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If Muslims Stop Drinking Will They Become Violent?

By Haroon Moghul

…ity introduced to the Balkans?); “minarets pierce the skyline”; “Saudi and Turkish funds” support mosques that are crowded on the weekends—all of which causes us to miss the point. Where is the extremism we’re supposed to be afraid of? Is it simply a woman wearing a headscarf who’s elected and appears to be a competent leader? And if that’s the case, why are we so afraid of Muslim expressions of religiosity? In any case, it’s become clear why our…

Jacksonville Islamic Center The Target of Attempted Arson

By Julie Ingersoll

…rity video showed a white man carrying what appeared to be a gas can. The incident is being investigated by local and federal authorities as a possible hate crime. Interfaith Leaders including those at the Amity Turkish Center and OneJax denounced the attack as Muslim leaders called for more understanding and tolerance. Ed. note: For RD’s coverage of Ahmed’s confirmation hearing, see Ingersoll’s May 7 piece….

Mormonism in 92 languages

By Joanna Brooks

…nhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Tahitian, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yapese I’ll also be thinking about local translators sitting in their home countries, relaying translations back to the Conference Center to be combined with video for almost simultaneous rebroadcast in Aymara, Armenian, Cebuano, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Guarani, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kekchi, Korean, Kuna, Mand…

Neither Radical Nor Secular: The West Struggles with the New Islamism

By Blain Auer

…n the 1990s when a new, political form of Islam garnered a majority in the Turkish parliament and elected the country’s first Islamist Prime Minister. The trend continued in Turkey with the 2003 election of Recep Erdogan, the leader of the Justice and Development Party. Some political analysts are beginning to see these developments as a successful reconciliation of Islam and democracy, one that serves as a model for the new Islamism emerging acro…

Fighting Terrorism Without Drones?

By Michael Schulson

…single cause, of course. But it might not be the worst idea to address terrorism with vocational training and other schooling, as the new American-Turkish initiative aims to do, and not just build more aerial robots….

Challenging Both Homophobia in Islam and Populist Bogeyman of ‘The Homophobic Muslim’; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…r mosque is open for everybody,” says mosque founder Seyran Ates, a German Turkish-born lawyer and women’s rights activist. “And we mean that really seriously: everybody, every lifestyle. We are not God. We don’t decide who’s a good or a bad Muslim. Anybody can come through this door – whether you are heterosexual or homosexual, we don’t care, it’s not our right to ask.” … The Ibn Rushd-Goethe mosque is part of a growing movement known as inclusiv…

“1913: Seeds of Conflict”: New Doc Explores Little-Known History of Palestine

By Shaul Magid

…fectively in the film. Even hearing the Arabic, German, French, Hebrew and Turkish gives one a feel for the multiethnic dimension of this particular corner of the jungle. 1913 is not a year many point to as the germ-cell of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But Loeterman suggests that it is; not in any obvious way, no seismic event, national conflict or political edict. Rather, three things happened in 1913 that frame this film. First, Sokolowsky’…

Russian Attack on LGBTs at UN Rejected; Gay Cake Controversy Rages in N. Ireland; Bishop Calls for Marriage Referendum in Puerto Rico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…e “out of the closet”. What we were hearing – and it has snatched the microphone of homosexual life in the same unrepresentative way that Islamism has grabbed the public voice of Muslims – was the voice of a self-appointed moral policeman. If you are gay, Mr Strudwick seemed to assert, there are certain things you must believe. Nothing else is permitted under the gay rights sharia. Nigeria: Presidential candidate denies marriage-equality deal We r…

The “Interfaith” Blind Spot

By Julie Ingersoll

…see the exclusivism embedded in their own efforts at pluralism. We have a Turkish Cultural Center that plays an important role in Jacksonville and I have enjoyed many of their events. They hold an annual “Unity Dinner” that they had repeatedly asked me to attend. A couple of years ago I went and learned, through a film that was the culmination of the evening, what they meant by unity: we really all believe in one God. Rather than seeking to elimi…

Double Helix: Obama, Race, Science, and Religion

By Arri Eisen

…rnet-accessible companies who then tell you that you’re 23% African or 15% Turkish or both. What do these percentages mean as numbers, much less socioculturally? And what if one gene version occurs more frequently in those calling themselves “black” or “white”? And what if this gene is involved somehow in a complex behavior? Or, as has already happened, what if someone who calls him- or herself black has no “official” African genes? Could an integ…