These comments are, on the whole, atrocious and disturbing, for two reasons. First, there seems to be absolutely no interest or concern on the part of most NYTimes readers to comprehend...
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Muslim Attitudes
Comment by NYU assistant professor/faculty fellow Jeremy Walton on yesterday's New York Times article, "Koran burning in NATO Error Incites Afghans," (February 21, 1:39 pm):
Be Mine
By Jeremy Walton
On February 14th, 1989, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini sent what surely must have been one of the blackest Valentine’s greetings of all time to novelist Salman Rushdie. Invoking somewhat dubious legal and theological authority—as a Twelver Shi’a, Khomeini could hardly claim to speak for all of the world’s Muslims—he called for Rushdie’s death on...
America’s Muslim Anxiety: Lessons from The Third Jihad
The past week has witnessed an escalating political crisis within the New York Police Department, sparked by the revelation that over a thousand officers viewed an Islamophobic film as part of a training exercise. The Third Jihad (view trailer here) was produced by the Clarion Fund, a New York-based non-profit that first gained...
Making Alevism:
Lawfare, Secularism and The Secular
A response to Markus Dressler's essay, "Making Religion Through Secularist Legal Discourse: The Case of Turkish Alevism"
On a rather chill afternoon in March of 2005, I sat across from Ali Bey, the president of the Cem Foundation,...
On a rather chill afternoon in March of 2005, I sat across from Ali Bey, the president of the Cem Foundation,...Remembering Differently:
Coping with 9/11 Fatigue
by Jeremy F. Walton
9/11 fatigue is a fully comprehensible, affective response to the cadences of nationalism that have accompanied public commemoration of the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001. But this fatigue should not constitute the alibi for indifference, solipsism, or cynicism.
Several weeks after September 11, 2001, I participated in what was surely a...
Reactions to the Death of Osama bin Laden
On this day after the announcement that Osama bin Laden was killed by U.S. Navy Seals, we collect reactions from religion scholars and journalists, including Jeremy Walton, Noah Jaffe Silverman and Brigitte Sion.
Late last night, on a return flight from the Society for the Anthropology of Religion biannual meetings, I was stirred from my sleep...
Acknowledging the Lives of Religious Texts
Jeremy Walton moderated a panel sponsored by NYU's Institute for the Production of Knowledge last week. The event inaugurated a new series by Princeton University Press, "The Lives of Great Religious Books," and gathered Martin E. Marty (Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters and Papers from Prison),...
Disguising Islamophobia
This photo was taken yesterday by Jeremy Walton, assistant professor at NYU's Religious Studies Program, in downtown Manhattan where various groups gathered to protest a proposed community center or to march in support of it.
