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Catholic Church Bans Gay Film: This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ll become first in Asia to legalize gay marriage. South Africa: Foundation Promotes Affirming Religious Voices, Official Urges African Countries to Protect LGBT Rights The Other Foundation, which advances LGBT human rights in southern Africa, is planning a meeting with religious leaders to discuss homophobia. Shekeshe Mokgosi, the foundation’s public engagement manager, told reporter Don Makatile that people use the Bible and Qur’an to promote hom…

Forgiveness

By Amina Wadud

…on, let us hope the offense of racism finds such recompense in America. In Malaysia and Indonesia, at the end of Ramadan there is a custom to seek forgiveness zahir and batin for offenses done knowing and unknowingly. We do not know all the time how our actions affect another person. So to keep the level of humanity in forgiveness straight let me say, in writing this blog, if I have offended anyone knowingly or unknowingly, please forgive me and a…

The Most Religious Race: Islam in Europe

By Haroon Moghul

…s live in democracies: Mali, Turkey, Lebanon, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and Indonesia, among other countries, with 700 million Muslims; more than half the planetary total. Other millions of Muslims live in majority non-Muslim dictatorships, such as Russia and China. But the best proof of Islam’s allergy to liberty is found in democratic Senegal. Independent in 1960, this 90%-Muslim country proceeded to elect a President, Leopold Sengh…

It’s Theology, Not Baseball: Misunderstanding Iraq’s Sectarian Conflicts

By Amyn B. Sajoo

…re inseparable — sharing a common enemy, pluralism. Of late, Indonesia and Malaysia have flirted with such behavior. This trend is hardly confined to Muslim-majority societies. Buddhist Myanmar and Sri Lanka, Hindu India, and Christian Uganda and Zimbabwe have done their share of official hate-mongering. So has the United States’ principal ally in the Middle East, Israel. As David Sheen has noted in these pages, none other than the former Chief Ra…

The Active Principle of Islam, or, Activating Islamic Principles

By Amina Wadud

…ical. When I returned to the United States after living for three years in Malaysia, where I’d had the opportunity to link my theories about Islamic theology with active social involvement, I encountered the bleakest circumstances. I found pervasive, systematic oppression and the resulting spiritual strain in the lives of ordinary people—causing most to live in utter disregard for their fellow human. I found this unbearable, so I sought answers an…

Birthday Blog

By Amina Wadud

…except for a dream about storage arrangements that included a friend from Malaysia my daughter’s cat and one of my children, no bells rang, no guns went off. My daughter kept her promise to make me breakfast and I kept my promise to myself about it: wait for her no matter how late, rather than jump the gun because I’m an early riser. Truth be told, my children have come to that place where it’s very hard to know what to do for a person who demand…

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…

Interfaith: Whose Faith?

By Amina Wadud

…t this did make me think about the phenomenon of interfaith as it is being promoted these days. First of all, this is not an idea promoted by the oppressed to invite others to celebrate their faith. It is something those already in power or with privilege extend to make an opening or orchestrate a collective. This means, those who do get invitations are usually at a disadvantage. If nothing else, it could be from the mere organizational standpoint…

Muslim Women “Warriors”

By Frances Kissling

…e last month when I participated in a five day international conference in Malaysia which brought together 250 women from 47 countries, many of them predominantly Muslim with strong links between religion and state. The conference launched the Musawah Movement, a loose network of Muslim women’s groups working to ensure that Muslim family law recognizes and operationalizes the equality of women within the family. Muslim feminists are as diverse as…

Tajwid: To Read with Love… and Competence

By Amina Wadud

…more if I had no knowledge of Arabic or of the Qur’an. A friend of mine in Malaysia was complaining that her local mosque had decided to go with an Egyptian hafiz rather than the basic eight by the local imam from his limited memorization. I don’t know why, she said, since most of us do not understand Arabic. Do they think they have to go with some Arab? I guess it must be difficult to stand and not understand, but I also think after more than 50…