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Update: Mubarak Steps Down; The Crash After Mubarak’s Speech

By H.A. Hellyer

…hs, and all three of those faiths reject the use of drugs. But last night, Egypt was high. And then, it crashed. Egyptians weren’t high on drugs yesterday, of course. But as the rumor mill kicked into high gear, fueled by leading statements from the military, as well as media leaks, the mood in Egypt turned into one of jubilancy and elation. The expectation was that Mubarak would step down – for hours, people thought that he had already fled the c…

Does Secularism Have a Role in Egyptian Struggle?

By Austin Dacey

…n, and the state has no right to intervene in religious affairs. Likewise, Egyptians of all faiths and none are entitled to freedom of religion and conscience and equal treatment under the law. What title for this position would be more apt than secularism? RD contributing editor Austin Dacey will be writing a series of posts in the coming months as part of a joint project between The Immanent Frame and Religion Dispatches made possible by the gen…

Welcome to the Shari’ah Conspiracy Theory Industry

By Sarah Posner

…and Islam as director of the Ethics and Public Policy Center’s Program to Promote and Protect America’s Freedom. Santorum, who is considering a presidential run, depicts an American battle against radical Islam as a civilizational war against “Christendom.” The theological warriors include Jewish groups as well. “Shari’ah is an Arabic term referring to a legal framework to regulate public and private aspects of life based upon specific Islamic te…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…inalized homosexuality (though transgender rights have been preserved). In Egypt, where gays experienced new freedoms in the brief interlude of democracy after the 2011 revolution, they are now, under Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s dictatorship, subjected to constant harassment and surveillance and hundreds have been arrested. Poland: Climate for LGBT people deteriorates under Law and Justice Party World Politics Review’s editors wrote on July 24 about th…

Mubarak’s Unedited Interview with Christiane Amanpour Reimagined

By Wajahat Ali

…, the antagonist, is… Mubarak: The Muslim Brotherhood and all enemies of freedom… CA: Of course, and Saruman, the treacherous wizard, is… Mubarak: The U.S….they betrayed me. I thought they were my bros. [Eyes well up] CA: And you’re Gandalf the Grey? Mubarak: There are no Gays in Egypt.. CA: No, the Grey. Mubarak: Hanh? The hearing gets bad at 82…what? No, my hair, thank Allah, is not grey. It is miracle. CA: And Aragorn? Mubarak: He is…

Brazilian Evangelicals Launch ‘Sin-Free’ (Read: Gay-Free) Version of Facebook

By Peter Montgomery

…an rights are an administration priority. Brazil: Evangelicals launch ‘sin-free’ – ie gay-free – version of Facebook Pink News reports, “Brazilian Evangelicals have launched their own ‘sin-free’ version of Facebook, which is founded on love and acceptance – unless you’re gay.” FaceGloria reportedly attracted more than 100,000 users in its first month. South Korea: Gay couple sues government for marriage recognition In South Korea, where we reporte…

Glenn Beck’s Political Theology

By Daniel Schultz

…for, sanction, and legitimate a society of order, which is precisely what Egypt had. In Egypt, as Frankfort has shown, there were no revolutions, no breaks for freedom. There only the necessary political and economic arrangements to provide order, “naturally,” the order of Pharaoh. Thus the religion of static gods is not and could never be disinterested, but inevitably it served the people in charge, presiding over the order and benefitting from…

Rage or Courage?: YouTube Terrorism Take Two

By Bruce B. Lawrence

…well as their bodies and their polities, are shackled; they will never be free unless or until they embrace freedom as an absolute, unqualified good. In light of this genealogy, one must recognize the beguiling simplicity of the blame game—that ‘rage’ is entirely the problem of those enraged. They are not like us. They take religion to be a sacred cow, while we know that freedom of expression is the first, fundamental, basis of democracy, and tha…

In ‘God Hates Fags’ Case, Free Speech Trumps Free Exercise

By Julie Ingersoll

…his religion (as well as his privacy rights). The Phelps case relied on a free speech claim instead of freedom of religion, and they won. So as the Supreme Court sees the right to freely practice one’s religion as “constitutionally irrelevant,” religion has been reduced in popular rhetoric to the right of the dominant religion to be free of any challenges to its dominance: wishing someone “happy holidays” in thought to violate the religious freed…

Brownback Nomination Further Evidence That “Religious Freedom” Is Code For “Conservative Christian Supremacy”

By Sunnivie Brydum

…ement policies in respective regions or countries, and develop programs to promote religious freedom.” But given Brownback’s history of using “religious freedom” as a sword to discriminate against LGBT people, his nomination offers the strongest evidence yet that, when the Trump administration talks about “religious freedom,” it actually means “Christian supremacy.” Though Brownback an equal-opportunity excluder: the Council on American-Islamic Re…