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Trump Order A ‘Death Sentence’ For Some LGBT Refugees? Global LGBT Recap

…tated during my hearing, I strongly believe that the US should unabashedly promote American values. If confirmed, I will work to advance human rights for everyone.” Likewise, Senator Shaheen asked, “If confirmed, will you work to further the rights of LGBT individuals around the world? Will you continue U.S. participation in the LGBT core group? What other actions will you take to further this important issue?” Ambassador Haley answered, “As I sta…

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The Folly of Arab-West (Elite-Elite) Dialogue

…societies where Arabs and/or Muslims are demographic majorities—including Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc. Comments during this meeting in Cairo showed that there are many in Europe who choose to ignore that—and they do so at their own peril. The second, and perhaps most important problem considering the new openness spreading across the Arab world, is that the West tends to act before it listens. This is a new day, in a new world, an…

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Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

…tment to improving the country’s human rights record. It’s also an ominous signal of the government’s disregard for the rights of the LGBT community and religious minorities. Government-fueled animus has stoked a surge in anti-LGBT incidents across Indonesia since January 2016—in synch with broader rising intoleranceof religious minorities. The blasphemy law has increasingly been used to prosecute and imprison members of religious minorities. Whil…

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‘Anti-Romeo’ Vigilante Squads Target Men Suspected Of Being Gay; More in the Global LGBT Recap

…l Justice Reform “has lambasted the Aceh administration’s Islamic criminal code bylaw, or Qanun Jinayat, saying it could potentially provoke discrimination and over-criminalization of LGBT communities and other vulnerable groups.” The Aceh province is governed by the conservative Islamist legal code. Notes the Jakarta Post: Qanun Jinayat imposes criminal sanctions on both Muslims and non-Muslims found to have consumed liquor, dated in public or ca…

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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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Clergy May Soon Find Taxes Soaring As Result of an Under-the-Radar Ruling

…r non-religious counterparts. “I do not doubt that many ministers are paid significantly less than what their commitment and skill level would suggest. This is an unfortunate truth that applies to many devoted and talented employees in service professions,” Crabb wrote. “However, the manner in which Congress alleviated a financial burden on a group of religious persons was neither required by the free exercise clause nor prohibited by the establis…

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The Roots of the American Right’s Muslim Brotherhood Panic

…que”) project, is part of this plot: Muslim Brotherhood started in 1920 in Egypt, thereabouts. And its main effort is to restore the call caliphate, through stealthy means, in the West. It is very much present here. In fact, any Muslim American organization in this country of any prominence is a Muslim Brotherhood front. We know that from the Holy Land Foundation trial in Dallas, Texas. And unfortunately, this network, like every other, bringing t…

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Looking at Libya, and at Ourselves

…arger population. As Haroon points out, these events were feared to be the sign of an Arab winter after the Arab Spring, and that the Arab world really was violently reactionary.  Today’s events show us something else: rational actors, who died tried to protect the American who gave so much to them. There are numerous reports of Libyans dying protecting the compound where Ambassador Chris Stevens was killed, taking him to a hospital, and having bo…

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Egyptians vs. The Police

…f the escaped convicts and looters, who were out in their thousands across Egypt. One has to remember: the very basis of the social contract in this region is that the state provides security. It’s what formed the basis of Islamic governance for centuries — from the very first Muslim community in Madinah in the 7th century, up until now, the basis of governance was the ability to provide security from internal and external forces of aggression. Be…

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What Was Your Sign?, Pro-War MLK, & Benched for a Headscarf

…a relationship written in the stars but it’s not working out? Your zodiac sign may be wrong. It turns out the calender is off by about a month. Pope John Paul II will be beatified on May 1st. In England, three former Anglican priests were ordained as Catholic priests on Saturday. The priests recognize the Pope as their leader but their parishes keep Anglican rites. During a commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy, a Pentagon lawyer argue…

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