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Indonesian Court Rejects Religious Conservatives’ Bid To Criminalize Gay Sex; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…positive depictions of LGBT lives. The MDA Free to Air Television Program Code states that “music associated with drugs, alternative lifestyles (e.g. homosexuality) or the worship of the occult or the devil should not be broadcast.” The Free to Air Radio Program Code says “information, themes or subplots on lifestyles such as homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexualism, transsexualism, transvestism, paedophilia and incest should be treated with utmost…

Nuancing the Fear of Islam is Smart, Not Political

By Hussein Rashid

…Normally I have fun poking holes in the idiocies of Islamophobes. However, I must now, with heavy heart, go after the misuse of the term by a friend. Fatemeh Fakhraie of…

Ugandan Anti-Gay Fallout: New Laws, New Violence, New Underground Railroad

By Peter Montgomery

…nd where their applications for asylum might be accepted. Although life in Turkey is far safer for LGBT people than it is in Iran and many other Arab countries, Turkey is still a challenging place for them, as the film shows. Luxembourg: Gay Prime Minister May Be One of First to Marry Under New Law Luxembourg’s openly gay Prime Minister Xavier Bettel announced this week that he is engaged and will marry his partner “soon.” From the LA Times’ Henry…

Dispatches From the Site of a Massacre

By Haroon Moghul

…been a member of NATO longer than Germany or Spain. Many question whether Turkey has now “abandoned” the West; I wonder whether the question itself is more revealing than any presumed answer. Then I’ll head to Bosnia, where America came to the rescue of a Muslim people who resemble puddles left by a receded tide, stranded in a new Europe that has little room in its imagination for them. My journey is deeply personal, and urgently universal. The 1…

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

By Haroon Moghul

…ese new democracies? And, I might add, the Freedom and Justice Party, like Turkey’s AKP, is a conservative, free-market party; they may, in this climate, simply be best suited to govern, although Egypt—like Turkey—enjoys a far broader social consensus around social welfare and mutual obligation than does the United States (don’t take the economic implications of right-wing too far). Nevertheless, perhaps unexpectedly, it is economic ideology that…

Mini-Review of A Jihad for Love

By Kate Childs Graham

…ek refugee status, a gay imam from South Africa, and a lesbian couple from Turkey. Sharma’s representation of the lives of those filmed is as poignant as it is moving. Rather than attack Islam, as many would have done, he delves into what it means to be Muslim in each of his subjects’ lives. In a question and answer session with Sharma following a recent screening of the film in Washington DC, he stated that—above all else—these people were “comin…

Watching Man of Steel in Istanbul

By Haroon Moghul

…nd desperately in need of superhero Xanax. International media coverage of Turkey made it seem like the country was falling apart and this deeply upset me; actually being in the country quickly refuted this emergency narrative and made me wonder how such hyperventilation would affect one of the Muslim world’s few success stories. After all, you’d hardly know the protests were happening from the size of the crowds, the throngs of tourists, and the…

When I Have Fears The Middle East May Cease To Be

By Haroon Moghul

…in a war that the deep state exploited for its purposes. It only worked in Turkey until the former Islamists overcame the deep state, and turned it to their side. But Turkey seems right now an exception: Across the region, there is a sense of ominous paralysis. It’s not that the center cannot hold. It’s that there is no center. My grandfather was a well-educated man, versed in the traditions of a Muslim episteme that seems impossibly far. He and h…

Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…larger struggle within hierarchy James Martin, a Jesuit priest whose book promoting bridge-building between the church and gay Catholics has exposed him to vehement criticism from anti-LGBT Catholics, described his experience at the hands of “the Catholic alt-right” in a Washington Post op ed. For just one example, see Claire Chretien’s attack for Life Site News on what she calls the “extreme” things Martin has said about Catholics and gay marria…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) people in Poland is contained in the Labor Code. This ban on discrimination based on sexual orientation was introduced as a requirement for EU accession. There is no similar measure covering gender identity. There are still no legal avenues allowing same-sex couples to register their relationships with the state. Children born to LGB Polish parents abroad are denied Polish citizenship. Due to a presidential veto of…