Our Perceptions of
Christianity and Islam -- including
Religious Persecution
Things to look up
Perceptions of Christianity:
- Early church persecutions, executions
- Church witch hunts, Salem
- Inquisition
- Destruction of the Cathars
- Church strength in Germany
- People burned during Henry 8 reign
- Origin of Crusades
- European overseas empires
- Violence in Islam
- Early Western views of Islam
- Boykin: My god is bigger than your god
Click here for advice on how to achieve accurate perception, from David Brooks in "The New York Times," Jan 13, 2014:
Articles
- "When Jews and Christians Believed in the Qur’an" by Emran El-Badawi on "Informed Comment," Jan 5, 2020
- "It’s Time to Indict Aung San Suu Kyi for Genocide Against the Rohingya in Myanmar" by Mehdi Hasan on "Lobe Log Update: Noteworthy," Aug 28, 2019
- "Trump’s Anti-Semitism Spawns Dangerous Reactions" by Mitchell Plitnick on "Lobe Log Update," Aug 28, 2019
- "Trump’s Disastrous Plan For The Muslim Brotherhood" by Emile Nakhleh on "Lobe Log," May 8, 2019
- "Religion on Display in Indonesia’s Election" on "Fareed's Global Briefing," April 16, 2019
- "Faith Politics on the Rise as Indonesian Islam Takes a Hard-Line Path" by Hannah Beech & Muktita Suhartono in "The New York Times," April 15, 2019
- "Pope Francis acknowledges abuse of nuns for the first time" by Shannon Vavra "Axios," Feb 5, 2019
- "The Qur'an and Modern Literature" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," c. Dec 17, 2018
- "The Latest Attack on Islam: It’s Not a Religion" by Asma T. Uddin in "The New York Times," Seot 26, 2018
- "Playing Politics With Religion" by James Dorseyon "Lobe Log," Sept 1, 2018
- "Amid an Anti-Muslim Mood, a Museum Appeals for Understanding" by Farah Nayeri in "The New York Times," Aug 17, 2018
- "Promoting Islamophobia in America" by Arnold Isaacs on "Lobe Log," June 13, 2018
- "Robert Morrison Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship to Study Islamic Influence on the Renaissance" by Tom Porter on "Bowdoin News," April 10, 2018
- "Mike Pompeo's Allies on the Anti-Muslim Right" by Peter Bienart on "The Atlantic," March 15, 2018
- "What Journalists get wrong about Islam" by Prashant Waikar on "Informed Comment," Feb 6, 2018
- "Who are Sufi Muslims and Why Do Some Extremists Hate Them?" by Megan Specia in "The New York Times," Nov 24, 2017
- "The Coming Muslim Century: Bad news for President Bannon" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," April 19, 2017
- "The Benedict Option" by David Brooks in "The New York Times," March 14, 2017
- "The Islamophobic Huckster in the White House" by Steven Simon & Daniel Benjamin in "The New York Times," Feb 24, 2017
- "The Social Scientific Case Against a Muslim Ban" by Sarah Lyons-Padilla & Michelle J. Gelfand in "The New York Times," Feb 18, 2017
- "All of Islam Isn't the Enemy" by the Editorial Board of "The New York Times," Feb 9, 2017
- "An Apology to Muslims for President Trump" by Nicholas Kristof in "The New York Times," Feb 2, 2017
- "Bannon Welcomed Islamophobes When CPAC Banned Them" by Eli Clifton on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," Feb 3, 2017
- "Trump Pushes Dark View of Islam to Center of U.S. Policy-Making" by Scott Shane, Matthew Rosenberg & Eric Lipton in "The New York Times," Feb 1, 2017
- "Frank Gaffney Is Behind New Anti-Muslim Interfaith Group" by Eli Clifton on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," Jan 26, 2017
- "'I Think Islam Hates Us'" by the Editorial Board of "The New York Times," Jan 26, 2017
- "Tragedy Made Steve Kerr See the World Beyond the Court" by John Branch in "The New York Times," Dec 22, 2016 (Click here for pdf.)
- "John Bolton’s Cozy Relationship With Anti-Muslim Hate Groups Should Disqualify Him From Public Service" by Eli Clifton on "LobeLog Foreign Policy," Dec 16, 2016
- "Did Medieval Muslims Invent Modern Secularism?" by Juan Cole in "The Nation," Nov 7, 2016
- "Flynn: Prophet Muhammad and Quran Are 'Incompatible' With Modernity" by Eli Clifton on LobeLog Foreign Policy," Dec 6, 2016
- "Imperial Life on the Potomac" by digby on "Hullabaloo," March 27, 2007
- "Is Lt.-Gen. Flynn Right that Islam is not a Religion?" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Nov 20, 2016
- "How to Polarize People" by Fareed Zakaria on "FareedZakaria.com," Dec 11, 2015
- "There are far more Muslims ready to fight for the West than against it" By Edward E. Curtis IV in "The Washington Post," Nov 20, 2015
- "Finding Peace Within the Holy Texts" by David Brooks in "The New York Times," Nov 17, 2015
- "Terrorism and the Other Religions" by Juan Cole Cole on "Informed Comment," Nov 15, 2015
- "In Syria, the US has nothing but bad options" by Stephen Kinzer in "The Boston Globe," Oct 27, 2015
- "Ottomans saved Hungarian PM Orban’s Ancestors; now he says Islam never part of Europe" by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Oct 17, 2015
- "‘Defending the Faith’ in the Middle East" by David Motadel in "The New York Times," May 23, 2015
- "Christians Loving Jews: Benjamin Netanyahu, John Boehner and America’s Evangelicals" by Frank Bruni in "The New York Times," March 7, 2015
- "The First Victims of the First Crusade" by Susan Jacoby in "The New York Times," Feb 13, 2015
- "Camel Bones and Jerusalem: Archeology Shows Bible Written Late, Full of Errors," a post by Juan Cole on "Informed Comment," Feb 6, 2014
- "In Files, a History of Sexual Abuse by Priests in Chicago Archdiocese" by Steven Yaccino and Michael Paulson in "The New York Times," Jan 21, 2014
- "Victims of the Christian Faith" by Kelsos on "truthbeknown.com," 1996
- "Texas Faith: Why isn’t the West getting any better at handling religious conflict? Or are we?" by Bill McKenzie in "The Dallas News," Sept 3, 2013
- "War Against the Poor: Low-Intensity Conflict and Christian Faith" by Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer on www.religion-online.org, March 15, 1990
- "Half Of Americans Say God Plays A Role In Super Bowl Winner: Survey" by Jaweed Kaleem on "The Huffington Post," Jan 16, 2014
- "Vatican Facing United Nations Showdown On Sex Abuse Record" by John Helprin on "HuffingtonPost.com," Jan 15, 2014
- “The Leadership Revival” by David Brooks in “The New York Times,” Jan 13, 2014 (See especially paragraphs 8-10, with Brooks' proposed second response or click here for the excerpt.)
- "Prejudices about Islam will be shaken by this show" by Karen Powers, a former nun, in "The Guardian," Jan 22, 2012
- "Cathars and Cathar Beliefs in the Languedoc" by James McDonald on "cathar.info," Jan 17, 2012
- "Frat House for Jesus: The entity behind C Street" by Peter J. Boyer in “The New Yorker,” Sept 13, 2010
- "Behind the closed doors on C Street" in "The Las Vegas Sun," July 19, 2009
- "Christian mafia: the Family at C Street" on "Examiner.com," July 19, 2009
- "Islam and the West: Deciphering a Contested History" by Ibrahim Kalin on "Oxford Islamic Studies Online" (undated)
- "Roots of Misconception: Euro-American Perceptions of Islam Before and After 9/11," a paper by Ibrahim Kalin of the College of the Holy Cross, 2004.
- Armstrong, Karen, Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence, 2014
- Holloway, Richard, A Little History of Religion, 2016
- "Inquisition" on wikipedia.org
- "Controversy" section of article about Franklin Graham on wikipedia.org
- Philomena (2013) - based on a true story about a world-weary political journalist who picks up the story of a woman's search for her son, who was taken away from her decades ago after she became pregnant and was forced to live in a convent