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How Obama Made Gun Control A Religious Freedom Issue

By Sarah Posner

…d up getting killed by guns are also protected, rights including religious freedom, and freedom of assembly in public places that far too often have become gruesome sites of massacres. It’s telling that daily accountings of gun deaths, of lives ruined by loss or disability, of children killed in classrooms, have not changed the rights calculus of gun control opponents. It’s still about their rights, and someone else’s rights are just an infringeme…

Sharing the Bad News of Donald Trump’s ‘Theology of Glory’

By Matthew Dodrill

…ence Jordan, the founder of an interracial community called Koinonia Farm. Jordan, who described his community as a “demonstration plot” for the Kingdom of God, asked his brother, Robert, to assist him in the struggle against the racial injustices of the Jim Crow South. Robert was keenly aware of the community’s hardships: Local citizens boycotted the farm, the Ku Klux Klan bombed the produce stands, and ominous letters flooded the mailbox. The co…

ISIS, ISIL or Daesh? Either Way, Obama Gets it Right

By Haroon Moghul

…eater Syria, an historic region which includes Palestine (and now Israel), Jordan, Lebanon, and modern-day Syria. The question is, did ISIS mean Syria or greater Syria? Some have translated the group as “the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria,” while others, including our government, translate the group’s name as “the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant,” indicating the terror movement’s ever more expansionist ambitions. They’re not just stopping at…

Status Updates at the End of the World: The Religious Imagination and Our Latest Apocalypse

By Spencer Dew

…ul find their way to the ancient Nabatean capital of Petra, the Rose City, Jordan’s most famous archaeological site. “Petra is the one-and-only place of safety” for the next three and a half years of Tribulation, declares the Petra—Place of Safety website, which identifies Petra as “the singular ‘place prepared for her in the wilderness’ for the Woman of the End Time (Revelation 12:14).” This figure, identified as “all the Holy Spirit Sealed belie…

When I Have Fears The Middle East May Cease To Be

By Haroon Moghul

…unisia and Turkey test the boundaries of secularism and faith. Morocco and Jordan contend with traditional monarchy and modern statehood. But as I watch the latest news from Egypt, that the country’s parliament has been dissolved by a Mubarak-era court, I wonder: Has the revolution ended before it began? (Revolutions are, by definition, simply movements around the wheel: The end is the beginning is the end.) The Islamists made a big mistake in con…

Will International Criminal Court Bring Charges Against ISIS For Gender-Based Persecution?; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…gal equality: The government continues to retain Section 377A of the Penal Code, which criminalizes sex between men. The law is sandwiched between codes that ban sex with corpses (Section 377) and sex with animals (Section 377B) in the Penal Code, indication of official attitudes towards homosexuality in the wealthy city-state. Convictions under 377A allow for two-year prison terms. In a bid to placate both liberals and conservatives, the governme…

Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

By Sarah Posner

…and Islam as director of the Ethics and Public Policy Center’s Program to Promote and Protect America’s Freedom. Santorum, who is considering a presidential run, depicts an American battle against radical Islam as a civilizational war against “Christendom.” The theological warriors include Jewish groups as well. “Shari’ah is an Arabic term referring to a legal framework to regulate public and private aspects of life based upon specific Islamic te…

Huckabee Calls For Civil Disobedience, Utterly Misreads MLK, Jr.

By Peter Gathje

…uples. The third criterion Dr. King identifies is that “an unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal.” For same sex couples to have legal access just like heterosexual couples…

‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…: Independent justice reform group criticizes Aceh’s harsh anti-LGBT legal code The Jakarta Post reported on April 1 that the Institute for Criminal Justice Reform “has lambasted the Aceh administration’s Islamic criminal code bylaw, or Qanun Jinayat, saying it could potentially provoke discrimination and over-criminalization of LGBT communities and other vulnerable groups.” The Aceh province is governed by the conservative Islamist legal code. No…

Gandhi, his Grandson, Israel, and the Jews

By Shalom Goldman

…ibowitz of Hebrew University said that for him the question was not how to free the territories from Israel, but rather, “how to free Israel from the territories.” A Palestinian Gandhi? Among Palestinian intellectuals, both violent and nonviolent opposition to Israeli rule were among the possibilities discussed in the first two decades after the 1967 War. Among those who have advocated nonviolent resistance and have therefore been dubbed a “Palest…