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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

…Saudi Arabia: Police arrest 35 men Police in Riyadh reportedly arrested 35 Pakistani men they said were gathering in a public restroom south of the city. India: New report calls for decriminalization, so does gay prince The International Commission of Jurists published the in-depth report: “Unnatural Offenses Obstacles to Justice in India Based on Sexual Orientation.” From its conclusion: In describing the challenges that queer persons in India fa…

Unified Catholic Opposition to Trump’s “Muslim Ban” is Wishful Thinking

By Patricia Miller

…the persecution of Christians in Muslim-majority countries like Syria and Pakistan with Catholic hospitals being required to cover birth control pills under the broad rubric of religious liberty. And for every Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark who called Trump’s order the “opposite of what it means to be an American,” there was an Archbishop Charles Chaput, who on the day Trump’s order was made public chastised his opponents for having “marched, ri…

Donald Trump Scares LGBT People Worldwide and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…defined.” The attack on UN’s advocacy for LGBT Human Rights continues on a number of fronts. On November 18, an effort by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation moved an amendment that would strip language regarding sexual orientation and gender identity from a resolution regarding “extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.” More from OutRight Action International: Today [November 18], the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assem…

Where Trump and Climate Deniers Seem Very Far Away: COP22 in Marrakech

By Donna Schaper

…Gender Concerns International, headquartered in The Hague, with offices in Pakistan, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Myanmar. “What we need is equal responsibility for the climate and equal responsiveness to the climate from both men and women.” I was as astonished at the lack of human rights language as I was about the gender shifts, visible, apparent, mind boggling everywhere in the exhibits and the speakers. Responsibility. Responsiveness. Not we h…

Trump Election Could Threaten LGBT Rights Globally

By Peter Montgomery

…schools, if implemented here, would lead to drug and alcohol abuse, and a number of other ills, including higher rates of sexuality transmitted diseases, because children were being introduced to sexual perversions in order to turn them into little sexual deviants. The paper quotes Donnya Piggott, head of Barbados Gays and Lesbians Against Discrimination, saying: “I thought that the Church was completely out of touch with the people. And if you w…

Obsession with Attackers’ Backgrounds Misses the Point of Terrorism

By Ali Olomi

…ihadis, there wasn’t a single suicide bombing. Both the United States’ and Pakistan’s intelligence services sought to bring the tactic to the mujahideen through texts and training, yet it wasn’t an easy sell. Hezbollah, who early on adopted suicide bombings, eventually abandoned the tactic for more traditional paramilitary methods. The reason jihadist groups imported terrorism from their nationalist counterparts was that they shared a commonality:…

LGBT Activists Challenge Church Anti-Marriage Efforts; Gov’t in Belize Creates Church-State ‘Public Morality’ Commission; Opponents Seek To Stop Finland’s Marriage Equality Law Before It Takes Effect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nd all the other regions. Norwegians are also immigrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Poland, Sweden, Somalia and Syria,” the king said. “Norwegians are girls who love girls. Boys who love boys. And boys and girls who love each other,” King Harald said. “Norwegians believe in God, Allah, everything and nothing,” he added. Indonesia: Government investigating Grindr and similar apps In the latest step in 2016’s wave of anti-LGBT rhetoric and action b…

Is Islamic Homophobia a Western Import?

By Omar Sarwar

…lonial societies today is an expression of the Victorian ethos. That’s why Pakistan (where Islam is most widely practiced), India (where Hinduism is most widely practiced), Singapore (where Buddhism is most widely practiced), and Zambia (where Christianity is most widely practiced) all still have variations on the same British anti-gay penal code. Yet, although EHT might explain the infiltration of law and official politics in colonized Muslim soc…

Are We Living Through World War III?

By Haroon Moghul

…that this was primarily, or exclusively, politically-motivated violence. A number of commentators seem to believe Mateen was struggling with his own sexuality. But Cohen does not hesitate to assign Mateen to larger, world-historical forces: Islam is in epochal crisis. Its Sunni and Shiite branches are mired in violent confrontation. Its adjustment to the modern world has proved faltering and agonized enough to produce a metastasizing strain of vio…

Countering the “Countering Violent Extremism” Program

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…he destruction of Iraq, the invasion of Afghanistan, the drones bombing in Pakistan, Yemen, the torture of Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib and the colonisation and occupation of Palestine. While most identified themselves as Muslims, they also said they were horrified by the ideological war the West has carried out against what it wrongfully calls “the Muslim world.” Patrick Eddington made a similar point in his critique of the politics of CVE: CVE-…