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Archives: Islam
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![Iraq Deployed Shiite Volunteers to defeat ISIL, but now has a Militia Problem](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045638im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/06/iraq-deployed-shiite-volunteers-187x137.jpg)
Iraq Deployed Shiite Volunteers to defeat ISIL, but now has a Militia Problem
Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) |. - The Iraqi government’s next big problem is coming into view: The group of powerful Shiite Muslim militias loyal to Iran seem to want to…![The top 4 Challenges facing the Arab World](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045638im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/06/the-top-4-challenges-facing-the-187x137.jpg)
The top 4 Challenges facing the Arab World
By Tarek Osman | (Project Syndicate) | - - LONDON – Fifty years after the Six Days War, the Middle East remains a region in seemingly perpetual crisis. So it is no…![Execution-Crazy Saudi Gov’t railroads 14 Shiite Dissents with unfair Death Penalty](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045638im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/06/execution-crazy-saudi-govt-railr-187x137.jpg)
Execution-Crazy Saudi Gov’t railroads 14 Shiite Dissidents with unfair Death Penalty
Human Rights Watch | - - (Beirut) – Saudi Arabia should immediately quash the death sentences of 14 members of the Shia community for protest-related crimes, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch…![Saudi v. Qatar: Will Turkish intervention cause Escalation?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045638im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/06/saudi-v-qatar-will-turkish-inter-187x137.jpg)
Saudi v. Qatar: Will Turkish intervention cause Escalation?
By James M. Dorsey | (Inter Press Service) | - - SINGAPORE (IPS) - Turkey’s parliament is this week fast tracking the dispatch of up to 3,000 troops to Qatar, home to…![Could ISIL attacks in Tehran plunge the Middle East into greater turmoil?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045638im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/06/could-isil-attacks-in-tehran-plu-187x137.jpg)
Could ISIL attacks in Tehran plunge the Middle East into greater turmoil?
By Mohammadbagher Forough | (The Conversation) | - - Iran experienced its first major ISIL attack on June 7, as armed men and suicide bombers targeted two symbols of the Islamic Republic…![US faces risks as Trump misreads the Middle East](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045638im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/06/us-faces-risks-as-trump-misreads-187x137.jpg)
US faces risks as Trump misreads the Middle East
Francis Ghilès | (OpenDemocracy.net) | - - Militarising the region further and taking sides in a recently concocted sectarian conflict will likely end in tears. Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, Saudi King…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045638im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/05/file-20170523-5782-1o7pzq7-187x137.jpg)
What is the Sunni-Shiite Divide into Which Trump just Stepped?
Ken Chitwood | (The Conversation) | - - In his address in Saudi Arabia on Sunday, May 21, while calling on Muslim leaders to lead the fight against terrorism, President Donald Trump…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045638im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/05/61GepBYfFnL._SY344_BO1204203200_-1-187x137.jpeg)
Was/Is there an Islamic Enlightenment? (de Bellaigue)
William Eichler interviews Christopher de Bellaigue | Informed Comment | - - Eichler: 1. In the conclusion to The Islamic Enlightenment you describe modern jihadists as “miracle-grow Muslims” who have been “incubated…![Trump on Islam: Neo-Orientalism and anti-Shi’ism](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045638im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/05/trump-on-islam-neo-orientalism-a-187x137.jpg)
Trump on Islam: Neo-Orientalism and anti-Shi’ism
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump's speech on Islam, written by notorious Islamophobe Stephen Miller, who used to organize Orwellian Two Minutes Hate sessions against Muslims at Duke,…![Revival of Iraqi Communism among Youth alarms Shiite Militias](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045638im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/05/revival-of-iraqi-communism-among-187x137.jpg)
Revival of Iraqi Communism among Youth alarms Shiite Militias
Mustafa Habib | (Niqash.org) | - - Last week’s kidnapping of seven activists in Baghdad could be another sign of increasing tensions between secular parties in Iraq and the country’s ruling religious…![Are Feminism and Islam Mutually Exclusive? Fighting Hislam](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045638im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/05/are-feminism-and-islam-mutually-187x137.jpg)
Are Feminism and Islam Mutually Exclusive? Fighting Hislam
By Susan Carland | (The Conversation) | - - Islam is not unique in having theological interpretations that centre on men. Christian, Jewish and Buddhist women (and men) have grappled with the…![Pope Francis, Islam and Peace-Building](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045638im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/05/pope-francis-islam-and-peace-bui-187x137.jpg)
Pope Francis, Islam and Peace-Building
Interview by Jayson Casper | (Informed Comment) | - - Dr. Kamal Boraiqa is a lecturer at al-Azhar University and a member of al-Azhar Center for Dialogue, the al-Azhar Observer for Combating…![Can Iraq’s Sunni Politicians agree on post-ISIL Future](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045638im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/05/can-iraqs-sunni-politicians-agre-187x137.jpg)
Can Iraq’s Sunni Politicians agree on post-ISIL Future?
Mustafa Habib | Baghdad | (Niqash.org) | - - "Iraq’s Sunni Muslims desperately need their politicians to present a united front and act in their interests. But the politicians cannot agree on…![Syria’s forgotten pluralism and why it matters today](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045638im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/04/syrias-forgotten-pluralism-and-w-187x137.jpg)
Syria’s forgotten pluralism and why it matters today
By Andrea Williams | (The Conversation) | - - The Syrian Civil War has been raging for six years. It has killed nearly half a million people and left over 12 million,…![Why We Need Political Islam](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045638im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/04/why-we-need-political-islam-187x137.jpg)
Why We Need Political Islam
By Shlomo Ben-Ami | (Project Syndicate) | - - MADRID – US President Donald Trump has put on the back burner an executive order that would designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a…![Al-Sadr: Russia, America and al-Assad should all get out of Syria!](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045638im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/04/al-sadr-russia-america-and-al-as-187x137.jpg)
Al-Sadr: Russia, America and al-Assad should all get out of Syria!
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Iraqi Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Saturday issued a broadside demanding that Russia and the United States withdraw from Syria and that strongman…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045638im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/03/Jesuits-at-Moghul-Court-1-187x137.jpg)
Is Trump right to doubt that Islam is a Religion?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka again declined to say on Wednesday in an NPR interview whether President Trump believes Islam is "a religion." He…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045638im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/03/image-20170224-22983-ttvs1f-187x137.jpg)
Why ISIL is Targeting Tolerant Sufi Islam
By Peter Gottschalk | (The Conversation) | - - On Feb. 16, 2017, a bomb ripped through a crowd assembled at the tomb of a Sufi saint, Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, in southeastern…![After Mosul: Can Iraq survive without a unified National Army?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045638im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/after-mosul-can-iraq-survive-wit-187x137.jpg)