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Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…level officials, including the ministers of justice and the interior, have used the investigation of an online magazine to promote anti-LGBT animus, writes MJ Movahedi in The New Arab: It all began with a July request from an Islamist member of parliament, Dima Tahboub, to the Jordanian Media Commission to open an inquiry into the website My.Kali, a Jordanian queer-inclusive social affairs online magazine published since 2007. The commission concl…

Christianity and Condoms

By John Blevins

…e who abstains, it does not employ similar mechanisms to underwrite condom use or to support any identity that values condom use; those mechanisms, with very rare exceptions, are constructed and maintained outside of Christian communities. Most often, when Christians develop an argument of limited approval of condom use, those arguments generally advocate accommodation: “We Christians will agree that condoms should be used so that the spread of HI…

Proposition 8, The Mormon Coming Out Party

By Michelle Goldberg

…College of Shariah and Islamic Studies in Qatar. (Earlier, Qaradawi had caused an uproar during a visit to England because of his support for wife-beating and the execution of sodomites.) The Bush administration sent Wade Horn, then the assistant secretary for children and families in the Department of Health and Human Services. Wilkins has since moved to Qatar to build a pan-fundamentalist right-wing think tank, the Doha International Institute…

Were Angels Just Lucid Dreams?

By Richard Schiffman

…. The indigenous Senoi people, who live in the mountain jungles of central Malaysia, believe that by confronting and overcoming dangers in lucid dreams (like fire, floods, and tigers), and by consciously guiding those dreams to good endings, we can master our fears and have a positive impact on the events in waking life. More recently, Australian psychologist Milan Colic developed a method which employs lucid dreaming to help control nightmares an…

Why the Disappeared Malaysian Airliner Brings Out the Paranormal

By Joseph Laycock

…of disaster and cultural crisis. My last post discussed Ibrahim Mat Zin, a Malaysian bomoh, who claimed that government authorities asked him to help locate Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 using a shamanic ritual. Israeli psychic Uri Geller has now announced via Twitter that he too has been asked to help search for the missing plane. Geller rose to media fame in the 1970s for his alleged ability to bend spoons with his mind. He’s hinted he could he…

Sex and the Ummah

By Amina Wadud

…reached when it is permissible for a man to have more than one wife. Some use the logic of the Qur’an to further argue for monogamy as the norm because the preconditions for polygyny are especially impossible to fulfill these days. But again as I said, we’re working on it. Another thing which is really getting a lot of attention, and not just in the denial for the Saudi Prince, is same-sex relations. As this millennium began, more Muslims were ou…

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

…” Allen said. Bakery General Manager Daniel McArthur said the order was refused because it was not in line with the company’s views. “We considered it, looked at it and decided that it was at odds with our beliefs and was in contradiction with what the Bible teaches,” McArthur said.… “This case raises issues of public importance regarding the extent to which suppliers of goods and services can refuse service on grounds of sexual orientation, relig…

The Most Religious Race: Islam in Europe

By Haroon Moghul

…s it is too late. Islam confronts Europe and Europe is likely to lose: Because Islam is in no mood for compromise (somehow, Islam is an actor with a foreign policy) and because Muslims cannot by their nature compromise. Caldwell is right to point out that much of the European Union, as a project, is undemocratic, including the strange attraction among many European elites for admitting Turkey even though most Europeans strongly oppose the idea. Eu…

Tajwid: To Read with Love… and Competence

By Amina Wadud

…Ramadan and on our lives—to be grateful to be able to stand for prayer because sometimes people cannot. And it is more then just a complaint about Arabs reciting Arabic text that keeps them out. I lost out last year because after my accident I could no longer bend from the waist or prostrate. That much blood rushing to my head was painful, while the stitches were still there; and even after they had been removed. It was not the custom at the musal…

Muslim Women “Warriors”

By Frances Kissling

…rsity. Shariah is already interpreted differently from country to country, used and abused to justify practices that limit women’s human rights. Women are stoned to death and imprisoned for adultery, and even for reporting rape. Custody laws, which automatically award children to husbands, keep women in abusive marriages. In some countries, women can be divorced without their consent and with no provision for support. So-called honor killings go u…