |
Inbox Muslims and Mosques... Double Vision... A Difficult Diagnosis... |
Reason
December 2001
Charles Paul Freund |
2001 Nights The end of the Orientalist critique... |
Parameters
Autumn 2005
Harvey, Sullivan & Groves |
A Clash of Systems: An Analytical Framework to Demystify the Radical Islamist Threat The United States must understand the implications of its leadership in the global system, and how to use this position to demonstrate to moderates in the Islamic world why they should join us rather than attempt to beat us. |
Salon.com
July 29, 2002
Michelle Goldberg |
Fundamentally unsound Left Behind, the bestselling series of paranoid, pro-Israel end-time thrillers, may sound kooky, but America's right-wing leaders really believe this stuff. |
Parameters
Winter 2006/2007 |
Review Essays Joseph C. Myers, The Quranic Concept of War... George H. Quester, Asia's Nuclear Dilemma... Larry M. Wortzel, Resolving China and Taiwan's Differences... |
Parameters
Spring 2005
Christopher Henzel |
The Origins of al Qaeda's Ideology: Implications for US Strategy If American strategists fail to understand and exploit the divide between the establishments and the revolutionaries within Sunni Islam, the United States will play into the radicals' hands, and turn fence-sitting Sunnis into enemies. |
