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Gingrich on Obama’s “Kenyan, Anti-Colonial Behavior” and “American Exceptionalism”

By Sarah Posner

…t 17 years of his life—off the American mainland, in Hawaii, Indonesia and Pakistan, with multiple subsequent journeys to Africa. Because, as we all know, Hawaii isn’t America? Apparently not. And Obama doesn’t understand the founders’ intentions: A good way to discern what motivates Obama is to ask a simple question: What is his dream? Is it the American dream? Is it Martin Luther King’s dream? Or something else? It is certainly not the American…

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…

The Next Islamists: The Wide Green Smudge That’s Changing Our World

By Haroon Moghul

…, informing us how new connections are organically emerging—in astonishing number—between rising Arabs, looking to invest massive sums of wealth in new markets, and risen China, a positive model for socially stable growth. These links involve much more than oil alone (Simpfendorfer makes much of the place of Islam in these relationships), but oil has produced the hundreds of billions that now constitute sovereign wealth funds taken seriously acros…

Closing with Gospel in Morocco

By Hussein Rashid

…ly, they function in a similar way to qawwals in northwestern India and in Pakistan. Their music draws on Indic and Islamicate sources. Parvathy Baul was the first female Baul I had seen in public, and her music demonstrated the ways that cultures combine to create new forms. The song in the clip below ends with an invocation of figures normally associated with the qawwali tradition, showing how the Baul tradition is still evolving. Bab Makina The…

Gay-Hating Church Burns “Idols”: A Report

By Rebecca Barrett-Fox

…te detentions at Guantanamo Bay, the collateral damage of drone attacks in Pakistan, and the untold civilian deaths (with estimates heading into the hundreds of thousands) associated with US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are the events that could doom relations between the Muslim world and America. Symbolic acts do matter, but the ones performed by sanctioned US representatives—the unnamed soldier who used the Qur’an for target practice or Lt….

Podcast: Progressive Buddhist Hozan Alan Senauke

By Robert P. Jones

…son, but do you want to live at the expense of the person in Bangladesh or Pakistan who’s making your shirt, or the oil rig worker in Nigeria, the agricultural worker in the Central Valley who is being hounded by the INS? Do you want to live that way? Until we address those questions, I don’t think we’ll have a truly progressive religious movement or truly progressive movement. Senauke also discusses how Buddhism complements and challenges the pro…

The Fallout From “Spinning Ft. Hood”

By The Editors

…. 11th article Spinning Ft. Hood generated some very strong feelings and a number of comments that violated our commenting policy. As a result we closed comments and invited readers to send a letter to the editor (a format we’ll be moving to on all stories when we relaunch early next year. Blogs will continue to feature comments). The following is one such letter: Burk Braun writes: “Criminal acts involving murder are forbidden explicitly [in Isla…

Sex and the Ummah

By Amina Wadud

…second to which country? Actually, I thought it would have been second to Pakistan, which I had read a similar report about some time ago. I know, you probably thought it would be some where in the Gulf, but it’s not. I’m not sure what that says (about you, or,) about the Gulf. Because then there was this story from the Gulf. Some “Saudi Prince” is accused of the gruesome murder of his male servant, with whom he had been traveling for several mon…

Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Lurid Picture of Nigeria’s Muslims in Newsweek

By Patrick J. Ryan, S.J.

…for the survival of Christian minorities in Muslim-majority countries like Pakistan, Iraq, and Egypt over recent months and years, but not every part of the world where Muslims and Christians live together is the same. I have lived in West Africa for nearly three decades and in Nigeria for eleven of those years. Hirsi Ali, who has no particular expertise on Nigeria, has painted too lurid a picture of the current Christian-Muslim tensions in…

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…