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Updated: Dr. Oz Thinks Anti-Muslim’s Sugar-Daddy Sheldon Adelson is “Not So Bad”

By Garibaldi

…e are the people with whom Dr. Oz danced with on Monday: *** An increasing number of individuals have lent their support to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) movement, including icons such as the physicist Stephen Hawking. The growing strength of the BDS campaign highlights the controversial nature of visiting Israel as it continues to brutally violate human rights through its occupation of Palestine. Apparently for some such “trivial” co…

Fatwa Allowing Women to Hit Their Husbands is Useless

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…tempting to strike a partner in self-defense. Fethullah Gülen, a prominent Turkish scholar of Islam, has echoed this fatwa and gone further in stating that “It is a violent act to beat one’s wife,” and “If he hits once, she should hit him twice.” But Gülen’s remarks fall sort of promoting any real solutions when he puts a provision on divorcing an abusive husband: “Those women, if they don’t have kids, should get divorce.” What about women who do…

Norwegian Catholic Church May Stop Civil Marriages; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ian Sector.” The glossary has initially been published in English, French, Turkish, Farsi, and Arabic. The London-based Kaleidoscope Trust has published a set of recommendations designed to help The Commonwealth of Nations (formerly known as the British Commonwealth) to improve the lives of LGBT people even though, as 76 Crimes notes, “dozens of those countries still have anti-LGBT laws inherited from their former colonial overlords.” The group’s…

Two Cheers for British Museum’s Sanitized Hajj Exhibition

By Nabila Pathan

…to nearly three million last year. The start of the exhibition features a Turkish map compiled in 1580 placing the Ka’bah, the black stone, as an epicenter of the world. The exhibition explores the various paths of journeys undertaken to reach the central fixture of Islam through manuscripts, photographs, textiles, relics, and what it means to be a haji (a pilgrim of the Hajj). Notable hajis represented in the exhibition include Lady Evelyn Cobba…

Brazilian Evangelicals Launch ‘Sin-Free’ (Read: Gay-Free) Version of Facebook

By Peter Montgomery

Turkish ‘Islamic Defense’ Group Calls for Murder of Gays; Civil Unions Stall in Cyprus; Kenyans Tell Gays to Leave, Obama to Shut Up; Brazilian Evangelicals Launch ‘Sin-Free’ Facebook; and more… In the U.S., fallout from the Supreme Court’s decision making marriage equality a legal reality in all 50 states continues, with conservative Christian legal groups backing county clerks and others citing religious beliefs as a reason to refuse to recog…

Ugandan Anti-Gay Fallout: New Laws, New Violence, New Underground Railroad

By Peter Montgomery

…nth, a unit of the Moral Protection Bureau of the judicial police raided a Turkish-style bathhouse and arrested 27 men who were allegedly seeking to have sex with other men. Five Lebanese NGOs are calling for their release. The organizations seeking the men’s release include Helem, Arab Foundation for Freedom and Equality (AFE), M-Coalition, Marsa Sexual Health Clinic and the Lebanese Medical Association for Sexual Health (LebMASH). As we noted ea…

Conservative Bishops Headed For Synod Victory?; Indonesian Sharia Official Says Gay Caning Law Meant To ‘Safeguard Human Dignity’; Slovenian Court OK’s Referendum on Marriage Equality Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…lice turned tear gas, plastic bullets, and water cannons on participants. (Turkish LGBT activists are not sure why the event was shut down after years without incident, but it fell during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and came in the wake of a defeat at the ballot box for the party of Turkey’s Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.) “I thought we were safe, but the police were attacking us and the people just watching,” said Nader. “That was…

Five Things We Can Learn From Creationists

By Nathan Schneider

…aterialist sham. I’ve eaten fish on the Bosporus with the sidekicks of the Turkish creationist guru Harun Yahya and, you know what? I had a great time (meeting Yahya himself was a bit more awkward). So here’s to good, old-fashioned, intransigent creationism! Post-Darwinian creationism began, fittingly enough, with you, Darwin. Not to be beaten by the simultaneous discovery of Alfred Russel Wallace, you published The Origin of Species in 1859. (He…

“I’ll Pray For You”—Powerful or Pointless?

By Christine Wicker

…r problems away with the promise to do something she’d rather they didn’t. Turkish author Orhan Pamuk gave one of my favorite practices a killing clout when he noted how often praying for those we pity comforts us while distancing us from the need to do anything else. During my times as a newspaper reporter, I once asked a former nun named Elizabeth Espersen, who directed Dallas’ Thanksgiving Square, to give me an example of the best prayer. Jesus…

Washington Post Blogger “Proud” To Have Shared Stage With Geert Wilders

By Sarah Posner

…e to fully integrate almost a million Dutch Muslims, mostly of Moroccan or Turkish descent. In existence only since 2006, the Freedom Party, tightly controlled by Wilders, has grown to be the Netherlands second largest, and fastest growing, party. Recent polls suggest it could even replace Balkenende,s Christian Democrats as the top party in 2011 parliamentary elections. Wilders is no friend of the U.S.: he opposes Dutch military involvement in Af…