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Seventh-Day Adventists & Gay ‘Cures’; Legal Victory for Kenyan LGBTs; Political, Religious Leaders Spar on LGBT Issues in UK; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ased, openly gay Muslim,” secretly videotaped his journey to Mecca on his iPhone and other small phones. “I was terrified because they reserve the death penalty for people like me,” Sharma said. Several times he had his equipment seized and video files deleted by authorities. But he persevered with both his spiritual journey and his film. “I was there making this pilgrimage for the thousands of gay Muslims who were too scared to go to Saudi Arabia…

The Bleeding Heart of Muslim Europe

By Haroon Moghul

…cts challenges Ataturk’s legacy (especially his late 19th-century romantic European nationalism), the older truths of Turkey’s Ottoman heritage gain visibility. Not to resurrect empire, but to rediscover the differences that were forcibly suppressed in the transition to republican rule. You could say, discovering Turkey’s Eastern European roots was part of its self-discovery of democracy. And so it made sense to start with Istanbul and then head t…

The Jersey Shores of Tripoli: MTV and Arab Revolution

By Haroon Moghul

…. Japan defeated Russia in East Asia, then sat around waiting for Russia’s European navy to show up (it took many months to navigate around Africa), and then, once that showed up, they sunk all of that, too. People across the Middle East found inspiration in a non-white, non-Christian, non-European power, thinking: If they can do it, why can’t we? The tyranny of low expectations, of longstanding assumptions of inherent cultural inferiority, was sh…

White Nationalist Ideology Shines Through at Elite MAGA Conference: Inside NatCon Part II

By Ben Lorber

…ivations. “I’ve come to the point of view,” Tanton said in 1993, “that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.” Organizations in the Tanton network, such as the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), played a major role in setting immigration policy during the Trump administration, and remain influential on the Right. The CIS panelists focus on curbing immigra…

Did You Read About Conservative Judaism’s Anti-Black Antisemitic Smearing of Hebrew Israelites? Neither Did I

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…antisemitism, which turns White racial hierarchies on their head. Whereas European antisemitism designated European Jews as not racially pure and therefore not culturally compatible with modern Western civilization, anti-Black antisemitism is the result of the Whitening of the Jews from Europe and the parts of the Arab world in the US who then erected a racial barrier between themselves and “Blacks as Jews.” Sadly, it’s an inverted internalizatio…

Atheists Ignore Islamophobia at their Peril

By Chris Stedman

…atheists for the tragedy, an accusation that a sizable majority of atheist websites then addressed. RationalWiki, an atheist wiki featuring a newsfeed and articles like “Atheism FAQ for the Newly Deconverted,” contained no mention of the Sikh shooting, but it did list an instance where a Florida door-to-door salesman was shot, and noted the recent mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado. PZ Myers, who is among the most visible atheist bloggers in the wo…

Forget the Pope—We Need a New Caliph!

By Haroon Moghul

…hing—more than ethnic origin, race, or gender. Babic is a practicing white European woman in a scarf representing 51% of the world’s gender. How many Muslim leaders are women? Bam! Plus: she’s the elected mayor of a Bosnian town, which means she can handle Eastern European men—an added bonus. Wham! She’s won praise for her administration, commitment, and seriousness, which means she can finally get Muslim events to start on time. Plus, she’d remov…

Why America’s Whitewashed Thanksgiving Needs to Go: A Short Study in the Power of White Christian Mythmaking

By Peter Laarman

…scern a providential hand hovering high above your own pillaging hands. No European colonists did this rationalization better serve than the English Protestants, with their sense of themselves as a chosen New Israel. Cotton Mather’s monumental Magnalia Christi Americana is only the most famous among a plethora of “memorials” in English celebrating the role of God’s mighty hand in the white settlement of North America. One Mayflower passenger recor…

Lying About Our Religion, And Other Problems With Polling

By Michael Schulson

…icult work. It’s even harder because The Public doesn’t like to answer its phones. Some people are more difficult to reach than others, such that these representative samples may not be so representative. Wuthnow points out that response rates for surveys have been declining steadily over the decades. Today, even a high-quality Pew study is unlikely to get even 25% of its randomly selected households to respond. Some recent Pew reports have reache…

Are You There God? It’s Me, Donald: A President at Prayer

By Peter Laarman

…een a good conversation. You’ve been great. So great. I’ve always been the best at praying. You know who told me that? Billy Graham himself. He told me, “Donald, you pray better than I do, and I am the most famous Christian in the world.” He told me that last week in a great, great phone call. Oh, and Fred Douglass. I need to get his input, too. Just this morning I told them, the great African Americans who supported me completely, what an amazing…