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Rick Santorum, Muslim Theologian and GOP Candidate, Would Bomb Iran

…t if he were president, he’d be happy to see all homosexuals sent to Saudi Arabia. Santorum wants the end times and the return of Jesus, so others must as well. If there’s something that he can latch on to, like the idea of the Mahdi, then he will. He’ll tell you killing gays is bad when other people do it, but he doesn’t denounce it directly or disavow it himself. And really, Santorum is supposed to be Catholic, but he seems not to understand bas…

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Clarion Fund Claims Times Square Bombing Attempt Proof of “Coordinated Jihad Against Western Values”

…e synagogue in Alexandria, Va., is “the protocols of the learned elders of Saudi Arabia.” Rabbi Moline, named by Newsweek this year as one of the country’s top 25 pulpit rabbis, added, “The integrity of our own Jewish community requires that people speak up critically” about the film. Hadar Susskind, Washington director of the Jewish Council on Public Affairs, American Jewry’s official umbrella group for domestic issues, termed the content of “Obs…

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State Department Finds Religion, But Whose?

…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…

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

…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…

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Virtual Islam: Peace, Love, and Some Understanding?

…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…

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The “F” Word: Feminism in Islam

…y with Islam. Either/Or Why do people still think Muslim women must choose between identity as Muslims and identity with freedoms, human rights, dignity and democracy? For the first few decades of my work on gender I refused to accept the label “feminist,” because of the politics of its use in the west. I gave my own title: pro-faith, pro-feminist. I was adamant that I would not bargain one against the other. This is probably because in the contex…

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

…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…

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Jesus, Carpet Bomb My Heart: An Undercover Muslim in Detroit

…al closed with his conversion story, and a reminder that since converting, Saudi Arabia, the PLO, and the Muslim Brotherhood had all put a price on his head. All the friendly diversity from Friday night, the warm and smiley openness, had vanished. Love and freedom were convenient catchphrases justifying the identification of nearly one-quarter of humanity with the demonic. It’s one thing to say that you’d like Muslims to convert to Christianity. F…

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Egyptian Fatwa Gives Neighbors Right to Dissolve Marriages

…thing tells me that this fatwa will not change the mindset that rejects these issues and meddles in other, less important affairs. While collectivist societies often have a strong sense of community and neighborliness, this story and last week’s arrest and sentencing of an elderly woman in Saudi Arabia for having two younger men in her home while she was alone prove that predominately Muslim countries need less community intervention in their priv…

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Indonesia Hears Islamist Arguments For LGBT Criminalization; Zambian Churches Oppose Condom Distribution in Prisons; Lithuanian Conservative Manifesto Calls LGBTs Enemies of Freedom; Global LGBT Recap

…t stands with – the new enslavers of Lithuania, those who will destroy our freedom, or with its own Nation, aiming to remain free.” Church of England: Gay clergy plan coming out about their marriages The Times reports that a dozen Church of England clergy are preparing to go public with the fact that they have married their same-sex partners in defiance of church rules. “Half of the signatories had already declared themselves to be in a same-sex m…

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