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Will International Criminal Court Bring Charges Against ISIS For Gender-Based Persecution?; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…gal equality: The government continues to retain Section 377A of the Penal Code, which criminalizes sex between men. The law is sandwiched between codes that ban sex with corpses (Section 377) and sex with animals (Section 377B) in the Penal Code, indication of official attitudes towards homosexuality in the wealthy city-state. Convictions under 377A allow for two-year prison terms. In a bid to placate both liberals and conservatives, the governme…

‘Id Mubarak and Many Happy Returns!

By Amina Wadud

…r what their religion. There are also different greetings. In Malaysia and Indonesia, the day of celebration translates into Hari Raya. They both give some variation on that greeting I described when I talked about forgiveness: maaf zahir dan batin, “forgive me any offenses, whether knowingly or unknowingly.” They also say selamat Hari Raya, selamat being the sort of universal word for peace, good, safety, etc. In Arabic they say kullu ‘aamin wa a…

The Morning After

By Amina Wadud

…. But not just physically better prepared, ritually as well. Before I left Indonesia, I worked to get a lot closer to the required five times daily prayers than was my own norm. I cannot function normally through out the day without that pre-sunrise fajr prayer, but honestly speaking none of the others have that same regularity. They are more touch-and-go inconsistent. Making this decision while still in Indonesia was a piece of cake. Everywhere y…

French “Burqa Ban”: It’s Not About Religion

By Amina Wadud

…ir bodies on the auction block. So I resumed wearing hijab until I went to Indonesia. To be certain, there are the politics of women’s dress everywhere, including in Indonesia. But I lived in a small suburban town, almost a village, and at least close enough to a village where the overwhelming majority of women are Muslim. Many do cover if they go to the city or to their jobs. But where they lived communally, head-covering was not a part of their…

When Is Hosni Mubarak?

By Haroon Moghul

…side for them). I can think of two powers that would have to be involved: Indonesia and Turkey. Indonesia, because it is the world’s largest Muslim democracy, and is far enough away to be presumed neutral. More important still is Turkey, the power in the region with the diplomatic skill and flexibility to handle this charge. If we ask ourselves, who else would the Egyptian people trust, we would find ourselves forced to admit that in the last wee…

Huckabee on Obama vs. “Average Americans”

By Sarah Posner

…Lincoln. Huckabee realized later that Obama spent part of his childhood in Indonesia, not Kenya, and despite failing to take on Malzberg’s birtherism on the air, admitted that he knows Obama was born in Hawaii. Here’s Huckabee’s statement, in which he goes on to wonder if Obama is a real American: “Governor Huckabee simply misspoke when he alluded to President Obama growing up in ‘Kenya.’ The Governor meant to say the President grew up in Indonesi…

Tornado Hits the Heartland: Is God Punishing Us?

By Jay Michaelson

…about the time some Christian fundamentalists said that he 2005 tsunami in Indonesia was punishment for, in the words of one, “worldliness, materialism, hedonism, uncleanness and pleasure-seeking”? Where are these self-proclaimed prophets of Godly vengeance now? Do storms only evince heavenly displeasure when they land on blue states? Finding the hand of God in the vagaries of barometric pressure has a time-honored history, after all. Hurricane Ka…

Dispatches From the Site of a Massacre

By Haroon Moghul

…ically Muslim. This frame’s even used by those who consider it charitable: Indonesia’s Islam is often described as syncretic, which means moderate, implying that “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,…

Make Aeronautic Jobs, Not Jihad

By Haroon Moghul

…at’s the world growing together. The Muslim world’s democratic convulsions—Indonesia preceded the Arab world by roundabout a decade—are responses to economic lethargy, with booming populations ravenous for rights, dignity, and prosperity. In short, thank the world’s largest Muslim nation, Indonesia, for a big order signed on the occasion of President Obama’s visit (230 planes at $21.7 billion!). And thank one of the world’s fastest-growing airline…

What in the Name of the Crusades are Tennessee Evangelicals Doing in Kurdish Iraq?

By Bill Berkowitz

…rnational has widened its presence, establishing bases in Turkey, Liberia, Indonesia, Germany, and Norway. Can you describe how Servant Group International operates? What is especially distinctive about SGI—and its partners—is its development of a military model of evangelism (‘spiritual warfare’), which includes covert action tactics (‘tentmaking’), intelligence gathering (‘spiritual mapping’). They have an ingrained animosity to Islam, and their…