March 2023 / Shabaan 1444
The latest issue of The Long View is out now, and can be read online here. Denijal Jegić looks at the EU's communiques on Palestine and unpacks the relationship between Europe's foundational ideas about itself and the settler colonial project of Israel.Linda Hyökki looks at the pitfalls of culturalized religion, using examples from Finland to set out how unthinking and often well-meaning attempts at intercultural communication can undermine the meaning of faith.Nargess Moballeghi argues that the fallout from the US Supreme Court decision to roll back access to abortion in the US, saw Muslims jump on either side of the debate without giving full consideration to the fact that Islam, in its various schools of thought, did not align with either on the issue.Omar Hijazi responds to a piece in the Muslim blogosphere, arguing that critiques of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, despite claiming to come from Islamic analysis, often finds itself replicating Western and indeed Islamophobic discourse.