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Trump Election Could Threaten LGBT Rights Globally

By Peter Montgomery

…eaders like Vladimir Putin and derided multinational institutions from the European Union to NATO. One area he has been clear on, however, is shutting down the US refugee resettlement program, and there are now roughly 1,000 queer refugees from countries like Syria and Iran currently waiting to be resettled from Turkey, said Neil Grungras of the LGBT refugee organization ORAM…. But activists in countries where US support has been critical to promo…

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

…with backlash A survey by Dalia Research reported that about 6 percent of Europeans identify as LGBT. In some countries, the figure was twice as high for people under 30. AFP examines what it describes as rising intolerance, a backlash against progress made on LGBT rights since the 1990s: ILGA-Europe, an umbrella organisation for LGBTI groups, was marking its 20th anniversary in the Cyprus capital Nicosia. It said the movement had achieved things…

Charged with Impiety: When Black Bodies Defy Tradition

By Yazmine Nichols

…stating that: The children of ‘English, French, Italian, Scandinavian, and European parentage quickly merge into the mass of our population and lose the distinctive hallmarks of their origin…On the other hand…children born in this country of Hindu parents would retain indefinitely clear evidence of their ancestry. Thind was denied citizenship because he did not appear to be white. The case marked a seismic shift in American conceptions of the whit…

Obsession with Attackers’ Backgrounds Misses the Point of Terrorism

By Ali Olomi

…ndings of jihad, the ideology of jihadism is unmistakably modern, suturing European ideology onto an older religious concept. The formulation of a people’s war or a people’s revolution found deep sympathy in both the reformist Salafi-Wahhabism as well as Shia Khomeneism. In 1979 the Soviet-Afghan War and the Islamic Revolution of Iran became the international stage that put theory into practice. Though colonialism and global intervention has certa…

Why Have So Many Fallen for the Rune Stone Hoax?

By Joseph Laycock

…ulation on cable television, but Krueger notes that these tales of ancient European settlers effectively marginalize America’s actual original inhabitants. Krueger’s analysis of how history is re-imagined to serve a variety of civic, ethnic, and religious agendas is especially timely today as conservatives in Texas have pressured textbook companies into producing materials that present America’s origin as an explicitly “Christian nation,” while wh…

The Grand Old Homonationalist Party: The Issue that Keeps the Log Cabin Republicans, Republican

By Omar Sarwar

…ated that they’re following in the footsteps of right-wing, anti-immigrant European politicians, such as the Netherlands’ Pim Fortuyn—who held that the “achterlijke cultuur,” or backward culture of Islam, was uniquely hostile to LGBT rights—or his incendiary successor, Geert Wilders. This speculation may have some merit, but it ignores the thoroughly domestic dynamics of which figures like Trump and Gingrich have taken advantage—namely, LCR’s vari…

#HijabiLivesMatter: The Burkini Ban, Black Hair and the Meaning of “Natural”

By Shaina Hammerman

…ew York Times. The Times piece featured a string of direct quotations from European Muslim women, whose experiences of discrimination may sound familiar to American readers who follow the conversation about race in America: the women feel “insulted,” “humiliated,” “scandalized.” They feel the need to “politely justify” themselves. One feels “like a criminal.” One Parisian even directly references the American civil rights movement, saying, “I don’…

The Higher the Dome, The Closer to God: “Megachurches” Explores the Arid Architecture of America’s New Sanctuaries

By Anita Little

…s, that the architecture and location is often like a warehouse. I suppose Europeans are used to churches being in these super ornate spaces? Yeah, or a place that’s really a destination. People I know go to a church because the paintings are pretty. You go because it’s a quiet contemplative space. You don’t go to church because of the service. You try to photograph the churches when they’re deserted and empty. Is that in any way a commentary on w…

The Shared Fantasy of Redemptive Violence Between ISIS and the Islamophobic Right

By Donovan Schaefer

…, you have the global Islamophobic right—those (mostly) North American and European politicians who immediately labeled the truck attack as an act of Islamic terror. Newt Gingrich, still auditioning for the role of Donald Trump’s sidekick as late as Friday morning last week, called for a “test” of all Muslims in the US in his response to the truck attack. If they support “shariah law,” Gingrich asserted, they should be forcibly expelled from the c…

ISIS Claims Responsibility for Orlando Massacre; Legal Gray Area in Jordan Amid Rising Fundamentalism; Push and Pull on LGBT Human Rights at UN; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…attacked religious freedom: Orban seems to perpetually test the limits of European institutions — and his own. In 2011, parliament passed a law on the “Right of Freedom of Conscience and Religion,” which bore the same relation to freedom of conscience that the media law did to freedom of speech. The law required religious organizations to gain official approval through a two-thirds vote of parliament, thus creating separate classes of favored and…