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Huckabee Calls For Civil Disobedience, Utterly Misreads MLK, Jr.

…uples. The third criterion Dr. King identifies is that “an unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself. This is difference made legal. By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself. This is sameness made legal.” For same sex couples to have legal access just like heterosexual couples…

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Why We Can’t Afford to “Wait And See” How Trump Dismantles LGBT Rights

…lection. Then point out the evidence—that’s piling up already—suggesting they’ve been duped by a con-man who just last week admitted that he didn’t think anyone would take his pledge to “keep jobs in America” seriously. Call 1-844-USA-0234 and enter your zip code to be connected with your representatives in Washington. Tell them why you oppose each nominee, and keep calling. Ask your friends and neighbors to do the same. Use the liberal bubble so…

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Sacred Texting: When Religious Writ Gets Wired

…to recite the prayers. In response, a poster quotes the twentieth century Saudi Arabian Muslim scholar Sheikh Muhammad b. Sâlih al-`Uthaymîn as arguing against this use of a text, as it distracts from the bodily movements required in Muslim prayer. The poster likened this fatwa’s proscriptions to the use of iPods, advising the new Muslim to avoid it during prayer. There is also the issue of the virtual relay of religiously significant messages an…

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Trump’s “Muslim Ban” A Gift to Terrorists

…is not coincidental that countries with actual histories of terrorism like Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates are not on the list. His actions are about fear and the utility of that fear for his political agenda. Alongside the history of coexistence is a history of intolerance. From the anti-Irish Catholic Know-Nothing Party, to the Asian Exclusion Act, to the internment of people of Japanese ancestry, this country has vacillated on the razo…

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My Lowest Point

…oint, and this party of five would see me through until my entire visit to Saudi Arabia was completed. It is not true that my only contribution was 100 riyal. When we left the Ramy Jamarat, I was the only one who knew the way back to our tents in Mina because I had carefully plotted the course from the first time I made Ramy with our tour leader. We rejoined our camp around 11 p.m.—then, my last night in Mina was over. One last Ramy Jamarat and I…

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Donald Trump Scares LGBT People Worldwide and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

…e” of anti-LGBT countries: Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Vatican City under a Trump presidency. Just last week a bloc of 54 African states attempted to oust the newly appointed U.N. LGBT monitor Vitit Muntarbhorn. The states introduced a resolution to do away with his new position that is expected to have nearly unanimous support from the Organization for Islamic Cooperation, whose member states have resisted upholdin…

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The Shari’ah Spring: Media Gets It Backwards

…intellect. When journalists discuss Islamic politics, they often reach for Saudi Arabia, Iran, or Afghanistan. But that form of Islamic politics, authoritarian and draconian, has been discredited. Mostly by itself, without much need for foreign intervention (but, keep in mind, that doesn’t mean America’s stock has risen). Most of the popular Islamist figures in the Arab world today are all about democracy, although they articulate their interest i…

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Dispatches From the Site of a Massacre

…t “real Islam” is 1) not to be found in Indonesia, but 2) found instead in Saudi Arabia or Iran, where it’s magically “unadulterated,” 3) therefore revealing real Islam as irredeemably toxic. Muslims themselves deploy a similar language, tying Arabness and Islam or Pakistani-ness and Islam, judging any other experience inferior and derivative.  But Islam has been in Bosnia for as long as it’s been in much of India, where my family’s from. It’s pos…

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“The Left” and Islamists to Bring Down Judeo-Christian America

…don’t know where the money comes from before asserting that it comes from Saudi Arabia) in “residential neighborhoods where there are no Muslims… If you build it they will come.” But building a worship center isn’t a protected religious right, according to Guandolo, “this isn’t about the First Amendment it’s about Article 6 of the Constitution.” Ironically, while Article 6 lays out the sovereignty of the laws of the United States. it is also proh…

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The Jihadi Revolution is Dead (But Bin Laden’s Death Didn’t Kill It)

…was the Green Revolution in Iran in 2009. The current protests in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Libya face an uncertain end. Failure of nonviolent revolution has, in the past, been the occasion for renewed acts of violence. So the jihadi warriors may again have their day. For the moment, however, bin Laden is dead, and Tahrir Square has challenged both the strategic value and the moral legitimacy of the jihadi stance. The legion of young Muslim activ…

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