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An American Muslim Responds to Muslim Orgs Questioning Armenian Genocide

By Haroon Moghul

…damage of our own strikes? The Armenians did not cause the tragedies that European Muslims suffered at the hands of Christian European states, and should not be held hostage to them. From Romania and Bulgaria to the Caucasus, entire communities were forcibly uprooted, killed, expelled, or forced to transform themselves, in a long, slow, bloody march against Ottoman Muslims. Fearing for their lives in Anatolia, some Ottomans believed the only hope…

From Engravings to Ultrasounds: The Politics of Imaging the Womb

By Elizabeth Yale

…ead more widely, though—men were also curious about birth and generation.) Cheaply printed and soon translated from German into vernacular languages across Europe, the Rose Garden became a durable best-seller. For midwives, the Rose Garden’s images fulfilled a practical need. Midwives (and other birth attendants) sensed the position of the fetus through touch. When a fetus presented in a position other than head down, a skilled midwife could, in s…

Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Heretic: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Jihadis?

By Haroon Moghul

…ica safe, about improving conditions for Muslim communities, about helping European societies enfranchise and empower their immigrants, about better foreign policy choices, this is not your book. In the late 18th century, Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab launched a theological revolt against Sunni and Shia orthodoxies. He won the backing of the nascent Saudi state, and thereafter went to war with the closest thing Sunni Islam had to a Papacy, the (Otto…

Synod ‘Fight for Soul’ of Catholic Church, Flap On English Translation of Key Report; Anti-Gay Law Advances in Kyrgyzstan; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…logy” is a construct being pushed by Catholic leaders in Poland and across Europe as a shorthand for everything conservatives don’t like about nontraditional views on family, women, and LGBT people. It is not clear how much change will actually result from this synod, or next year’s. Patricia Miller has noted in RD, the synod’s signs of greater welcome to LGBT people has not extended so much to women. At National Catholic Reporter, Heidi Schlumpf…

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

By Peter Montgomery

…s not official yet.” Chu notes that strides toward equality in much of the European Union have surpassed those in the U.S. – which has yet to elect an openly gay governor – but there are still problems: Acceptance is strongest in the west and north, but even in Western Europe, at least one major country, Italy — with the Vatican looking over its shoulder — offers virtually no legal protections or rights to its gay and lesbian citizens. Spain: Sena…

A Great Evangelical Divorce? — Speaker Mike Johnson’s Breakup with Marjorie Taylor Greene Could Be Bad News For Trump

By Diana Butler Bass

…boards with significant European presence—like Mission Eurasia and Greater Europe Mission (basically the OG of American missionary work in Europe)—remained active in their support of issues related to Ukraine, but their calls for evangelical attention to issues of persecution seemed largely unheeded. In general, American evangelical public opinion became clouded. It appears that in the last two years, the more evangelicals committed to Christian n…

Right Wing Morality is Costing the Church of England Dearly

By Linda Woodhead

…r a broad church, and one of the last remaining national state churches in Europe, this is particularly serious—for it’s a church that exists for the whole of society, not just active churchgoers. My surveys of Anglican beliefs and values show just how much the “values gap” between leaders and people has widened with every generation. Only 1% of Anglican churchgoers now say they rely on their religious leaders when seeking guidance and making deci…

A Catholic’s Eulogy for the Harvard “Black Mass” Controversy

By Craig A. Ford Jr.

…, particularly horrendous ones like slavery in the US and the Holocaust in Europe, certain aspects of that reality become symbolic representations of these atrocities. (Thus, for example, the swastika becomes a symbol of anti-Semitism and white supremacy, no matter where you are in the world today). Unlike these symbols that are based in reality, however, a thoughtful investigation into the “black mass” would have revealed that this is actually a…

Gambian President Threatens to Kill Asylum Seekers

By Peter Montgomery

…lives are at risk in The Gambia, in order for them to be granted a stay in Europe. If I catch them I will kill them,” the Gambian leader warned.” WCF’s Nigerian Honoree: Gay Rights Activists Conspire with Boko Haram The World Congress of Families, a U.S.-based organization that partners with many Religious Right groups to promote its anti-gay and anti-choice work globally, announced this week therecipients of its Lifetime Achievement Award and “Na…

Trans Protections in India and Malta; Death-by-Stoning Law in Brunei; Church-State Divides on Marriage

By Peter Montgomery

…by a man and a woman, not two men or women. Malta was the last country in Europe to make divorce legal, which it did by referendum in 2011. Brunei: New Law Allows Death by Stoning for Homosexuality, Other Offenses Next week a new law goes into effect in Brunei which will allow gay people and others to be stoned to death. The maximum penalty for homosexuality had been a 10-year prison sentence. “Rape, adultery, sodomy, extramarital sexual relation…