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Ugandan Anti-Gay Fallout: New Laws, New Violence, New Underground Railroad

By Peter Montgomery

…nth, a unit of the Moral Protection Bureau of the judicial police raided a Turkish-style bathhouse and arrested 27 men who were allegedly seeking to have sex with other men. Five Lebanese NGOs are calling for their release. The organizations seeking the men’s release include Helem, Arab Foundation for Freedom and Equality (AFE), M-Coalition, Marsa Sexual Health Clinic and the Lebanese Medical Association for Sexual Health (LebMASH). As we noted ea…

Muslim, Immigrant, Teenager…Superhero: How Ms. Marvel Will Save the World

By Wei Zhu

…ys of comics, the feminism of the 1960s and 1970s brought with it a modest number of female characters, including the first Ms. Marvel, Carol Danvers. First appearing in 1968, and debuting on her own in 1977, Ms. Marvel was meant to be, in the words of writer Chris Claremont, a “hip, happening, 70s woman striking out on her own,” from the honorific “Ms.” to her job as the editor of Woman magazine. There was not a lot of religion in comics until th…

Fighting Terrorism Without Drones?

By Michael Schulson

…single cause, of course. But it might not be the worst idea to address terrorism with vocational training and other schooling, as the new American-Turkish initiative aims to do, and not just build more aerial robots….

Updated: Dr. Oz Thinks Anti-Muslim’s Sugar-Daddy Sheldon Adelson is “Not So Bad”

By Garibaldi

…e are the people with whom Dr. Oz danced with on Monday: *** An increasing number of individuals have lent their support to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) movement, including icons such as the physicist Stephen Hawking. The growing strength of the BDS campaign highlights the controversial nature of visiting Israel as it continues to brutally violate human rights through its occupation of Palestine. Apparently for some such “trivial” co…

If Muslims Stop Drinking Will They Become Violent?

By Haroon Moghul

…ity introduced to the Balkans?); “minarets pierce the skyline”; “Saudi and Turkish funds” support mosques that are crowded on the weekends—all of which causes us to miss the point. Where is the extremism we’re supposed to be afraid of? Is it simply a woman wearing a headscarf who’s elected and appears to be a competent leader? And if that’s the case, why are we so afraid of Muslim expressions of religiosity? In any case, it’s become clear why our…

“I’ll Pray For You”—Powerful or Pointless?

By Christine Wicker

…r problems away with the promise to do something she’d rather they didn’t. Turkish author Orhan Pamuk gave one of my favorite practices a killing clout when he noted how often praying for those we pity comforts us while distancing us from the need to do anything else. During my times as a newspaper reporter, I once asked a former nun named Elizabeth Espersen, who directed Dallas’ Thanksgiving Square, to give me an example of the best prayer. Jesus…

From Confusion to Kardashian: Misreading the Middle East

By Haroon Moghul

…k at this picture, worth 1,000 foreign policy words. It’s Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkish Foreign Minister and global thinker, on a visit to a Gaza hospital during the war. (He was joined by several Arab Foreign Ministers, including democratic Tunisia’s.) It matters that he was there. It matters that Turkey is a NATO member. It matters that he seemed genuinely affected. But who does it matter to? Who feels moved by this picture? What political ends will…

What if Israel Were in Germany? An Alternate History

By Haroon Moghul

…orthern half. Israel emerged after the mighty United Arab States, with its Turkish, Kurdish, and Persian allies, crushed the Nazis and put an end to the Holocaust. Then the Middle Easterners helped create the Jewish homeland, and remain its closest allies. This is also called alternate history. The what if instead of the what is. And since we often like to be surprised, alternate histories are usually good fun. They start you with the world as mos…

Two Cheers for British Museum’s Sanitized Hajj Exhibition

By Nabila Pathan

…to nearly three million last year. The start of the exhibition features a Turkish map compiled in 1580 placing the Ka’bah, the black stone, as an epicenter of the world. The exhibition explores the various paths of journeys undertaken to reach the central fixture of Islam through manuscripts, photographs, textiles, relics, and what it means to be a haji (a pilgrim of the Hajj). Notable hajis represented in the exhibition include Lady Evelyn Cobba…

African Religious leaders complain about Obama advocacy for LGBT rights; Ultra-Orthodox Man Stabs Jerusalem Pride Parade Marchers, Again; Struggles over sexuality in Islam, Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican Churches; Global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…te, which ruled the Sunni Muslim world for centuries and which the current Turkish government claims to emulate, was much more open-minded on this issue. Indeed, the Ottoman Empire had an extensive literature of homosexual romance, and an accepted social category of transvestites. The Ottoman sultans, arguably, were social liberals compared with the contemporary Islamists of Turkey, let alone the Arab World. Despite such arguments, the majority of…