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Not All Christians are Terrorists

By Reuven Firestone

…all our traditions to justify both standpoints. It was the late Bishop of Sweden, Krister Stendahl, who noted that believers, like members of any human group, have the tendency to see themselves in reference to the “other” by comparing the best of one’s own community with the worst of the other community. And it was Jesus who said, “Hypocrite! First take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see well enough to deal with the speck in yo…

After Early Christian Opposition, Iceland Gets First Pagan Temple in Nearly 1000 Years

By Joseph Laycock

…uilt in Northern Europe since the construction of the Temple at Uppsala in Sweden in 1070. More importantly, the temple symbolizes the arrival of the Ásatrúarfélag, founded in 1972, into Image of Beinteinsson in 1991 by Jónína K. Berg is licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.* Iceland’s religious mainstream. The progress of the Ásatrúarfélag is an index of a move in Western society toward a broader sense of religious pluralism that includes not only Abraham…

Ross Douthat’s Missing Pregnant Women

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…ily policy to speak of at the moment, and the evidence from countries like Sweden and France suggests that reducing the ever-rising cost of having kids can help fertility rates rebound.” (Er… it could also make things better for people parenting children. That could be a social good in its own right, quite apart from whether it produces the desired behavioral result involving reproductive organs, you know? Squicky.) But then we get to this: Benea…

The Politics of Anti-Gay Persecution: Gambia, Egypt, Jamaica, Russia, with a Helping Hand from US Religious Conservatives; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…f a memorandum from President Obama charging US foreign policy agencies to promote LGBT rights said that US efforts have been important to activists promoting equality and facing persecution around the world. Read the Washington Blade’s report here. On Wednesday, the Daily Beast hosted an event called Quorum: Global LGBT Voices that featured interviews with more than 25 activists from around the world to talk about “what is happening on the front…

LGBTs in Philippines Reflect on Papal Visit; Francis Meets Trans Man Shunned by Parish; French Group Turns ‘Bar of Sodom’ into ‘Pub of Mercy’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…are Anglican women bishops in the U.S., New Zeland, South Africa, Ireland, Sweden, and Germany. The consecration of Lane could exacerbate divisions in the Anglican Communion, as did the ordination by the Episcopal Church in the U.S. of an openly gay Bishop, Gene Robinson. (Anglican Mainstream, “an information resource for orthodox Anglicans,” featured on its website this week an article by Joseph Nicolosi, champion of “reparative therapy.”) In a r…

Interview With a Muslim

By Haroon Moghul

…vesMatter. Q: It’s not the same thing. A: Three mosques were attacked in Sweden in the last three weeks. One was set on fire, with people inside. Just recently thousands of Germans gathered against ‘Islamization.’ Somehow I don’t think they mean a handful of radicals. Q: So you’re saying you don’t condemn the attack. A: I already condemned it. What else do you need to hear? Q: Well maybe Muslims should go out in the streets, to protest, to s…

Pope Denounces Gender Colonization; Indonesian Court Considers Islamist Request To Criminalize Homosexuality; Egypt’s Grand Mufti Says No One Has Right to Harm Homosexuals; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ington Post recently profiled Amir Ashour, a queer Iraqi man now living in Sweden, who founded IraQueer, “a support network and digital resource on queer issues available in Arabic, Kurdish and English.” “There are no spaces for our community in Iraq,” he says. Until 2006, a few gay-friendly cafes or the occasional party was organized by underground groups for the LGBTQ community, he says, “but armed militias and government-affiliated groups have…

Norwegian Catholic Church May Stop Civil Marriages; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ty of the 5.2 million inhabitants of Norway. Pope Francis will visit Lund, Sweden, on October 31 for an ecumenical service with Lutheran World Federation members to mark the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. Bishop Eidsvig said it was unlikely the same-sex marriage controversy would be mentioned during the one-day event, adding that he hoped the Pope would also include a meeting with Catholics. Catholic Church: LGBT-Affirming Cathol…

Russia Expels Gay American Pastor, An Epidemic of Anti-LGBT Violence in Brazil, And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…back, promising a welcoming space to celebrate and honor LGBT athletes and promote human rights internationally. World Congress of Families: More on summit in Republic of Georgia Eurasianet publishes a story about May’s World Congress of Families summit in Tbilisi, Georgia. The article by Nino Gogua, Nikoloz Bezhanishvil, and Giorgi Lomsadze notes that the event’s anti-LGBT messages were in sync with the anti-Western theme of the conference. The W…

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…