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Anglican Bishops Punish Episcopal Church Over LGBT Inclusion; Secularization’s Role in Moving Latin America ‘Beyond Machismo’; Greek Orthodox Bishop Says Gays Deserve Respect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ekim proclaimed before a huge audience. “because for the first time I felt free. In some countries it is so hard to be LGBTI, to be free. Love each other and accept each other because, at the end of the day, we belong to each other.” When he returned to Tetovo, he faced the stark contrast of cultural acceptance between the two countries: he was forced into hiding for a month as he and his parents received death threats motivated by anti-LGBTI medi…

An Immigrant’s Tale: The Pull of the Homeland

By Shabana Mir

…l lives? How can we keep our religiosity on life support? The questions of freedom of religion are not relevant here. “Can” we worship? Of course we can. Can we function as religious minorities? Certainly—better than those in our own countries. Can we speak our languages, raise our children in our faiths, avoid forbidden foods, wear religiously approved clothing? Yes, yes, of course—most of the time. But the question of can we is not a question th…

Hajj Journal: Using the Toilet at the Grand Mosque

By Amina Wadud

…, whatever little shopping I did in Makkah. The shopkeepers are mostly not Saudi, so they detect an accent, but usually think I’m Egyptian, the dialect I use the most. My roommate said many of the shopkeepers are Urdu-speaking, but she got better service when she spoke English, especially in the jewelry shop. Anyway, by now I hope you see that it helps always to have a plan. Today, I encountered something I was hoping at all costs to never have to…

Sexual Ethics and Islam

By Kecia Ali

…have “veil” in it. How do you feel about the cover? I was very lucky that Saudi-born artist Hend al-Mansour consented to use of images from her calligraphic painting of passages from the Qur’an, specifically from the part of Surat Yusuf that tells the story of the attempted seduction of the Prophet Joseph by his master’s wife. Fedwa Malti-Douglas called that story the literary foundation for misogyny in the Islamic tradition, but it’s a bit more…

Sisterhood is Islamic: an Interview with Daisy Khan

By Rene Rosechild

…n every society that calls itself Muslim. Do you see any inherent conflict between Islam itself and full women’s equality? No, actually we declare gender equality to be an intrinsic part of the Islamic faith. It’s something that people have long forgotten. And this is why we are stating our case from an Islamic jurisprudence point of view. We believe that Muslim women are worthy of respect and dignity. According to Islam, they’re legal individuals…

“We Found My Father, Except for His Hand”

By Haroon Moghul

…its young folk in their fashionable clothes, and even its new investments, Saudi-funded luxury apartments or hotels and the occasional shiny shopping malls, the Bosniaks have a country that doesn’t work, a country in which they can’t pursue the development they believe is required to make themselves secure. For who now would want to invest in Sarajevo? Aid from European countries, though it is their largest source of funding, seems an uncertain bl…

Hajj Journal: Door Number 89: The Door with No Name

By Amina Wadud

…nd make umrah. There’s the ihram, then we do tawaf around the Kaaba, sa’iy between Safa and Marwa, clip the hair, and we are done. We get to leave ihram until we take it up again for hajj proper, which will be about a week from now. Mr. Mansour then gave us some logistics about finding our way back to the hotel. Find a marker to help you go out of Door Number One, the King Abd Allah Aziz door. He said, “there 101 doors in and out of the Haram”—so…

The Mullet and the Mullahs: Iran’s War on Hair Reveals Ahmadinejad’s Weakness

By Hussein Rashid

…ce on the part of Ahmedinejad. As I have written about regarding the Saudi Arabians, decisions like this are an attempt to flex muscles that do not actually exist. The crackdown on the public sphere is something that is usually resented by Iranians. However, after the rise of the Green Movement last year, the crackdown on men’s hair can be seen as a way to exert control over the population again. Max Fisher at The Atlantic is sympathetic to this v…

Truth or Dare?

By Amina Wadud

…follow through with what I say I am all about. It’s also about consistency between the inner and the outer. In doing gender work, this applies to the relationship between the public and the private. I am appalled at how many violent, misogynist men think it’s okay to get away with abuse, disloyalty, infidelity, or threats to their wives at home, then go in the public space and pretend to be all virtuous and pious. I think to myself, piety begins a…

Kindred Hatemongers: Why American Islamophobes and Muslim Protesters Need Each Other

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…e more successful. Morris Sadek, another US-based Coptic Christian, helped promote the film on his website, and may have been the one who arranged for a translation into Arabic and the promotion of the video in Cairo. In Egypt and throughout the Muslim world, the filmmakers finally received the negative publicity and public protests that they’d sought all along. But although many Muslims were offended by the tawdry mocking of their Prophet in the…