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Muslim Mickey Mouse Tweet by Christian Billionaire Sparks Controversy

…ypt’s most prominent Coptic Christians and the founder of the new, liberal Free Egyptians Party (FEP). In recent weeks, the altered Mickey and Minnie image had been widely circulated. An email with the title “This is the future of Egypt” had been bouncing around Cairo’s inboxes prior to its use by Sawiris. Kim Fox, a journalism professor at the American University of Cairo, believes that the uproar should be viewed in the context of ongoing sectar…

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The War on Terror is Over; Tahrir Buried It

…ive role in the new government, and that the days of religious violence in Egypt are over. Later I met with an old friend, one of Egypt’s leading sociologists and human rights activists, Saad Eddin Ibrahim, who had been imprisoned by Mubarak’s regime. After his release he was threatened with new charges, which led him on a self-imposed exile for several years. When he returned, he met with some of his old cellmates, also released, in a sort of reu…

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Emad Effat, Shaykh of Egyptian Revolution, Shot Dead During Protest

…fferent had it been a Coptic monk that had been murdered? And yet, even in Egypt few seem to know of the killing, because the state media (the main source of information for most Egyptians) has virtually ignored it too. How could they credibly explain the death of an unarmed, nonviolent Muslim cleric in the midst of a conflict between protesters and the military (which was clearly using live ammunition) without pointing the finger of blame at some…

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Why Egypt is America’s Enemy

…othing of it, but took whatever potential it had and drowned it in the Nile. Those who failed so many times before are not suddenly going to succeed. Because, as we saw yesterday, and as we saw so many times before, the Egyptian military does not care about Egyptians. It cares about itself. It’s no different than so many of the institutions and movements that claim to empower the Arab world and Middle East, but do nothing for it….

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Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap

…s of the kingdom”. These vague provisions allow authorities to arbitrarily use the law to limit free expression. To make matters worse, authorities’ responses stoked the widespread animus against LGBT people in Jordan. In response to Tahboub’s inquiry, which remains private, the ministers of justice and the interior wrote separate official letters to the minister of political and parliamentary affairs, declaring their broad intolerance of LGBT peo…

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What Ben Carson’s Pyramid Theory Might Say About His Foreign Policy

…serts revered figures of the Biblical tradition into the starring roles of Egypt’s history. Hoeh’s assertion that Egypt’s most revered structure was built by the Israelites Job and Joseph is followed by a territorial claim. The Great Pyramid, says Hoeh, was constructed by the Biblical Job with the help of Joseph “to commemorate what Joseph did for Egypt and to mark the border of the territory given to Joseph’s family in the land of Egypt by Pharao…

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Australian Church Leaders See Marriage Vote as Battle for Soul of Australia: Global LGBT Recap 10/30

…y,” were deported: Local police chief Lazaro Mambosasa said they had been “promoting homosexuality”. “Tanzanian law forbids this act between people of the same sex, it is a violation of our country’s laws,” said Mambosasa. Just days later an NGO, the Community Health Education Services and Advocacy (CHESA) centre, was suspended on the same charge and accused of organising a workshop at the Peacock hotel. CHESA and ISLA insisted they were merely co…

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Mormon Leader Affirms Doctrine on Marriage; and More in Global LGBT Recap

…iscrimination for the Immigration Department to base its definition of ‘spouse’ on a marriage between a man and a woman,” says the South China Morning Post, “it also made clear that granting a dependent visa to QT was not an official validation of same-sex unions.” Northern Ireland: Government Stalemate Puts Spotlight on DUP The Independent reports on British Prime Minister Theresa May’s alliance with the Democratic Unionist Party has put the DUP…

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How the Conspiratorial American Right is Spinning the Egypt Protests

…to realize it’s not good.” He then goes on to compare what’s happening in Egypt to the Islamic revolution in Iran — a theory that Haroon Moghul has ably debunked here at RD. Then Christian talk radio host and evangelist Michael Youssef announced that he would be appearing on CNN through out the day: “Before you judge the motives of the protesters, you must know who is really behind those young people on the streets,” stated Michael Youssef, Ph.D….

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Egypt Protests Upset Assumptions About the
Arab World

…s would turn out. One thing is clear, however: for the protests to topple the regime, the numbers on the streets must reach into the millions—not an especially far-fetched goal for a nation of 80 million. But whether or not Mubarak goes the way of Ben Ali, something has changed in Egypt and in the region. A young, Harvard educated Egyptian lawyer put it best, writing the following on Facebook the morning after: “As I walked back from work, everyth…

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