Under the Flag of Islamism
Christian minorities in the Middle East fear new regimes
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Turkey and the Middle East in the Aftermath of the Arab Spring
Lessons learned from a lecture at Harvard on Turkey as a model for the Arab democracies.
The Democratic Divergence
As authoritarian regimes have crumbled in the Arab World, so too has the gulf that once separated politics from religion.
Sandra Korn on Swamy’s Freedom of Speech
440 Harvard students have signed a petition calling for the firing of Harvard Summer School instructor Subramanian Swamy after his recent article for an Indian newspaper that advocated forcing all Muslims to admit to having HIndu ancestors in order to vote. Harvard Political Review writer Sandra Korn, one of signers of the petition, explains her position on the issue. Although [...]
Humza Bokhari on Cain’s Politics of Hate
Herman Cain, the outspoken 2012 GOP presidential candidate has had a thing or two to say about the Islamic faith, and most of it has not been positive. His comments, which even advocate banning mosques, worry the HPR’s Humza Bokhari. While Cain may say that he believes in the separation of church and state, Bokhari points out that “the trouble [...]
Pizza and Paranoia: Cain’s Politics of Hate
Herman Cain washes down his politics like he washes down his pizza: with a large glass of Haterade.
Weighing in: Rep. Peter King is a Threat to National Security
Radicalization may be a danger, but Peter King is making it worse.
Tarina Quraishi on Rep. Peter King as the New McCarthy
Representative Peter King’s new Congressional hearings on the radicalization of American Muslims have inspired numerous comparisons to McCarthyism. King’s spotlight on Muslims may unintentionally cause a new surge of support for the community, writes Tarin Quaraishi in The Crimson. While a majority of Americans currently support King’s actions, “[a]s the hearings proceed and presumably continue to generate civil liberty concerns [...]
Purging Peretz
The Martin Peretz issue, it seems, is not going away. At least, that’s what the Undergraduate Council would like us to believe. Most students and faculty have moved on, for better or worse, and most probably aren’t aware of the UC’s latest legislative achievement: a bill that “fully condemns” the University’s decision to accept donations in Peretz’s honor. But the UC bill deserves our attention, [...]
Where Miseducation Meets Tolerance
The Cambridge School Committee recently decided that, beginning in the 2011-12 school year, schools will close for one Muslim holiday each year. On the heels of two events that paint America as an increasingly Islamophobic nation, those being the controversial Ground Zero “mosque” and the lunatic antics of that pastor in Florida, the School Committee’s refreshingly tolerant decision couldn’t come [...]
Harvard’s Selective Anti-Bigotry
This column was originally published in the Sept. 30 Harvard Independent. It responds directly to Max’s blog post from the previous week. Harvard’s position on the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, banning the group from campus until “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) is overturned, has always struck me the wrong way. It just doesn’t make sense to punish ROTC cadets for [...]
Marty Peretz, the Harvard Crimson, and Anti-Muslim Hysteria
I was disappointed to read The Crimson’s editorial this morning regarding Martin Peretz and the Harvard research fellowship that is apparently going to be endowed in his name. Peretz, the editor-in-chief of The New Republic, recently wrote on his personal blog that “Muslim life is cheap, most notably to Muslims” and that he could not “pretend that [Muslim-Americans] are worthy [...]
More on the Mosque: Religious Freedom is Important, But…
One non-bigoted case against the erroneously-named “Ground Zero mosque” seems to go something like this: “Religious freedom is legitimate and important, and the promoters of the planned community center have a constitutional right to build the complex in Lower Manhattan. But still, the community center should be built somewhere else, out of sensitivity to earnestly held objections, and out of [...]
ADL Disappoints on “Ground Zero Mosque” Issue
The manufactured controversy over what has ludicrously come to be called the “Ground Zero Mosque” has a lot of depressing aspects. But easily the most surprising and, for me, upsetting development is that the Anti-Defamation League, the Jewish human rights organization, has sided with Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, and the other opportunistic GOP pols who are exploiting this issue. A [...]
