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Tweeting ISIS Attacks: A Lesson in Not Learning a Lesson

By Haroon Moghul

…g state that might be able to stop them. Speaking of which, Assad told the French he too sympathizes because, of course, Syrians know what the French are going through too. Why not? 4. Let’s just do crazy stuff One crucial step to keeping Europe safe: halt and repatriate the Middle Eastern mass migration of the past 2 years, not because … — David Frum (@davidfrum) November 14, 2015 Yeah. The last two years. Let’s take thousands of people, deport t…

Douthat’s Criticism of Pope’s Restriction of Latin Mass Is Fascinating; It’s Also Ahistorical and Has Been Used Before

By Massimo Faggioli

…mit it themselves.” In the 21st century, American Catholicism has replaced French Catholicism as the hotbed of theological traditionalism. It therefore makes perfect sense that Douthat models his interpretation of the Catholic Church after French history, from the Revolution of 1789 to Napoleon and so on. But that’s not the only parallel between Lefebvre and Douthat’s interpretation of Vatican II and the liturgical reform recently defended by Pope…

Of Gods and Men Resurrects Martyrdom

By Nathan Schneider

…you change your vocabulary. The based-on-a-true-story account of the seven French monks who were abducted from the Our Lady of Atlas monastery in Algeria and murdered 56 days later, on May 21, 1996, occurred during a civil war between the government and Islamist groups that had, by then, already killed tens of thousands of civilians. The rebels singled out foreigners as targets, so the monks were well aware of the probable outcome. The government…

Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

By Peter Montgomery

…um of opinion, German social norms are in some ways more conservative than French ones. (Take the issue of abortion. Although both countries have quite liberal regimes for terminating a pregnancy up to 12 weeks, the German one lays down that women must have counselling—in which they are told that fetuses have rights—before undergoing the procedure. That would be hard to imagine in France.) Some reasons for the French-German difference are clear en…

International Protest of Anti-Gay Persecution in Chechnya Grows; more in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…tered to anti-gay Catholics after the resurfacing of the anti-gay marriage French coalition La Manif Pour Tous (Demonstration For All) in October 2016, with 24,000 demonstrators demanding that candidates pledge to repeal the marriage law. Le Pen made the pledge, later promising civil unions. Macron bowed, too, telling l’Obs that people who opposed marriage equality had been “humiliated” by a government that had ignored “a part of the country which…

Trump Order A ‘Death Sentence’ For Some LGBT Refugees? Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…re is punishable by imprisonment up to one year.” This article, a relic of French legislation introduced during Lebanon’s French mandate, has been used to imprison gay people in recent years. However, in two landmark trials in 2009 and 2014, the judges in question ruled that homosexuality is natural and hence that it cannot be prosecuted through the use of article 534. Nevertheless, as Lebanon retains a French-influenced codal system, these ruling…

White Nationalist Ideology Shines Through at Elite MAGA Conference: Inside NatCon Part II

By Ben Lorber

…he explains in one example, “Swedish Americans tend to be more civic than French Americans, who are more civic than Italian Americans. If you go to Europe, you find the Swedes are more civic than the French, who are more civic than Italians. Again, hundreds of years [believed] to have gone away, but it still persists in America.” Thus, Richwine seems to conclude, a people’s culture is stamped indelibly in the DNA of its people, and fundamentally…

Conservatism’s Bulldog Claims Psychology Tilts Liberal

By Ira Chernus

…ry of the Jewish officer Alfred Dreyfus, who was so terribly victimized by French anti-Semitism. Durkheim, who was understandably concerned about whether the Jews would ever be accepted as an integral part of French society, wanted to be sure there could be no doubts about his own loyalty to France as his primary group identity. Having grown up in a society still powerfully shaped by romantic nationalism, he devoted much of his career to developin…

Ian Buruma on the Political Excesses of Religion

By Lisa Webster

…rse with European Islamophobes? Well someone like Berman is always quoting French intellectuals who are on that side, who see Islam as a great threat and so on—I’m a great enemy to them. Of course… Well you say “of course” but it’s slightly absurd. The problem with the culture wars is that it’s become increasingly difficult—and that’s true here too—to have a real debate in good faith, where two sides hold different views but are both interested in…

An American Muslim Abroad, Or, Things I Saw in Dubai

By Haroon Moghul

…h buildings, starting right around the same time. Talk about luxury on the cheap; it’s hard to deny a feeling of similarity. (The tower is to the Burj as a certain toupee is to hair: might the Trump Tower inadvertently mimic an Islamic motif?) The regal twin palm trees in the foreground are the world’s tallest, at some 3,500 feet each. Recently a falling coconut crushed an entire apartment complex, punching a massive hole that has filled up with…