by editor | May 25, 2010 | Analysis, Counterterrorism, Education, Islam, Religion
by Steven R. Corman For some time people who think about the problem of terrorism have faced a puzzling question: Why is it that some Muslims who hold fundamentalist or radical beliefs about Islam become violent, while others don’t? New research shows that the...
by halverson | May 18, 2010 | Analysis, Government, Islam, Movements, Muslim Brotherhood, Politics, Publications, Religion
by Jeffry R. Halverson The following is a summary of some arguments from my new book, Theology and Creed in Sunni Islam: The Muslim Brotherhood, Ash’arism, and Political Sunnism, published by Palgrave Macmillan. It offers an explanation of why fundamentalist...
by halverson | May 7, 2010 | Counterterrorism, Diplomacy, Government, Image, Islam, Media, Popular Culture, Religion, State Dept.
by Jeffry R. Halverson Apparently I wasn’t the only one thinking about the diplomatic potential of Muslim hip-hop when I posted a blog about it for COMOPS Journal back in September of 2009. Recently we heard from Tyson Amir, one of the Muslim artists that I featured...
by editor | Apr 23, 2010 | Popular Culture, Religion
by Steven R. Corman Readers of this blog may have followed the story this week of death threats issued by the website Revolution Muslim against South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone for their inclusion of supposed images of the Prophet Muhammad in part one of...
by editor | Dec 15, 2009 | Framing, Language, Religion
by Mark Woodward In a comment on my recent post “Why ‘Moderate Islam’ is the Wrong Language,” Mel repeats the shopworn claim that Islam is a religion of violence. He suggests that I should “do my homework” and read the Qur’an. He implies that...