Morality Police, Jihadists, Religious Competition, Grindr, & Americans Abroad: Global LGBT Recap
…rican traditions, however, for such traditions, like the Hausa practice of spirit-possession known as bori, are typically derided as “pagan.” Indeed, many northern Nigerian Muslims respect “traditional” customs only insofar as these do not conflict with normative Islam. Accordingly, when the leader of northern Nigeria’s Sharia Council condemned gay rights as an “erosion of our accepted principles of morality,” he could be heard as voicing solidari…
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