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Barr and Pompeo Speeches Show Why Evangelical Warriors Won’t Abandon the President

By Bradley Onishi

…express this ideology seamlessly. “The imperative of protecting religious freedom was not just a nod in the direction of piety,” Barr said. “It reflects the framers’ belief that religion was indispensable to sustaining our free system of government.” This statement coheres with what the president said in his Values Voter Summit speech, which he has said several times before: “Our rights come from our Creator.” If this weren’t enough, last Monday…

Gambian Leaders Portray Anti-Gay Law as Defense of Islam, Ugandan Politicians as ‘Christmas Gift’; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…through the parliament. The experts include the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom or opinion and expression, David Kaye; the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai; the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders, Michel Forst; and the Special Rapporteur on the right of everyone to the enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of…

“Mass Graves, Child Soldiers” and a Crusading Army of International Evangelists

By Rosalind I. J. Hackett and Randal L. Hepner

…b of the earth-scorching twenty-year long war, ended barely six years ago, between the Lord’s Resistance Army and the Government of Uganda. The majority of the crowd for the five-night Jubilee Crusade in late July was poor and desperate; victims, directly or indirectly, of one of Africa’s most brutal conflicts. Tragically, one middle-aged woman with unknown medical complications even died on the spot, close to where we were standing, while being “…

Muslim Voices Festival: Story-telling For a New Millennium

By Hussein Rashid

…corner of the stage. With Shah’s appearance, there is far more interaction between the two dastango, reintroducing the glass wall. However, the performance was still engaging, and while the first act possessed some archaic language as befits an old story, the second act introduced some modern terms and English loans, highlighting the living nature of the material. The inclusion of Indic material with Islamicate material hinted at a rich cultural c…

American Fever: A Tale of Romance and Pestilence

By Michael A. Elliott

…city, causing massive casualties and wreaking havoc to the social fabric. Better equipped and informed than the vast of majority of his fellow New Yorkers, the narrator composes a blog that chronicles his city’s struggles and wins an international following. The novel contains several plotlines, including the narrator’s own difficulties in forging personal relationships, his need for and fear of social isolation, and the impromptu groups that eme…

Why Are Muslims So Concerned with Muhammad?

By Haroon Moghul

…(to say nothing of the long history of Western intervention in the Middle East and the traumatic aftereffects of colonialism, which could be a whole article itself). For one thing, Muhammad is dear to Muslim hearts in the way Jesus is to many Christians: He brought us enlightenment. But Muhammad is also dear to Muslim hearts because Muslims strive to be like him, to the extent of looking like him (and his close family and companions, with some…

Shameful GOP Tax Plan Taxes Reality

By Peter Laarman

…. publicly-traded corporations that effectively paid a rate of 20% or less between 2008 and 2015 actually cut their domestic employment levels. The record likewise clearly shows that these cash-loaded corporations have firmly declined to share their record profitability with workers in the form of wage/salary increases and improved benefits. Any comparison of the job-stimulating potential of the current GOP plan and the 1986 Reagan tax cut is comp…

Obama Quietly Declares June “LGBT Pride Month”

By Nick Street

…atching President Obama negotiate some pretty tricky terrain in the Middle East) did not escape the notice of our brothers and sisters on the religious right. “Homosexuality is nothing to be proud of,” Peter LaBarbera told One News Now, the online news division of the American Family Association. “The fact is people have left the lifestyle,” said LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality. “People have overcome homosexuality—I…

Kindred Hatemongers: Why American Islamophobes and Muslim Protesters Need Each Other

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…e more successful. Morris Sadek, another US-based Coptic Christian, helped promote the film on his website, and may have been the one who arranged for a translation into Arabic and the promotion of the video in Cairo. In Egypt and throughout the Muslim world, the filmmakers finally received the negative publicity and public protests that they’d sought all along. But although many Muslims were offended by the tawdry mocking of their Prophet in the…

Why Are Some Muslims Calling to Replace GMT with Mecca Time?

By Salman Hameed

…following lines: “Forget the clash of civilizations—the next grand battle between East and West will be over Time itself.” Mecca matters deeply to Muslims because of its religious importance. Building such an enormous clock may make it all the more a source of pride to the religion of over a billion people, though I can also imagine some objecting to the presence of such a large structure next to the holy grounds. Nevertheless, the efforts by som…