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Global Religious Right Asks ‘How Far Can We Get?’; And More in the Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Rights Watch has consistently criticized in countries as diverse as Iran, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Nigeria, among others. International human rights law supports the principle that everyone should be able form a family as he or she sees fit. Guatemala: Evangelical leaders back ban on marriage equality, prison sentences for abortion Legislation banning same-sex couples from getting married was introduced in Guatemala; the bill would also imprison…

At the UN, Conservative Christian Agenda Cloaked in Human Rights Language

By Austin Dacey

…ution passed with support from a coalition of twenty-six nations including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, China, India, Venezuela, Russia, and the African Group. Opposing the resolution were Austria, Chile, Czech Republic, Estonia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Montenegro, Korea, Romania, UK, and the United States. Reprisals are expected during the current session of the Council. The positioning of “the family” as the best protector of children…

The “F” Word: Feminism in Islam

By Amina Wadud

…ose from what ever means necessary to achieve the aims of empowerment. The better means for most secular Muslims would be the U.N. instruments like CEDAW (the convention on the elimination of discrimination against women). If there appears to be a conflict between the documents and Islam, then the documents should rule. Of course that did not sit well with the vast majority of Muslims who identify with Islam so the next voice that rose, we tend to…

A King for Jesus: What the Religious Right Sees in Trump

By Roger O. Friedland

…hief of staff and closest advisor, Huma Abedin, an Indian Muslim raised in Saudi Arabia. The sources of threat and emasculation sit at the table. Insidious workings are afoot. Trump is the political master of conspiracy theories, of infiltration and deceit, imagining amazing things such as the Chinese invention of global warming to undercut American production. Right-wing religious, too, tend to look behind the surface flux for both divine and nef…

Barack Obama: High Priest-in-Chief?

By Matthew Avery Sutton

…Saddam Hussein against Iran, and stationing thousands of soldiers in Saudi Arabia. This, as Obama well knows, is the primary (though certainly not the only) reason Al Qaeda has targeted the United States. The religious diatribes of a handful of zealots are secondary. They provide window dressing for what is at its root a conflict over land, influence, and oil. Maintaining American influence in the Middle East has been (and likely remains) in the b…

Reporting from Paris During COP21: A Haunted Sabbath

By Donna Schaper

…s. GreenFaith did its daily broadcast, once again targeting the bad guy of Saudi Arabia and wondering how they had spent their Sunday. They did not appear to have a brunch invitation. I walked by a totally dark Chinese embassy, which, nonetheless, had enormous security, and a totally lit French Assembly. They were working there. I also made the visit I didn’t want to make to Place Republique, knowing that it would be like things were after 9/11. M…

Virtual Islam: Peace, Love, and Some Understanding?

By Bill Berkowitz

…oject is threefold: 1. Foreign policy-makers and practitioners who need to better understand how technology is reshaping the landscape of how and where they practice cultural outreach and messaging; 2. Corporations, NGOs and nonprofits who want to better understand the culture of virtual worlds; and 3. Ordinary people who want insight into the changing face of internet communities. The people we interviewed for the report are a cross-section of vi…

State Department Finds Religion, But Whose?

By Melani McAlister

…uth Sudan in 2010. But the law plays virtually no role in US policy toward Saudi Arabia, given that, for 15 years, the president has waived sanctions on the basis of US national security interests.) More recently, people generally mean that the US should engage “religious actors,” particularly groups on the ground in the Global South. Sometimes these groups are doing humanitarian work and may help implement US development programs. In theory, I’m…

The Shari’ah Spring: Media Gets It Backwards

By Haroon Moghul

…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…

Dilemmas of American Empire: Can Obama Pull Off a Game-Changer in Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan?

By Gary Dorrien

…t without igniting a horrible civil war, one that Iran, Syria, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia would not sit out. The best hope is that Iraqis will decide for integration and sovereignty, but it is up to them to decide whether they want a unitary state, a decentralized federation, three nations, or something else. I don’t want President Obama to make that decision or to commit U.S. troops to one of these outcomes. We must hold the Obama Administration to…