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How Do We Talk About Islam After Charlie Hebdo?

By Asma Afsaruddin

…ntinuous carnage being wreaked by the so-called Islamic State in Syria and Iraq (or Da‘ish) under the banner of a revived “caliphate” and there can be little doubt, it seems, that Muslims are increasingly devolving into killing machines motivated by blind rage. Such a phenomenon is furthermore understandable because Muslims supposedly can draw seamlessly from Islamic history and vocabulary to provide justification for their violence. No matter how…

Gambian Prez Rails Against Gay ‘Evil Empire’; Irish Priest Comes Out During Mass; Trans Talk on Tunisian TV Sparks Debate; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…hich are contrary to their faith. Nor do we require evidence that schools ‘promote’ other faiths. “Instead, inspectors must ensure that pupils are able to express views which are neither intolerant nor discriminatory towards others. Tunisia: Trans Person Sparks Debate with TV Appearance Al Arabiya news reported on Sunday that a trans person appeared on a popular Tunisian television talk show. Born “Leila”, but going by the name “Jalel,” the transs…

Egyptian President Al-Sisi is a Dictator, Not a Reformer of Islam

By Mohamad Elmasry

…rism’s root causes, which include state-sponsored violence and repression. Iraq was largely terrorism-free prior to the 2003 American invasion, but has become a hotbed of terrorist activity in its aftermath. Similarly, prior to a military coup and unprecedented state-sponsored repression in Egypt, there was no terrorism in Egypt’s major cities. Recently, however, Cairo, Alexandria and other major Egyptian cities have been the sites of terrorist vi…

Pope Decries ‘Ideological Colonization’ of Family; Islamic State Executes Gays and Others; Gay Couple Gets Long-Delayed Wedding in Mexico; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ory of freedom.” We have reported on the World Council of Families and its promotion of anti-gay policies in Russia and around the world, as well as religious conservatives’ rhetorical opposition to “gender ideology.” This week Political Research Associates released an article on WCF’s global reach and how “a seemingly innocuous definition of the ‘natural family’ is being used as the basis of new laws to justify the criminalization of abortion and…

A Third Reconstruction? Rev. William Barber Lifts the Trumpet

By Peter Laarman

…finition of “poor.” But if Harriet Tubman could lead hundreds of slaves to freedom with nothing but the North Star, moss on the trees, a pistol strapped to her leg and faith in her heart (despite lack of resources and epilepsy), then today we ought to be able to use the Internet, Twitter, Facebook, cell phones and our growing network of churches to educate the new Southern Electorate—black, white, Latino, Asian, gay, straight, labor, Christian, Je…

Civil Unions Battle Heats Up in Italy; Church Leaders in Malawi Defend Criminalization of Homosexuality; Report on LGBT Student Group Sparks Backlash in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…in the wake of reports of violence, including rape, against migrants from Iraq and Syria, “where ISIS militants are targeting or killing homosexuals.” Afghanistan: Petition Calls for Legal Protections for Religious, Sexual Minorities A change.org petition is calling for changes in the laws of Afghanistan to protect the rights of both apostate (defined by petition organizers as “agnostic, atheist, freethinker, humanist, skeptic”) and LGBTIQA (lesb…

Waging Patience, Not Violence

By Asma Afsaruddin

…aggression. That some jurists close to the ruling elite in Syria and then Iraq sought to circumvent this categorical prohibition through legal and hermeneutical ruses—because frankly it got in the way of empire-building—reminds us that scripture can be made to yield multiple, competing meanings depending on who gets to do the interpreting. Political loyalties, class, and gender have all been factors in shaping classical interpretations of the Qur…

A Devil’s Dozen of the Best ‘New Religion Journalism’ Books of the Decade

By Ed Simon

…higher education has forced thousands of promising writers like Baker into freelance public scholarship, which as precarious as it is has also ironically brought important scholarship into the public eye. Grace Period is Baker’s clear-eyed, sobering, and honest examination of being a millennial religious studies scholar in an academy that has no use for so many of us, where one can’t “help but think about how academia claimed my life.” Go to top (…

In the Story of the New Testament We Are the Romans—No Matter Who Wins the Election

By Stephen Hinerman

…e statues were less about honoring the Civil War dead than they were about promoting 20th century white supremacy). In some ways, it’s not all that different from the ideas that sold people on the first Crusade back in the 11th century. And it’s not all that different from the story we tell ourselves today, every time we enter another country for their “own good.” Sure, we went into Iraq on the basis of false information about WMDs. But in the rhe…

High Holidays Watch: Seth Rogen’s Latest Highlights the ‘American Pickle’ of Living with Death

By Shaul Magid

…“pay no attention to the numbers on the top right of your screen.” In the Iraq War the government refused to televise the coffins arriving at Andrews Air Force Base. Let’s be Ben Greenbaum as long as we can. I once heard a teaching by Shlomo Carlebach (perhaps borrowed from elsewhere) about the “Six Million” who perished in the Holocaust. “I don’t like the term six million,” he said, “Six million Jews were not murdered in the Holocaust. Rather, o…