Everybody's Sacred Cows or Nobody's Sacred Cows? Equality for Impieties
By Austin Dacey F. M. Husain was hounded out of his native India…by Hindu conservatives outraged by his nude portaits of Hindu goddesses. Continue Reading →
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The Bullet That Doesn’t Hit You
By Maurice Chammah Nasser had…wanted the state to protect journalists from the market, but could that be done without making them slaves of the state?
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The Bullet That Doesn't Hit You
By Maurice Chammah Nasser had…wanted the state to protect journalists from the market, but could that be done without making them slaves of the state?
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I Don’t Speak Jive: the FLOTUS Speech
by Nora Connor I heard the sound of right-wing internal organs. hitting the floor in bloody lumps one after the other, as if she were Uma Thurman taking on Lucy Liu’s goon squad in Kill Bill. But was she? Continue Reading →
I Don't Speak Jive: the FLOTUS Speech
by Nora Connor I heard the sound of right-wing internal organs. hitting the floor in bloody lumps one after the other, as if she were Uma Thurman taking on Lucy Liu’s goon squad in Kill Bill. But was she? Continue Reading →
Bored at Work? We Can Help!
by Nora Connor For anyone who’s wearing out their go-to internet-based procrastination safety blankets, I’ve got your back! In the form of the Wikileaks U.S. Embassy cables Continue Reading →
A Human Right to Blaspheme?
by Austin Dacey Do you have a human right to blaspheme? Ask a philosopher and you may get two different answers. Continue Reading →
Salafism for Dummies
by Alex Thurston Suddenly, Salafism seems to be everywhere: mainstream Salafism, political Salafism, Wahhabist Salafism, Arab Salafism, Islamist Salafism, radical Salafism, and at least one instance of salafist-fundamentalist cage-fighting-ism. Continue Reading →
Balancing Act: Sectarian Leaders in Lebanon
by Irina Papkova Last week marked twenty-two years since the signing of the Taif Accords put an end to the last civil war…but external pressures are at work once more. Continue Reading →
Jewish Enough? The Saturday Oil-Pressers
by Janaki Challa The largest Jewish community in India…are descendents of persecuted Jews from Galilee who were left stranded on Indian shores by a shipwreck around the 2nd century BCE. Continue Reading →