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Feminist Critics of Wearing Hijab in Solidarity Fall Into Same Old Traps

By Mariam Durrani

…ssions of earlier feminist debates. And that’s exactly where, I argue, the online Muslim community has been stuck over the last few days. Can we just stop for a minute? While I can agree with Nomani and Arafa’s critique of Wahhabi, Saudi-funded Islamist groups that support more conservative and often sexist ideologies and policies across the Muslim world, I’m hesitant to rope the hijab into this socio-political and economic constellation of issues…

Pope Follows Himself in Twitter Echo Chamber

By Elizabeth Drescher

…interactive network, with nearly 14,000 followers and 42 fellow bishops, a number of vicars, religion writers, and community service organizations among those he follows. Mark Driscoll, arguably the pope of conservative smack-talking hipster evangelicalism, boasts more than 300,000 followers, and follows 4,000. Though religious participation in the twittersphere often echoes the man-cave qualities of institutional religious leadership in general,…

Intolerance in Indonesia Extends to Religious Minorities; Lutheran Church in Norway OK’s Same-Sex Marriage, But Not in Finland; Catholic Church Warns Australian CEOs to Back Off Marriage Equality Support; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…entation and gender identity. The Sexual Rights Initiative has launched an online National Sexual Rights Law and Policy Database it describes as “a one-stop shop for national Constitutions, laws and policies related to sexual rights, including reproductive rights and sexual and reproductive health.” Indonesia: Anti-LGBT Campaign Tied to Rising Intolerance Toward Religious Minorities Murray Hiebert and Norashiqin Toh at the US based Center for Stra…

TED-Evangelism Harkens Back to a Forgotten 19th-Century Tradition

By Michael Schulson

…o upwards of 60 original TED lectures, videos of which will then be posted online. The least popular can expect thousands of viewers. The most popular could hit upwards of 30 million. These aren’t exactly Justin Bieber numbers, but for 18 minute-long lectures about science, management, creativity, design, and technology, they’re extraordinary. The TED brand has become synonymous with a certain kind of hip, Silicon Valley-style wonkishness. A viral…

Orlando Massacre and ISIS: The Illusion of Power

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…or liberation. Moreover, volunteers are not streaming to the region in the numbers that previously had supported the movement. Although their online presence continues to be active on Twitter and on secret sites on the dark web, volunteers seem hesitant to join a losing operation. In this context ISIS needs the illusion of power. There is no doubt that this is what the Paris and Brussels terrorist attacks were meant to achieve. ISIS has also encou…

LGBT Victories at Olympics, Struggles in Brazil; Catholic Bishops Organizing Anti-Marriage Equality Protests in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…of the campaign “crazy fools” and a “lesion on the Muslim community” in an online statement, but also maintained that they should be dealt with “within the law.” In a 2015 report, the Iraqi group Iraqueer and the US-based organization OutRight Action International (formerly the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission) documented the kidnapping and murders of gay men by members of Iraqi militia groups, including the Brigades of Wrath…

Equality Opponents Try to Reverse UN Progress; Anti-Gay Pentecostal Pastor Elected Mayor of Rio; Indonesian University Official Tells LGBT Students To ‘Normalize’ Or Be Punished; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…of the resurgence of conservatism in Brazil.” (Some awkward language from online translation) The triumph of conservative Crivella is the latest sign of widespread anger in Brazil towards traditional leftist parties in the midst of a deep recession after impeachment by which the Workers Party was ousted from power, which had been for 13 years. Also it marks a political rise of evangelical churches as Pentecostal. Although Crivella had run in prev…

Religious Freedom Org Sticking By Trump Clinging to SCOTUS Nominations

By Sunnivie Brydum

As growing numbers of career politicians and conservative pundits scramble to distance themselves from the ever-imploding presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump, the foul-mouthed businessman still has a few reliable allies going to bat for him. And although Trump has seemed, at best, lukewarm about defending against the supposed “attack” on “Judeo-Christian values” in this nation, evangelicals and self-appointed religious freedom fighters conti…

#SorryNotSorry: What U.S. Christian Denominations Teach About Homosexuality

By Stephanie Russell-Kraft

…ovement led by More Light Presbyterians, according to Believe Out Loud, an online Cristian LGBT network. 65% of members believe homosexuality should be accepted by society. African Methodist Episcopal Church (Historically Black Protestant) Members (as of 2009): 2,500,000 Homosexuality “clearly contradicts [their] understanding of Scripture” and same-sex unions are “contrary to the will of god” 61% of members believe homosexuality should be accep…

Conservative French Catholics a ‘Rightwing Patriarchal Bunch’?; Indonesian Prez Decries Anti-LGBT Discrimination; Romanian Prez Warns Against ‘Religious Fanaticism’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ercent in the Americas, 41 percent in Europe and 56 percent in Oceania the online survey found. These divisions reflect that rights advocates in Africa and Asia have focused on more pressing issues, such as fighting discrimination against gays rather than promoting acceptance of same-sex marriage, said study co-author Aengus Carroll. “This is so far off the agenda for Africa and Asia,” Carroll told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. France: Conservat…