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Rarefied Islamophobia: When Americans Duplicate the European Cultural Talk

By Jocelyne Cesari

…changes were triggered by the arrival of large numbers of immigrants from Africa, North Africa, and Asia; as a result, cultural and religious institutions in Europe are facing many serious challenges. And yet even if this central assumption is true and Caldwell’s overall analysis of cultural and demographic evolution of Europe is correct, the author examines the questions within the primitive trappings of “The Green Peril.” Following a long list…

House Health Care Bill Discriminates Against Religious Freedom

By Gordon D. Newby

…good cause. This is true of the Shafi’i Muslims of Southeast Asia and East Africa. For the Malikis in North Africa and the Hanbalis of Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, ensoulment occurs at day 40, with abortions allowed up to that time. On the basis of Qur’an 2:233, which states that the mother should not be made to suffer on account of the child, many Muslim jurists allow abortion even after the period of ensoulment, particularly if the life of the…

Jesus, Santa, and Now Sound of Music‘s Mother Abbess?

By Shannen Dee Williams

…eology of white supremacy and racist manipulations of the Bible to justify African enslavement and racial segregation. Although the overwhelming majority of the world’s black Catholic sisters served (and continue to serve) in the Americas and Africa, the presence of black nuns in European convents is not a recent phenomenon. In fact, one of the first documented black nuns in Europe was Louise Marie-Therese, the famed Black Nun of Moret, who took t…

Some Thoughts on Richard Dawkins’ Terrible Tweet

By Haroon Moghul

…the ancient. The Albanian ruler of Egypt, Muhammad Ali, and Tipu Sultan of southern India, great nemesis of British ambitions in South Asia. One of the few countries to escape Western colonization was Japan. Is it, on balance, better that the Muslim world was largely colonized and fell behind, or would we have rather that, potentially, to complement Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, a Muslim-majority state did its best impression of imperialism? Th…

Loving Uganda to Death: The Global Reach of Far-Right Christian Hatred

By Peter Montgomery

…g African Values: How the U.S. Christian Right is Transforming Politics in Africa,” which among other things examines the African activities of the American Center for Law and Justice, the legal organization established by Pat Robertson and run by Jay Sekulow with the assistance of his son Jordan. A more recent article by PRA researcher Jandira Queiroz discusses the launch of the ACLJ’s Brazilian branch and the growing political power of Brazil’s…

Sex and the Ummah

By Amina Wadud

…es, with monogamy the overwhelming majority except in parts of sub-Saharan Africa, it is problematic in most cases. Ultimately we are promoting the practice of a marriage of equality. It’s not going to be easy, but it’s a goal. For sure that goal cannot be reached when it is permissible for a man to have more than one wife. Some use the logic of the Qur’an to further argue for monogamy as the norm because the preconditions for polygyny are especia…

The US Religious Right and the LGBT Crisis In Uganda

By Sarah Posner

…es. As the Rev. Kapya Kaoma, author of a report on anti-LGBT evangelism in Africa, told RD’s Kathryn Joyce last year: When he goes to Uganda, he’s not known as Scott Lively, but as an American evangelical… The Africans don’t always have the resources to follow their statements so they say: this man of God says this is going on in the world. Or Scott Lively goes to the Uganda Anti-gay Conference, and the media says that an American evangelical says…

Methodists Vote to Keep Homosexuality “Incompatible”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…tional growth of the denomination, especially into parts of the world like Africa, where they remain very conservative on issues of human sexuality — especially homosexuality, where governements like Uganda’s are trying to make it a capital offense just to be gay. Baden said the Reconciling Ministries Network is working hard to open dialogues with church leaders in countries like Africa to educate them on the realities of being gay or lesbian. “We…

Anti-Immigration Candidate’s Ties to Anti-Gay Church of Rwanda

By Lauri Lebo

…Overland Park, Kan., has close ties to the anti-homosexuality movement in Africa. Christ Church was part of the Anglican Realignment, one of a group of theologically conservative parishes which aligned themselves with bishops outside the Episcopal Church in the United States following the ordination of Gene Robinson, the church’s first openly gay bishop. According to its website, Kobach’s church is part of the Anglican Mission of the Americas, wh…

The Risks of Remaining Neutral on Egypt

By Haroon Moghul

…of the democracy deficit running across much of the Middle East and North Africa, a particularly Arab problem (though it is not caused by Arabness; I only mean the deficit afflicts Arabs especially). In this sense, Egypt also speaks to the great failure of many modern Muslim-majority societies. The Need for Collective Self-Esteem Unlike Third World countries like Brazil, India, and China, many Muslim-majority societies traded their organic tradit…