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Uganda’s “Kill the Gays” Bill On Track for Passage

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…r Parliament to turn down the bill, Uganda must hear more reality from the international community. As the bill draws ever closer to become law, now is the time for renewed international outrage and pressure. Will religious leaders in the U.S. speak out? Will U.S. political leaders speak out or threaten aid to Uganda? Will the evangelicals who fostered support for this bill and animosity for gays and lesbians do anything to stop its passage? All O…

Election Update: Oklahoma Bans Shari’ah Law

By Haroon Moghul

It’s called Measure 755. For Oklahoma, it forbids the use of international and Shari’ah law in state courts. As of the time of writing, it has passed, winning nearly 70% of the vote. As an American Muslim, and a citizen of New York, I am amused, concerned, fascinated and, oddly, given hope. Let me go in that order. Shari’ah is, for Muslims, the “path to the water”; the texts that normatively define a moral life and the means to God and heaven in…

Irony of the Iranian Women’s Burqa Ban

By Shabana Mir

…e loss of their careers as this was an Olympic-qualifying match. No longer internationally competitive, the team will not be funded by the state and will die an unfortunate death—in a field characterized by racial and cultural diversity. Or is international soccer merely a field for Western cultural assimilation, a sphere that rejects cultural diversity? Muslim women’s head-covers again prove to be the ultimate political and cultural test of plura…

The Bleeding Heart of Muslim Europe

By Haroon Moghul

…atholic populations. After that came Srebrenica, which may have forced the international community to act after years of containing the conflict within the former Yugoslavia. In the days leading up to July 11, 1995, Bosniaks had come to Srebrenica from surrounding areas, because it was declared a UN safe area; then Dutch UN peacekeepers stepped aside, having no mandate to resist the Serbs by force, and the slaughter commenced. Civilians raced blin…

Evangelicals Call Christian Zionist Uncritical “Support” for Israel “Appalling” and “Intolerable”

By Sarah Posner

…most alone in the world community in supporting Israeli policies which our international friends generally find intolerable if not immoral and illegal. But it’s not just the international community that finds the occupation immoral and illegal; Gushee and Stassen accuse their evangelical brethren of the sin of underwriting human rights abuses and ensuing violence: Not to put too fine a point on it, we wish to claim here that the prevailing version…

LGBT and Muslim? A New Report Busts Stereotypes

By Peter Montgomery

…, the “Muslim LGBT Inclusion Project,” was just published by Intersections International—a New York-based nonprofit whose mandate, says founding director Rev. Robert Chase, is to bring together people who differ, honor those differences, and find ways to work together for reconciliation, justice, and peace. The report builds on interviews with Muslim community leaders, several scholarly articles, as well as facilitated discussions among more than…

The Islamists vs. The Markets: Egypt’s Election Analyzed

By Haroon Moghul

…erein long-established Western democracies are completely powerless before international finance. Who seriously thinks that Greece, Italy, Spain, Ireland, or Iceland, or even the United Kingdom and Germany, have any meaningful democratic domestic consensus? Who seriously thinks that the people in those countries have any meaningful options in how their countries respond to the current economic crisis—which affects a whole range of domestic social…

Gingrich, Israel, and the Assassinate Obama Comments

By Shalom Goldman

…sraeli Right which has long sought for Jerusalem to be, in the eyes of the international community, exclusively Israel’s. The Forward‘s Gal Beckerman nails the bigger picture: [the] concern is that because of his influence on Gingrich, Adelson has turned the Republican contest into a competition of extreme rhetoric, in which there is no room for compromise or diplomacy, and the only answer to any international problem is unmitigated toughness. No…

LDS Church-Owned Radio Station Stands By Rush Limbaugh

By Joanna Brooks

…of polycystic ovaries and endometriosis. LDS Church-subsidiary Bonneville International owns 29 radio stations. It is one of seven religiously-owned or affiliated national radio networks, including the American Family Association network (165 stations), Bible Broadcasting Network (37 stations), Educational Media Association (290 stations), Family Stations (67 stations), Moody Bible Institute (36 stations), and the for-profit Christian broadcaster…

American Evangelist Who Sparked Anti-Gay Panic Sued By Ugandan Gay Rights Group

By Sarah Posner

…in federal court in Massachusetts on Wednesday, accusing him of violating international law by inciting the persecution of gay men and lesbians in Uganda. The lawsuit maintains that beginning in 2002, Mr. Lively conspired with religious and political leaders in Uganda to whip up anti-gay hysteria with warnings that gay people would sodomize African children and corrupt their culture. The Ugandan legislature considered a bill in 2009, proposed by…