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Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Lurid Picture of Nigeria’s Muslims in Newsweek

By Patrick J. Ryan, S.J.

…spared no one in the government or in the Muslim establishment of northern Nigeria in his denunciations of vice. Nigeria’s head of state at the time, President Shehu Shagari, a Muslim, put down the Mai Tatsiné revolt by ordering the Nigerian air force to bomb certain Muslim urban centers where they were holed up. Boko Haram may well be a throwback to the Mai Tatsiné revolt, though not all the evidence is in. I also think it’s premature to attribut…

Mormons Fight Marriage Equality in Mexico; Is Catholic Church Italy’s Anti-Gay NRA?; Nigerian Anglicans Cut Ties With UK Diocese; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…enerally and its impact on LGBT people: Religion is of great importance to Nigerians. According to the Pew Research Center, Nigeria is almost evenly split between Christians and Muslims. Many Nigerians continue to practice local, indigenous religions alongside their professed adherence to Islam or Christianity. Generally speaking, the forms of Islam and of Christianity that are practiced in Nigeria today tend to be fundamentalist and most intolera…

Global LGBT Recap: Homogeopolitics; Dalai Lama Says Gay is OK; Pope Says Civil Unions May Be

By Peter Montgomery

…hism and continues to preach it from altars around the nation during mass. Nigeria: Anglican Church Officials Required to Take Anti-Gay Oath In Nigeria, where a new law expanding criminal penalties for homosexuality has led to violence against LGBT people, the Anglican Church of Nigeria is reportedly forcing people seeking official church positions to swear an anti-homosexualiy oath. “I declare before God and his Church that I have never been a ho…

American Anti-Gay Campaign in Africa Opposes “Fictitious Sexual Rights”

By Warren Throckmorton

…tional, recently encouraged delegates attending a law conference in Lagos, Nigeria to resist the United Nations’ calls to decriminalize homosexuality. Keynoting the Nigerian Bar Association Conference, Slater told delegates that they would lose their religious and parental rights if they supported “fictitious sexual rights.” One such “fictitious right” is the right to engage in same-sex sexual relationships without going to jail. According to an e…

Global LGBT Recap: Nigeria Jails Gays, Russian Orthodox Spox Calls for Criminalization Referendum

By Peter Montgomery

…sion talking about the LGBT people being less than human. For example, the number two person in the state broadcasting company – actually now he’s the number one person – hosted a show devoted to the question of whether it was enough to protect our children to ban homosexual propaganda or whether more needed to be done. He argued that more needed to be done. He said and we need to outlaw blood and sperm donations by them. And if they die in car ac…

Global LGBT Recap: Religious Leaders Support Persecution as Countries Vie in Homophobia Olympics

By Peter Montgomery

…t been contacted by two brothers in their 30s who have went into hiding in Lagos,” he said. “Vigilante groups are hunting them down, asking for huge ransoms.” “Nigeria is now legally sanctioning and its laws are encouraging persecution by both the state and its citizens against LGBT people,” said Mac-Iyalla. This week Canadian officials reportedly canceled a state visit by President Jonathan that had been scheduled for February. Also this week, a…

Why the Next Archbishop of Canterbury Should Be African

By Jesse Zink

…s in Nigeria. At one point, he looked likely to scale the hierarchy of the Nigerian Church until he criticized the decision by Nigerian bishops to boycott the 2008 Lambeth Conference, the decennial gathering of Anglican bishops from around the world. Idowu-Fearon has continued to urge senior Nigerian bishops to remain in conversation with Anglican leaders from around the world, and been excluded from the corridors of power in the Nigerian Church a…

The Kidnapping of Nigerian Girls, A Primer

By Gordon Haber

…ner by emailing their Representatives to ensure that the offer to help the Nigerian government is not an empty promise. Nigerians, however, do not want the United States to play Super Cop and are wary, since many of America’s more high-profile interventions have become centers of conflict. Recently a new group has been formed to help girls from the region get their lives back, but it is not yet registered. In the meantime, Americans can donate to…

Global LGBT Recap: Ugandan Law Unleashes Vigilantes, Anti-Gay Americans Want to Boost Homophobia Exports

By Peter Montgomery

…an, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) Kenyans. “He could not do that in Lagos (Nigeria).” Kushner also quotes Reverend John Makokha, director of a Kenyan gay rights alliance: “The source of homophobia is the Church,” said Makokha, the reverend who works with churches and mosques throughout Kenya to promote acceptance of gays. He said he and fellow activists spend most of their time convincing families of LGBT individuals that “Having an LGBT ch…

Orthodox TV Channel Offers Gays One-Way Ticket Out of Russia; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…rthodox activists and modeled after Fox News, offered to pay for a one-way ticket overseas for gay people who want to emigrate. The channel was funded by Konstantin Maofeev, a billionaire known as “God’s oligarch” who dreams of Vladimir Putin becoming a Tsar. More from the BBC: In a video on its social media channels this week, Tsargrad TV called on gay people to compete for a one-way plane ticket overseas. “Just recently, California—the most libe…