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The War on Terror is Over; Tahrir Buried It

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…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…

Claiming Yoga for India

By Andrea R. Jain

…embraced and prescribed yoga both within and beyond the borders of what is today the State of India—not to mention the living yoga giants, Baba Ramdev and Bikram Choudhury, or American yoga entrepreneurs like tantric-fitness advocate John Friend or the evangelical Christian “Holy Yoga” of Brooke Boon. These yoga insiders have little in common with one another, yet according to each of them, they are doers of yoga. Any attempt to decide who counts…

Possible Heir to Dalai Lama Cleared of Corruption Charges

By Tsering Namgyal

…s in cash at the Karmapa’s makeshift headquarters near Dharamsala in North India. The Central Government of India, following weeks of investigation, finally cleared Karmapa of any wrongdoing (the money they found had indeed been an accumulation of donations). Speculations abound on what really triggered the raid last month, and there are various conspiracy theories, though it now appears that local politics played a key role. After the money was s…

The Dark Side of BYU’s Honor Code

By Joanna Brooks

…reating serious backlash among BYU students and faculty. Since then, Honor Code enforcement has been conducted through referrals—even third party referrals—of suspect students to a campus Honor Code office, a system of enforcement that has created significant opportunities for abuse. (When I was a BYU student, it was possible to make an anonymous third-party referral.) Honor Code enforcement on campus has been used to bait and target gays and libe…

Anti-Trans Bus Tour Is Not Very Welcome In Spanish Cities; Gay Rights As A Weapon In Nationalist War On Muslims; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…er,” Egypt is declared the “biggest jailer of gay men.” Aya Nader notes in Egyptian Streets: “In July, Egypt’s permanent delegate to the United Nations said that Egypt will not comply with any pro-homosexual resolutions passed by the United Nations.” Hungary: Mayor pushing anti-gay, anti-Muslim enclave TIME reports on László Toroczkai, right-wing mayor of Ásotthalom who has banned burka wearing, mosque-building, and the Muslim call to prayer. The…

‘Rising Global Tide’ Of Anti-Gay Crackdowns; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…r, Nabil Sadek, ordered an investigation into the flag waving. Days later, Egypt’s media regulatory body issued an order prohibiting coverage that promotes or legitimizes homosexuality, which it labeled a “sickness and disgrace.” It also barred homosexual people from appearing in the media, unless it is to repent. The pro-government musicians union announced it would no longer issue permits to foreign performers unless they obtain security clearan…

Why Egypt is America’s Enemy

By Haroon Moghul

…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….

Muslim Mickey Mouse Tweet by Christian Billionaire Sparks Controversy

By Joseph Hammond

…naissance) Party, though this Salafi group has yet to be accredited by the Egyptian government. By taking on Egypt’s most prominent Copt, Ismail might be seeking to distance his proposed party from Al-Nur Party which was approved by the government just this month. The Alexandria-based Al-Nur Party has followed the lead of the Muslim Brotherhood’s own Freedom and Justice Party by including several Copts within its ranks. In general, Salafi groups t…

Obama in India: Missed Opportunities

By Anna Bigelow

…give our people a future of prosperity and security the United States and India stand united.” He went on to praise the people of Mumbai, evoking Gandhi and particularly noting that the strength of India—like the strength of the USA—lies in diversity, which was on full display during those attacks when we saw “Hindus, Sikhs, Christians, Jews, and Muslims, protecting each other, saving each other, living the common truth of all the world’s great r…

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

By H. al-Zoubeir

…d full of light, and which I saw many times at the Sultan Hassan mosque in Egypt, where his own teacher (the current Mufti of Egypt), often gave the sermon. Yet, despite our limited interaction, his killing touched me in a profound way. I was not the only one. Within a few hours of the shooting, Twitter and Facebook were on fire with expressions of sadness and outrage, in a way I have never seen. The funeral of the shaykh al-thawra (the shaykh of…