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Gambian Prez Rails Against Gay ‘Evil Empire’; Irish Priest Comes Out During Mass; Trans Talk on Tunisian TV Sparks Debate; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…That’s up from 5 percent in 1910, when 65 percent of the faithful were in Europe, according to a Pew Research Center’s survey. Europe now accounts for less than a quarter of world Catholics. Gambia: President Rails Against Gays (Again) President Yahya Jammeh, who has made anti-gay tirades a staple of his political positioning, gave a speech portraying homosexuality as counter to Islam and the Bible. The Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers reports:…

Breivik’s Religious Pluralist Vision: A COEXIST Bumper Sticker Without the Crescent

By Michael J. Altman

…lobal Islamic Ummah.” While Breivik wants to ban race-mixing and limit the number of non-Europeans in his future Europe, he is quite happy to offer assistance “to our Buddhist and Hindu brothers if they request our help against Jihadi attacks or campaigns.” In the end, as long as everyone stays within their own ethno-religious territory, all is well. Fences make good neighbors in the wake of the clash of civilizations. Breivik hoped conservatives…

Religious Resistance to Bolivian Gender Law; US Religious Right Celebrates Court OK For Romanian Marriage Initiative; Will LGBTs Be Banned from Indonesian TV?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…cy of their choice over and above the dictates of pro-homosexual forces in Europe and beyond.” The European arm of the American Center for Law and Justice also filed a memorandum in the case Indonesia: Will LGBT content be banned from TV? As we have been reporting, religious and political leaders have been responsible for a wave of anti-LGBT rhetoric this year. Now it looks as if LGBT content could be banned from the airwaves. The Jakarta Post’s N…

Dear Amazon Prime, I’m Not a Racist, But Why Are You Destroying My Precious Middle-Earth With Black Hobbits?

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…hat these works are based on European folklore. This folklore is rooted in European history, and we all know that Europe has always been white. Sirs, I am a patriot. Why are you changing history and including Black hobbits in this fantasy story that I have loved and imagined as presumptively all-white since I first read these works in 1979? You are literally destroying my childhood. As far as I know, Tolkien never had any good non-white characters…

The Forgotten History Behind Islamophobia and Anti-Muslim Terrorism

By Edward E. Curtis IV

…Though the Muslim Ottoman Empire clearly sought to expand its territory in Europe, where it became one of several European powers jostling for territories, it also sought Christian allies. In 1453, for example, Ottoman admiral Barbarossa, an Albanian, helped French King Francois besiege the forces of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V in Nice. Thousands of Tatar Muslims helped to fight for Poland in the Battle of Warsaw in 1656, and in 1791, the Pol…

Will the Next Pope Hail from Outside Europe?

By Sarah Posner

…I did a quick bloggingheads with Anthea Butler about the legacy of Benedict XVI, what’s in store for his successor, and who that might be. In this clip, Anthea takes a look at some of the possible candidates:…

‘Iconoclash’ of Civilizations: Missives from the Image Wars

By Eric M. Gurevitch

…oves that such wars have already been waged and won. The recent history of Europe confirms that democracies eventually vanquish totalitarianism and fascism. We cannot doubt the Europe views itself at war, and, as Marion notes, this is not a new war. But the wars go back further than the Seventeenth-Century, and more often than not totalitarianism and fascism came out on top. In the days after the attack, 37 people in France were investigated for g…

Brexit Boosters: Why the Religious Right Hates the European Union

By Peter Montgomery

…ood and abortion.” Hildingsson decried those who she said seek to “use the European Union as a lever for exerting pressure on Central and Eastern Europe whose people seek to preserve the age-old traditions and spiritual values.” American Religious Right groups like the Alliance Defense Fund, the American Center for Law and Justice, and the National Organization for Marriage are among those who take a global approach to the culture war, and work cl…

Behind a Recent Stunt in Idaho Lies a Dangerous Theocratic Movement

By Chrissy Stroop

…serious danger to women and trans men, were introduced by Herndon. In her phone interview with RD, Abbott brought up the December 22 service as an example of likely illegal political organizing by a tax-exempt church, which she says is one of her biggest concerns. A self-described “fourth-generation Bonner County girl” who forthrightly states, “I deeply care about consensus issues; I hate political parties,” Abbot referred to the year of Trump’s…

Exclusive: Columnist Jonathan Merritt on his Sudden Departure From Religion News Service

By Kaya Oakes

…lete Socolovsky from the email chain. When Merritt’s assistant scheduled a phone meeting with Gallagher to discuss the contract in April of this year, Gallagher never informed Socolovsky about it. When Merritt finally reached Gallagher on the phone in April of this year, he says Gallagher was “placing the blame [for the delay] on Jerome” for not reading Merritt’s emails, which “was all very weird and unprofessional, and it made me uncomfortable.”…