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Not All Muslims Are Terrorists, But All Terrorists Are Muslim

By Haroon Moghul

…y, Donald Trump was gloating—only the Donald would see this as a morally appropriate response to violence—and renewing his call for a Muslim ban. But here’s the odd thing. Even as more information came out, complicating the picture, we continued to hear major media and mainstream voices insist this was nothing more than a simple act of terrorism. Even after we found out there was no operation role for ISIS, that Mateen had previously claimed to su…

The Islamophobia Election: How “Muslim” Became a Racial Identity

By Michael Schulson

…ze people in this country instead of marking them as being a part of a broader community. Most people in this country don’t know much about Muslims, or Islam, or their practices. I think that’s a problem. * * * Also on The Cubit: What Trump talks about when he talks about Islam…

Moses on Facebook, Christian Pro Soccer, Televangelist Breakfast Cereal, Child Preachers

By Michael J. Altman

…rims. The National Geographic Channel has an upcoming documentary on child preachers. In China, a Tibetan monk immolated himself in protest. He was heard calling out for Tibetan independence and the return of the Dalai Lama to Tibet. He was the second monk to self-immolate in protest in the past five months. The event spurred a lockdown of the monastery where the monk’s body was taken. The Daily Beast reports that the FLDS is secretly building a 3…

Paula White’s Coronation, “Rabbi” Messer’s “Apology,” and Great Parody

By Anthea Butler

…on of being wrong, but consisted of a rambling explanation of why it was appropriate to do what he did: the scroll wasn’t kosher, it was a Christian context, the audience didn’t know anything about Judaism or Yiddish, and the video clip was taken out of context. Messer is not even Jewish, a fact he acknowledges at one point of the video, only to say later that he is. Long and White’s obsession with becoming “royalty” through the ministrations of a…

A Solstice Devotional for the Faithless in Trump’s America

By Sunnivie Brydum

…fe and stable home environment is literally a matter of life and death. My prayer for 2017, then, is simple: I pray that we, the people, live up to the brave and beautiful example the rebels, the resisters, and the agitators have set for us. I pray that we look to our past and listen to its lessons. I pray that we turn to those who are most marginalized, who are frightened for their very existence, and ask them how we can support them. I pray that…

The Religious “Right” to Denounce Homosexuality

By Sarah Posner

…next front in the religious right’s military culture war, in which it has promoted overt proselytizing by both chaplains and officers, and in the process, portrayed the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as epic confrontations between Christianity and Islam. Now, with its military evangelists in place, the religious right is taking one of its civilian crusades — to paint homosexuality as a religious war between the equal rights of sexual minorities…

When Violence is Inevitable: Club Q and the Success of the System

By Heron Greenesmith

…are launched in the 2020s to support Black trans women facing unbearable oppression and violence, who provide cash for their clients’ rent, health care, and travel assistance. Look to the Trans Latin@ Coalition; or the Trans Safety Network, a volunteer-run opposition-monitoring shop in the UK; or the health-care crowd-raisers who gather five dollars here and ten dollars there from other low-income queer and trans people in the hope of funding gend…

‘God Made Them Male and Female…and Eunuch’: Why the Biblical Case For Binary Gender Isn’t So… Biblical

By Tony Keddie

…, celibacy was construed as androgyny with regard to gender identity and expression (being clothed with Christ means expressing as neither male nor female). But through the example of the eunuch, Matthew’s Jesus also relates celibacy to androgyny in terms of biological sex: eunuchs’ bodies are physically different from those of men, as defined in this ancient context. Franklin Graham and other conservative leaders preach that “you can’t get any cl…

Indonesia Allows Abusive Sharia Laws to Stand; Kenyan Priest Joins Challenge to Anti-LGBT Laws; Dominican Republic Bishop Slams ‘Gender Ideology’ at OAS; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…has been sentenced to life in prison plus 31 years. The convicted murderer, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish man, had only weeks before the killing been released from prison after a ten-year sentence for stabbing three people during a pride march in 2005. Moldova: Human rights activists fight proposed propaganda law Human Rights Watch released a letter to legislators urging them to reject a proposed anti-gay “propaganda” law that would target “assemblies,…

Religious Resistance to Bolivian Gender Law; US Religious Right Celebrates Court OK For Romanian Marriage Initiative; Will LGBTs Be Banned from Indonesian TV?; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ease taking some credit for the Constitutional Court of Romania granting approval to a proposed voter initiative to constitutionally restrict marriage to a man and a woman, which Liberty Counsel called “a major victory for natural marriage and the right of Romanian citizens to determine their own destiny.” Liberty Counsel had filed an amicus brief in the case, which cited, among other things, the infamous and widely discredited Mark Regnerus study…