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The Blasphemy of ISIS: A 7-Point Pro-Guide to Islam(ism)

By Haroon Moghul

…ersation. Far from it. As a postscript, Iran and Pakistan are both Islamic Republics. The latter is a parliamentary democracy, whereas the former is, well, a constitutional… theocracy, for lack of a better term. So what then is an Islamic Republic? 4. Islamic law Not Shariah. Confusion of the two is rampant and unfortunate. Islamic law is an interpretation of Shariah; while various interpretations may be authoritative, and may find widespread acce…

Mormon Leaders Slam ‘Counterfeit’ Gay Families; Vatican Resists Gay Ambassador; ISIS Executes Man for Homosexuality; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…“Homosexuality was never considered a sin here, just shameful.” Dominican Republic: Presidential contender slammed, apologizes for anti-gay comments Former president Hipólito Mejía, who is positioning himself for another run at the office, came under fire last week for making anti-gay comments while he was in New York drumming up support. Mejia is close to the notoriously anti-gay state Sen. Ruben Diaz. Blogger Andres Duque publicized comments Me…

‘No Room’ for Gays in Country that Worships God [Kenya] | Churches Fight to Keep Sexuality Out of Sex Ed [S. Korea] | Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…administration has criticized anti-gay laws in Africa and elsewhere. “The Republic of Kenya is a republic that worships God. We have no room for gays and those others,” Ruto told a Nairobi church congregation in the national Swahili language, according to an online video posted by Kenyan broadcaster KTN. Speaking at a news conference on Monday, Kerry was not familiar with Ruto’s remarks but said it was the U.S. position that “all people are creat…

Irish Vote Reflects Diminished Moral Authority of Catholic Church

By Peter Montgomery

…address the concerns voters on the No side have about the implications for freedom of religion and freedom of conscience.” NOM’s Brian Brown praised the Catholic Iona Institute, which took the lead in the “no” campaign, and blamed the outcome on “the increasingly secularized nature of Ireland, together with the utter abandonment of principle by every political party in the nation, all of whom endorsed the referendum.”At Frontiers, Karen Ocamb cast…

To Pray or to Prey: Racism, Religion and Violence in Charleston

By Willie Dwayne Francois

…ed, for some, sacred terrain beyond the contaminating imprint of the white republic; whether in a storefront, freestanding building, or the surreptitious brush arbors of many yesterdays. However, in the racial imagination of America nothing operates outside of the deleterious insistence of whiteness—no place is a safe zone. As the history of lynching—the obscured legacy and culture of racist vigilantism—has taught us, black people live without san…

Teaching Plato in Palestine: Can Philosophy Save Us From Our Differences?

By Jerome E. Copulsky

…agine Foreign Minister Zarif similarly providing an account of the Islamic republic. Imagine this debate continuing, fueled by endless cups of tea, long into the night, as Kerry discusses, say, John Locke and James Madison and the American founding, and Zarif discourses on Mulla Sadra and the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and the Iranian revolution, as they argue about the nature of the human being, the purpose of the political community, the origin…

How Would Religion Respond to Extraterrestrials? A Thought Experiment

By Ed Simon

…scovery magnifies our understanding of creation. Citizens of the Christian Republic of Texas have taken the broadcast as a sign of the long-overdue apocalypse. Meanwhile, the Head Dawkins of the English Secular Atheist Community has announced that the “…discovery of alien life once-and-for-all disproves the idea of a creator god.” But Christians are left wondering whether the papal encyclical will explain how the crucifixion of Christ redeemed the…

US Offers Help For Investigation of Bangladesh Killings

By Peter Montgomery

…the United States, which they want to impose “the new Moral Agenda” which promotes abortion, marriage between lesbians, gays and transsexuals. The president and director of the Christian Action Group spoke on a panel addressing “The new global agenda and its implications in the Dominican Republic.” They warned that international institutions like the Organization for American States and United Nations are pushing an agenda that would “destroy the…

Religion as a Front for Tyranny: A Roundtable on the Timeliness of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale”

By Anita Little

…s that would challenge the established order and give women more power and freedom, women gained the “freedom” to dress more daringly and drink and have sex like men. We’ve seen a dramatic increase in the ability to talk publicly about sex and recognize different ways of being in terms of sex and gender since the mid-1980s. But at the same time, there’s been a kind of creeping authoritarianism that has inserted the state into almost every decision…

How Trump’s Assertion of “Power to Pardon” Tramples the American Sacred

By Spencer Dew

…le of law. Law enshrines and allows for pursuit and protection of our most central values, values which Philip Gorski, in his recent and impassioned defense of American civil religion, American Covenant, expands beyond simply freedom to include equality, “national solidarity (‘We, the People, in order to form a more perfect union’), the common good (or ‘general welfare’) and active citizenship,” suggesting that “civic inclusion and recognition sho…