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No Turkey for Me: Confessions of an Indian Militant

…ny federal lands not in use will revert back to the Indians. While you eat turkey, we will fast, or eat hot dogs. Over the years Indian militants have also been called communists, fascists, socialists, and radicals bent on destroying America. In fact, those names—which cancel each other out in any logical mind—have been applied in recent months to another tribal man, Luo of Kenya, who occupies the Oval Office at the moment. As an Indian militant I…

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Syria Receives Sudanese Weapons on Ukrainian Aircraft via Qatar and Turkey

…pparently making their way, on Ukrainian aircraft, to Syria, via Qatar and Turkey. Of course the latter countries’ involvement means these are not helping Bashar, unless you think his overthrow is good for his long-term life plans. This means that the Sunni Islamist regime in North Africa, closely allied to China and Iran, is shipping locally- and Chinese-made weapons to Syrian rebels who are fighting against a regime whose survival is critical to…

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An American Muslim Responds to Muslim Orgs Questioning Armenian Genocide

…s when Muslims were themselves on the receiving end. It does not deny that Turkey also welcomed many refugees, and continues to. It does not demand we dismiss the genocidal and xenophobic violence many of these largely Muslim populations fled from. Turkey can hold its head high in this regard: It has long been a place of safety for many. But recognizing the Armenian genocide opens the door to discussions of other crimes against other peoples, as w…

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Trans Protections in India and Malta; Death-by-Stoning Law in Brunei; Church-State Divides on Marriage

…he race in his constituency, becoming the only LGBT friendly mayor outside Turkey’s biggest metropolis. Homosexuality is legal in Turkey but discrimination and anti-gay violence persist; efforts to include constitutional protections failed when a new draft constitution was defeated last November. Turkey’s Islamist administration has announced that the government will construct separate prisons for openly gay or transgender inmates, something the g…

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2023 in Review: Year One Without Roe, GOP Code Red, SCOTUS Gone Wild… and a Ray of Hope

…se FedSoc publicly casts itself as a non-partisan debate club, though, the code effectively protects Neil Gorsuch’s sacred right to don a bow tie next time FedSoc conclave rolls around. This ethics code exists largely as a marketing tool for reporters willing to buy what the FedSoc Six are selling, but also as cover for the justices’ clear preferences. Its language, which allows justices to participate in “a nonprofit civic, charitable, educationa…

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When Religion Kills: The Narco-Traffickers of the Borderlands

…nt, and a pledge at the end. A final admonition declares that breaking the Code will result in immediate execution. The Code is illustrated with images pulled from a website promoting the 2007 Swedish film Arn: The Knights Templar. This past spring, copies of the Code were mysteriously distributed across Michoacan. Like La Familia, members of the Knights Templar must refrain from drugs and must commit to routine drug testing, but unlike La Famila…

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The Jersey Shores of Tripoli: MTV and Arab Revolution

…China’s rise, and began to look to their own country with dissatisfaction. Turkey Turkey brings it even closer to home. In the last few decades, the average Egyptian has barely seen his salary rise, while Turkey’s GDP rose by 300 percent. Turkey has raced past Iran to become dominant in the Middle East, and has done so with a curious blend of secularization and an originally Islamist party repeatedly elected to power. In short: Egypt watched its s…

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Will Istanbul Ever Be a Part of the European Union?

…ay Turkish membership talks go forward, and enough Europeans are convinced Turkey won’t dilute whatever it is they want Europe to be. By the time Europe gets over its economic crisis and Turkey clears its hurdles, this country may well be more populous than Germany, making it the largest in the EU.   Would Europe be okay with that? The Turks I’ve talked to so far, an admittedly small sample, generally feel Europe will accept them, because it must….

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Updated with Audio: Secular Good, Muslim Bad: Unveiling Tunisia’s Revolution

…nstructive example (trivial tidbit: Tunisia’s flag is a deliberate echo of Turkey’s, since the territory was part of the Ottoman Empire for centuries.) In Turkey, a popular, democratically elected party, many of whose members are individually pious, is using the ballot box to push an unelected secular elite out of its privileged statist position. If we don’t get this dynamic, we won’t get Muslim politics. I’m not talking about a religious agenda d…

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Pope Denounces Gender Colonization; Indonesian Court Considers Islamist Request To Criminalize Homosexuality; Egypt’s Grand Mufti Says No One Has Right to Harm Homosexuals; Global LGBT Recap

…” the organisation recorded five murders, 32 attacks and three suicides in Turkey last year. It believes the number of such murders over the past six years is more than 50. Syrian gay refugees in Turkey suffer even more, as their legal status is precarious – they are usually undocumented and most are reluctant to report assaults to police, our reporter says. The Turkish authorities cited “safeguarding security and public order” as the reason for b…

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