Afghanistan

Dispatch from the Lifejacket Graveyard near Eftalou Beach in Lesvos Greece

Posted on May 22, 2017May 30, 2017 by Jenn Lindsay

There is a “lifejacket graveyard” on the island of Lesvos in Greece, where Syrian and Afghani refugees flee from wars, departing from the Turkish shores 4 kilometers away. This is where ad... Read More

Contemplating America’s Reaction to 9/11

Posted on September 11, 2011September 12, 2011 by Rose Aslan

Here in the US, much of the rhetoric surrounding 9/11 is centered on never forgetting what happened on that tragic day. Thousands of articles, documentaries and programs have been circulating in the d... Read More

Bin Laden’s Dead. But, What Are We Celebrating, Exactly?

Posted on May 2, 2011 by Paul Joseph Greene

I am still sorting through the emotions and the facts swirling around the announcement that Osama bin Laden has been killed. What a turn of events! These are just my initial thoughts about terror, lo... Read More

Afghans Attack U.N. Building, Murder Workers and Each Other After Qur’an Burning

Posted on April 4, 2011April 4, 2011 by Gretchen Koch

Remember Terry Jones? Not the guy from Monty Python, but the Florida pastor who threatened to burn copies of the Qur’an last August in response to the building of the Cordoba House Islamic cultu... Read More

Bury the Bloody Hatchet: Secularism, Islam, and Reconciliation in Afghanistan

Posted on January 21, 2011January 21, 2011 by Journal of Inter-Religious Studies

When the US negotiated peace with American Indians just a few years after the American Revolution, they used religiously-inspired, culturally relevant symbols to “bury the hatchet.” However, the... Read More

Who Are We At War With Anyway?

Posted on December 15, 2010December 15, 2010 by Karen Leslie Hernandez

I lived in a small New England town called Sudbury in Massachusetts for years. About three weeks ago, Sudbury lost one of their own to the “war on terror.” Army 1st Lieutenant Scott Milley who w... Read More