Cyra Akila Choudhury (FIU): Ideology, Identity, and Law in the Production of Islamophobia. Ample religious freedom and the fear of Islam: Anna Glab reviews The New Religious Intolerance: Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age by Martha Nussbaum. Peter O'Brien (Trinity): Islamophobia and Europhobia in Europe: Politics in the Digital Age. Enough hate for everyone: Kenan Malik on how Muslims and Jews are targets of bigotry in Europe. Richard Seymour on the anti-Zionism of fools: However distorted and exaggerated, antisemitism is a real current in France that needs to be confronted. Mark Noll reviews The Global War on Christians: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Anti-Christian Persecution by John L. Allen Jr. The Reformation and what followed: A review of Christendom Destroyed: Europe 1517-1648 by Mark Greengrass. The ghosts of religious wars past are rattling in Iraq: James Stavridis on how the lessons of the European wars of the Reformation can help stave off the lethal mix of religious radicalization and politics. Scholar of Islamic history Suleiman Mourad discusses the formation and trajectory of the last great Abrahamic religion, tensions between ecumenicism and jihad, pan-Islamism and division of the umma, and a bleak present of recrudescent sectarianism. Eric William Palfreyman (SMU): The Qu'Ran, Radical Islam, and the Possibility of a Moderate Exegesis. A look at how Qatar’s support of Islamists alienates allies near and far. Laurie A. Brand on the Islamic State and the politics of official narratives. Richard Foltz reviews The Religion of the Peacock Angel: The Yezidis and Their Spirit World by Garnik S. Asatrian and Victoria Arakelova. Igor Volsky and Jack Jenkins on why ISIS is not, in fact, Islamic. If ISIS is not Islamic, then the Inquisition was not Catholic: Jerry Coyne on how there is no such thing as “true” religion. Obama's ISIS escalation riles Rightbloggers who want more Muslim-hate.
