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Trump’s Fear and Loathing Won’t Silence The Nation’s Sole LGBT Muslim Organization

By Omar Sarwar

…ter one force of power that wants to see all of us doomed. Urooj: I am not super optimistic about the state’s ability to not go to war with people that I love, here and abroad. In that way, I am not super optimistic, but I am optimistic about the resilience of my people. I am optimistic because we have a long history of resistance and we have created a beautiful space as LGBT Muslims that supports and cares for those who have been rejected by all…

The Avengers, Rogue Roombas, and Robot Accountability

By Hilary Ledwell and Michael Schulson

…ts might do just that. One more reasonable position is to place respondeat superior liability on working bots. That’s master-servant liability, an old rule which makes the master (or employer) liable for the injuries caused by the servant (or employee). Wackier proposals include criminal liability for bots themselves. If, for example, a weapons system went rogue and committed murder, it could undergo incarceration (being forbidden from performing…

Of Taxes, Tea, and Timidity: What Obama Should Tell the Protest’s Right-Wing Organizers

By Peter Laarman

…, for example: * That so much money is lost to offshore tax havens for the super-rich that eliminating them, according to tax expert David Cay Johnston, would allow all of us non-super-rich payers to enjoy a 12 percent reduction in our Federal income taxes. * That achieving tax fairness will be a serious matter under his Administration-that he will re-introduce progressivity by adding a range of new brackets for the very wealthy (currently the mer…

Let’s Stop Calling Rape and Harassment by Bikram Yoga Founder Just Another “Guru Scandal”

By Andrea R. Jain

…ed times the average wages of workers. Bikram himself has acknowledged his superpower, stating, “I’m beyond Superman. . . Because I have balls like atom bombs, two of them, 100 megatons each. Nobody fucks with me.” Yet Bikram bemoans, following the over $7 million order, that he is now nearly bankrupt. Well, as we have learned from Donald Trump, bankruptcy is not sufficient to destroy the super wealthy in the United States and, considering that Am…

Way Beyond Atheism: God Does Not (Not) Exist

By Paul Wallace

…eview of The God Delusion, Dawkins seems to think that God is “a celestial super-object or divine UFO,” a creature like other creatures, only bigger and smarter: a kind of uberthing, but a thing nonetheless. If God is a thing like any other thing, then his argument is really good: Any thing-making machine, which is itself a thing like any other thing, must be at least as complex as the thing it makes. In the case of God, the problem is worse, beca…

‘Hey Jesus, Do You Love Me the Same?’: Out Christian Rock Star Trey Pearson on Closeted Industry Figures, His Evolving Faith, and Brand New Video

By Chrissy Stroop

…from DC Talk and Newsboys to MxPx, Switchfoot, and Five Iron Frenzy. I got super inspired as a teen to start my own band. I went off to Indiana Wesleyan University for a year, and then after my freshman year of college decided to pursue a record deal. I had heard about Lenny Kravitz playing his music in the lobby of a record label until someone would listen to him, and I think I just felt in me that I would do whatever it took to get a record labe…

Romney Banking on Trump’s Birthers Pulling Him Over Finish Line

By Sarah Posner

…at are in some of the countries over in the Middle East, just blowing up a super market with not even soldiers, just people, when 250 people die in a super market that are shopping, where people die in a store or in a street. There’s a lot of hatred there that’s some place. Now I don’t know if that’s from the Koran. I don’t know if that’s from some place else. But there’s tremendous hatred out there that I’ve never seen anything like it. So, you h…

Trayvon Martin and American Exceptionalism

By Anthea Butler

…even have the courtesy to check Trayvon’s phone for his mom and dad’s telephone numbers because it’s just a black criminal’s body to them. While Zimmerman the trigger man slept in his bed, the police ordered a drug and alcohol test for Trayvon’s lifeless body. A black body that was representative of evil against the whiteness of George Zimmerman. I hesitated to write about this story, because there are many good stories about Trayvon and his pare…

Swiss Priest Sacked for Blessing Lesbian Couple; Mormon Equality Advocate Excommunicated; Pope-Backed Anti-Gay Referendum Fails; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…th hate from politicians and religious leaders seeking political power and cheap popularity.” She and more than 130 volunteers then distributed the magazine across the country and into some unlikely hands, including to Uganda’s Parliament, president, and other politicians, as well as churches and media outlets. Nabagesera says Bombastic has been a “big hit,” allowing her to attract correspondents in every country across the African continent. She…

After Mumbai: Winning the Global War on Terror

By Mark Woodward

…wars; both have nuclear weapons aimed at the other. Speaking by satellite phone, one of the attackers explained that he loved India, but that Muslims could not stand by while their mothers and sisters were killed. This indicates that revenge was one of the motives for the attacks. One of the consequences of this cycle of violence is that Mumbai is now a highly segregated city, so much so that Hindus now refer to traveling to a Muslim area as “goi…