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Titanic: “Eurabian” Alarmism 2.0

By Haroon Moghul

…lves. This explains why it was so hard for the West to sustain interest in Afghanistan during the ’90s and why wars in countries with oil get our attention more quickly. The great challenge of the present deficit between cultures and societies is not policy; empathy precedes strategy. Are we able to see conflicts from various perspectives, or is our own fear so great and terrifying that it forces us back into ourselves, favoring a posture of emoti…

Why Zubik is Especially Important for Women of Color

By Elizabeth Platt and Kira Shepherd

…heir lives. The United States is now one of only eight countries—including Afghanistan and South Sudan—where the maternal mortality rate is actually increasing. These numbers are even bleaker for women of color in the U.S., where black women are four times more likely than white women to die in childbirth. The pervasive health disparities among communities of color can be traced back, in part, to a long legacy of reproductive coercion. In 2003, th…

Catholic Bishops End Family Synod With Little To Say To Gays; World Congress of Families Has Plenty To Say, None of it Good; How Same-Sex Marriage Came to a Buddhist Temple in Japan; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…t, the notorious mastermind of the gays-as-threats-to-children ads used to promote Prop 8 and other anti-gay initiatives in the U.S. The conference also included an “emerging leaders” training track, which provided scholarships to about 260 young people from more than 40 countries and 25 states. A conference organizer estimated that they were part of a group of about 500 under-30 participants out of the more than 3300 who joined at least part of t…

ISIS, ISIL or Daesh? Either Way, Obama Gets it Right

By Haroon Moghul

…American forces in the manner the mujahideen had gone after the Soviets in Afghanistan. Only years later did we realize that this was bin Laden’s hope for the September 11 attacks all along: To drag the US into costly quagmires which would bleed us, financially and literally, into decline. Bin Laden’s strategy did not work out for him, in large part because his Iraqi franchise was too murderous. Al-Qaeda in Iraq was known, for some time, as the Is…

Solidarity Through Veiling? Backlash Has Been “Personal, Fierce and Vile…”

By Sarah Eltantawi

…y who grew up in the 1930s – 1980s in the Arab world, South Asia including Afghanistan, Indonesia, West Africa, and other parts of the Muslim majority world, or anyone who knows the social history of those places during those times, understands that the headscarf was rare, while personal piety was strong if not stronger during this time period (according again to ethnographic research, biographies, etc.) These societies were more just and stable a…

No, Sunni and Shia Muslims Have Not Been Fighting Forever

By Haroon Moghul

…about religion per se. We sided with Muslims in Bosnia and Albania. And in Afghanistan and Iraq, we fought against some Muslims even as we empowered other Muslims. But while religion isn’t foremost in many of our analyses and forefront in our motivations, many Muslims do perceive these same conflicts as religious. Because religion is more prominent in their worldviews. That’s why some people in the Muslim world link the Prophet Muhammad cartoons t…

Ross Douthat on the Brink

By Haroon Moghul

…numbers of refugees, many of them Syrian, but many from the Balkans, Iran, Afghanistan, or Pakistan. The key word here is “peacefully,” as in the likelihood of “peacefully absorbing a migration of that size and scale of cultural difference.” (I will overlook the use of the word “migration,” although Syrians, at least, are fleeing a war zone, not simply making a radical life choice.) Because Douthat is, on this, not wrong. As Douthat notes, the arr…

Australia’s Harsh Refugee Policies Stirring Backlash; Malawi Court Sides With Pastors To Lift Moratorium on Sodomy Prosecutions; Uzbek President Says God Has Taken Gays’ Reason Away; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…lation, with the Attorney General making clear that it had no intention of promoting marriage equality. Both proponents and opponents of civil unions and same-sex marriage protested this week in anticipation of the civil unions proposal. The rally was peaceful, but vocal in its outright stand against same-sex marriage, with the biggest cheers going to an organiser who told the gathering that “a few do not decide for the many”. “If the Bermuda Gove…

Is Sam Harris Really a White Supremacist?

By Andrew Aghapour and Michael Schulson

…his first book, The End of Faith, the United States was at war in Iraq and Afghanistan. The direct after-effects of September 11th continued to shape domestic and global politics. Twelve years later, with attacks on American Muslims on the rise, and a serious presidential contender claiming that “Islam hates us,” it’s much easier to see the resemblance between New Atheist invectives against Islam and other, more traditional forms of American bigot…

LGBT Activists Challenge Church Anti-Marriage Efforts; Gov’t in Belize Creates Church-State ‘Public Morality’ Commission; Opponents Seek To Stop Finland’s Marriage Equality Law Before It Takes Effect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ancis to dismiss Carinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, who activists accuse of “promoting hatred” against LGBT people. Other activists Belize: Government will challenge anti-sodomy-law ruling, create ‘public morality’ commission In the aftermath of a recent ruling by the country’s Chief Justice against the sodomy law, the government of Prime Minister Dean Barrow has agreed to set up a “church state commission on public morality” that will consider “how…