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A Tiny Little Mecca for
the West

By Haroon Moghul

…too big, too overwhelming, and perhaps not quite Western enough to do what Bosnia can. Bosnia is small enough to put in your pocket, and kind enough to want to; it is easy to explore, and beautiful enough to fall in love with. There is something strange about Bosnia that way. Tuesday night at Sarajevo’s Gazi Husrev Beg mosque, the main Ottoman monument, the congregation is rows deeper than I expected. The worshippers are either old or young. The m…

The Threat to Democracy Runs Deep, But Mathematics Could Address the Abominable State of Representation and Voting

By Ismar Volić

…Electoral Maps, and Representation Ismar Volić Princeton U. Press April 2, 2024 Following similar elections in Slovenia and Croatia the previous spring, this was Bosnia’s first general election while it was still a constituent republic of Yugoslavia, a country whose socialist-era days were clearly numbered. Three ethnic parties, representing Bosnian Muslims, Croats, and Serbs, swept the election and formed the new seven-member presidency. The dre…

A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné

…rumpian candidate for Congress in 2020. (Feucht will be much in the news in 2024, because of his campaign with Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA youth organization to promote Donald Trump.) Some claim that Feucht is not NAR (or say nothing about his affiliation at all). However a simple look at his bio shows otherwise. Feucht was a volunteer worship leader at Bethel Church, headed by Apostle Bill Johnson, and went on to form his own ministry Burn 2…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…s concern for making distinctions between the Jewish situation and that of Indians in South Africa and India. Buber addresses the Mahatma respectfully: I have been very slow in writing this letter to you, Mahatma. I made repeated pauses—sometimes days elapsed between short paragraphs—in order to test my knowledge and my way of thinking. Day and night I took myself to task, searching whether I had not in any one point overstepped the measure of sel…

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Project 2025: How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

By Peter Montgomery

…hange-20230730.html#loaded. [64] “Agenda 47,” Donald J. Trump for President 2024, https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47. [65] Donald Trump, “Agenda47: The American Academy,” Donald J. Trump for President 2024, November 1, 2023, https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/agenda47-the-american-academy. [66] Charlie Savage, Maggie Haberman, and Jonathan Swan, “Sweeping Raids, Giant Camps and Mass Deportations: Inside Trump’s 2025 Immigration Plans,” The N…

A Debate Rages in India Over Conversion, Secularism, and “Spiritual Violence”

By Murali Balaji

…spike in social unrest. Despite the complex nature of identity politics in India, one thing is more apparent: the unease with which Indians of all faiths are dealing with the conversation about conversion, as well as its ramifications beyond the country’s borders. As Pawan Deshpande and Padma Kuppa note, the discussion about ghar wapsi should be broadened to include the international implications of conversion politics in India. If evangelical gro…

Dispatches From the Site of a Massacre

By Haroon Moghul

…religious lines. The Catholic Bosnians identified as Croats, the Orthodox Bosnians as Serbs, and the Muslim Bosnians didn’t know where to go (otherwise, religion aside, Serbs, Bosnians, and Croats are the same people). Soon the war revealed gaunt prisoners behind barbed wire and rape camps, suggesting that Europe was retracing the Second World War. But the Serbian paramilitaries weren’t Nazis or Soviets. They had no mighty army behind them. And…

Anti-Gay Celebration in Uganda; Weddings in England; ‘Francis Effect’ at the Vatican

By Peter Montgomery

…and simplification, to the deep demographic and moral crisis.” Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina: LGBT Life on Europe’s ‘Frontier’ Liam Hoare at Slate examines the precarious lives of LGBT people on “the European Union’s frontier,” where “people’s identities are defined by their ethnicity or religion, in opposition to other ethnicities and religions.” Because Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina hope to join the European Union, LGBTQ people there are at lea…

Marriage Equality Coming To Taiwan In Spite of Religious Objectors?; Anti-Gay Ruling Sought By Indonesian Islamists Threatens Women & Poor Couples; LDS Church Launches New ‘Mormon and Gay’ Site; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ed that it has been providing materials to anti-equality groups in Mexico. Bosnia-Herzegovina: LGBT people challenged by ‘patriarchal and homophobic culture’ Maya Shwayder reports for DW that, while Bosnia-Herzegovina moves toward joining the EU, many LGBT people are “living in a patriarchal and homophobic culture.” The story recounts a series of attacks on LGBT groups and spaces in recent years, and reports that the country has accepted internati…

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Putin’s ‘Year of the Family’ Declaration Blends Russian Nationalism with the Far-Right Rhetoric of the Global Pro-Family Movement

By Irina Smolevskaya

…outhern Poverty Law Center, “World Congress of Families,” Accessed March 6, 2024; Political Research Associates, “Profiles on the Right: World Congress of Families,” November 4, 2013; Stroop, “A Right-Wing International?” [27] Neil Datta, “Tip of the Iceberg: Religious Extremist Funders against Human Rights for Sexuality & Reproductive Health in Europe,” European Parliamentary Forum for Sexual and Reproductive Rights, June 2021. [28] Pronatalism r…