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Birtherism, Conspiracy Theories, and the “Christian Nation”

By Sarah Posner

…ifying the opposite of “biblical truth”: he spent part of his childhood in Indonesia, a Muslim country; his mother married men of color who weren’t American; he says he’s Christian, but doesn’t “obey” God; he might be Muslim; he is Muslim; he’s allowing shari’ah law to subvert the Constitution; he’s a socialist; he’s a secularist; he’s a secular socialist; he might be the Antichrist; he’s a fake Christian; he’s an inadequte Christian; he’s a secre…

Mr. President, Your Papers Please: The Birther Inquisition

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…his mother. He was born in Hawai’i, and at age six his mother moved him to Indonesia. Period. But those facts won’t make this debate go away, and neither will the President’s birth certificate. The President should think a bit harder about that, about what is really being said—about him and about this nation—so that he can make these links explicit and then attack them at the roots. This he has failed to do. The cause for greater concern is what I…

Turkey and Egypt: Islam’s Future?

By Haroon Moghul

…e across West Africans studying Qur’an—and speaking Turkish. Tourists from Indonesia, India, Egypt, and other Muslim societies, finding in Istanbul a cultural touchstone, an inspiring mix of the modern and the pious, challenging the traditional players in the politics of Islamic practice. They all come here for a reason; the visibility of Islamic practice a far cry from where the country was even two decades ago. Turkey offers something fellow Mus…

Forget History Channel’s The Bible, Meet Omar

By Haroon Moghul

…rise of a global Muslim middle class, all kinds of people from Morocco to Indonesia will have the same problems we do: Where’s the remote, and why can’t I get myself up to get it? Take that, Samuel Huntington. Sit back and enjoy the sartorial convergence of Abrahamic monotheisms, whether Western or grocery store ethnic: Everyone in the desert dresses the same. But it doesn’t end there. There’s something about the unyielding harshness of those app…

Forget the Pope—We Need a New Caliph!

By Haroon Moghul

…rican born to a Kenyan father, raised in the most populous Muslim country, Indonesia, and friend to a Pakistani college roommate who taught him Urdu words and fed him Pakistani food. During his 2008 speech at Cairo University, Obama proved he can pronounce Arabic words, except for hijab, and is comfortable in front of Muslim audiences, unlike his predecessor George W. Bush. The Bad: Becoming the Caliph of Islam, Obama would basically confirm every…

News Flash: Buddhist-Majority Countries Just as Complicated as Muslim-Majority

By Haroon Moghul

…a, and indeed some incidents in Sri Lanka (a mosque has been attacked) and Indonesia suggest that it already has; the region is a heavily Buddhist, but also significantly Muslim, part of the planet. We can go further back, of course, in the history of religious tension: The Taliban destroyed the Bamiyan Buddhas, yet another notch in their brutal belt. But Burma’s Muslims have been suffering from long before. We reflexively associate Buddhism with…

It’s Theology, Not Baseball: Misunderstanding Iraq’s Sectarian Conflicts

By Amyn B. Sajoo

…mes, the two are inseparable — sharing a common enemy, pluralism. Of late, Indonesia and Malaysia have flirted with such behavior. This trend is hardly confined to Muslim-majority societies. Buddhist Myanmar and Sri Lanka, Hindu India, and Christian Uganda and Zimbabwe have done their share of official hate-mongering. So has the United States’ principal ally in the Middle East, Israel. As David Sheen has noted in these pages, none other than the f…

Morality Police, Jihadists, Religious Competition, Grindr, & Americans Abroad: Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…broadcast content in Asian countries such as Muslim majority Malaysia and Indonesia. Viewers in South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Singapore also watched the same censored version…. Jeanne Leong, director of communications at BBC Worldwide Asia, said as an international broadcaster the BBC had to comply with the broadcast regulations of the countries in which its channels were aired. As there was only one edit for the whole of the region, the broa…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…s” rhetoric can be heard of course much further afield including in Egypt, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Uganda. Russia is not directly responsible for this proliferation of laws outlawing the promotion of homosexuality, or for the renewed zeal for using existing morality laws against LGBT people, such as in Egypt. But Russia has positioned itself as the champion of traditional values, both domestically and internationally. … “Traditional values” is the…

Russian Attack on LGBTs at UN Rejected; Gay Cake Controversy Rages in N. Ireland; Bishop Calls for Marriage Referendum in Puerto Rico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…tions. China, Belarus and Muslim countries like Malaysia supported Moscow. Indonesia abstained but voiced “strong objections” to Ban’s decision. European nations, the United States, Australia and Mexico were among those who rejected Russia’s motion. For Samantha Power, the US ambassador to the United Nations, Ban was within his rights to make the administrative decision, which has no effect on national laws. Power criticized Russia for trying to “…