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Is the Pope’s Concern for Immigration Just a “Numbers Game”?

By Megan Sweas

…c at the United Nations. People from Syria—but also Mali, Gambia, Nigeria, Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere—are streaming into Europe by sea or by foot. Most of them are not Catholic, but Muslim. As I wrote earlier this year, the Catholic Church has been at the forefront of welcoming migrants in Italy; more recently, Pope Francis has called on parishes to take in migrant families. At Centro Astalli, Muslim men go to a back dining room in a loud, cr…

Bin Laden’s Death Does Not Prove that Torture Works

By Sarah Sentilles

…an’t travel because they are considered war criminals, but they can travel freely in the United States, making the rounds on talk shows and going on book tours. What makes this failure of accountability so insidious is that a lack of punishment can be read as a kind of sanction. Torture will not seem wrong, will not be labeled as the crime against humanity that it technically is, if no one gets in trouble for doing it. This lack of accountability…

Is Twitter Doing Enough to Remove Extremist Content? An Ex-Employee Weighs In

By Sofi Hersher

…ver submitted a removal request under the Country Withheld Content policy. Iraq submitted its first this year. This being said, individual users can report generally abusive content directly to Twitter—indeed, it is first on the list on Twitter’s policy page. Abusive content includes accounts or individual Tweets used to harass individuals or promote or incite violence. These reports go to a real person trained to evaluate and make a judgment call…

My Congregation Tried to Help a Syrian Family Settle in the US

By Thomas Warming

…these days, we must all be “secure,” no matter how minuscule the risk, and freedom—even the freedom to follow our own conscience—be damned. I don’t know if we’ll ever have the chance to meet our Syrian family now, but if we do I hope I will be able to offer the formal greeting one might expect of a man of God: Assalamu Alaikom warahmatu Allahi wa barakatuhu, “Peace be with you, and God’s mercy and blessings,” without having to add under my breath,…

To Be Queer, Gifted, and Black: A Conversation with Theologian Pamela Lightsey

By Nyasha Junior

…d a mother of a child who was on the ground in the “shock and awe” days in Iraq. My son is a veteran, and I myself am a veteran. So you imagine the challenges that I had when I saw our police forces being militarized on the streets of Ferguson, and I saw civilians running from tear gas. As a veteran and as a womanist and as a child of the ’60s Black Power movement, I knew that I could no longer comfortably sit in my office in Boston and be at my h…

Why The Church Can’t Stop Gun Violence

By Daniel Schultz

…cknowledged and filed away. Even large protests, such as those against the Iraq War, are ineffective without clear demands and leverage points. Two recent examples prove the point, I think. The Black Lives Matter movement has seen some success because they’ve mostly concentrated on local issues: in Chicago, it’s possible to make police brutality toxic enough that the mayor feels the need to fire the police superintendent. Pressure like that is unl…

A One-State Solution for Israel and Why It Will Work

By Haroon Moghul

…we just bomb them every few years, and punish them for their desire to be free, we will have achieved a reasonable and acceptable status quo. But although I welcome the forwardness with which we are beginning to confront the ugly realities of ongoing occupation—as well as the racism and ethnocentrism that are necessarily enhanced in the course of such conflict—I don’t think we quite understand the desperate urgency of the situation. Israel’s elit…

Swiss Priest Sacked for Blessing Lesbian Couple; Mormon Equality Advocate Excommunicated; Pope-Backed Anti-Gay Referendum Fails; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Katherine Zappone, made a video for the Marriage Equality campaign that is promoting a referendum coming in May. According to Pink News, she and her partner married in Canada in 2003 but the High Court in Dublin refused in 2006 to recognize her marriage. Uganda: Magazine gives LGBTI Ugandans a voice The Advocate profiles Bombastic, a new magazine “by and for LGBTI Ugandans” and its editor Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera. Reclaiming messaging from anti…

No, Sunni and Shia Muslims Have Not Been Fighting Forever

By Haroon Moghul

…er se. We sided with Muslims in Bosnia and Albania. And in Afghanistan and Iraq, we fought against some Muslims even as we empowered other Muslims. But while religion isn’t foremost in many of our analyses and forefront in our motivations, many Muslims do perceive these same conflicts as religious. Because religion is more prominent in their worldviews. That’s why some people in the Muslim world link the Prophet Muhammad cartoons to a larger, perc…

Never Mind the Libertarians, Here’s the ‘Pragmatist Moment’

By Eric C. Miller

…tes: Raised on the ad hoc communalism of the Internet, disenchanted by the Iraq War, reflexively tolerant of other lifestyles, appalled by government intrusion into their private affairs and increasingly convinced that the Obama economy is rigged against them, the millennials can no longer be regarded as faithful Democrats — and a recent poll confirmed that fully half of voters between ages 18 and 29 are unwedded to either party. Obama has profoun…