Following reports of NATO personnel burning copies of the Qu'ran in Afghanistan, the United States Institute of Peace convened a…
New Peace Brief on the desecration of the Qur’an
Afghanistan
Responses to Qur’an burning in Afghanistan
Reports that NATO personnel had burned copies of the Qur'an first appeared in the New York Times on Tuesday, February…
“Traditionalist” Islamic activism
At the time of the 9/11 attacks, commentators trying to analyze Afghan support for Al-Qaeda put a great deal of…
Sikhism in Afghanistan
In The Guardian, Nushin Arbabzadah highlights Talibani intolerance of an often forgotten Afghan religious minority, the Sikhs.
Petraeus, Military Anthropology, and Religion
At PBS' Religion & Ethics Newsweekly site, George R. Lucas Jr wonders whether David Petraeus might “ramp up” efforts in…
Afghanistan’s women
At Reuters's Afghan Journal, Golnar Motevalli asks how reintegrating the Taliban might affect the already tenuous position women inhabit in…