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

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…d 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 film, the violent responses came from those very specific groups which had a more targeted political agenda an…

Here’s What to Read on Syria and Egypt

By Haroon Moghul

…ished two pieces that are exceptional. The first is Hugh Roberts’ essay on Egypt, The Revolution That Wasn’t, which I’m now reading a second time. Meanwhile, on their blog, Adam Shatz describes the (un)surprising convergence of Israel and Saudi Arabia, both of which are concerned by Arab populism, Islamist mass movements, and Iranian policies and practices. (The odd country out here, which gets no mention, is Turkey, which as part of NATO and an E…

The Politics of Anti-Gay Persecution: Gambia, Egypt, Jamaica, Russia, with a Helping Hand from US Religious Conservatives; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…f a memorandum from President Obama charging US foreign policy agencies to promote LGBT rights said that US efforts have been important to activists promoting equality and facing persecution around the world. Read the Washington Blade’s report here. On Wednesday, the Daily Beast hosted an event called Quorum: Global LGBT Voices that featured interviews with more than 25 activists from around the world to talk about “what is happening on the front…

Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…cedented wave of attacks and hate comments. Faghal is considered the first Egyptian woman to come out publicly as a lesbian living in Egypt. She has received violent backlash from some social media users who saw her sexual orientation as a violation of the conservative Egyptian society and its Islamic ideals. Despite the fact that many launched an attack against Faghal, other users expressed support through messages and comments. Feminists and oth…

U.S. Religious Right Groups Support Move Toward ‘Illiberalism’ of Hungary and Poland; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nsible thing is how Western governments, and Western LGBTQ activists, give Egypt’s homophobic brutality a free pass. Under a 1961 law banning “debauchery,” men who have sex with men in Egypt face three years in prison. And ever since Abdel Fattah El-Sisi overthrew the elected Muslim Brotherhood government in a 2013 military coup, his minions have been working the law for all it’s worth. This furor is only the latest, if most convulsive and berserk…

Vatican Considers ‘Disordered’ Language; HBO Doc on LGBT Persecution in Russia; Nigerian Bishop Shifts on Anti-Gay Law; Arson at ‘Open Mosque’ in South Africa; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…clear response to those clergy who have entered into same-sex marriages”. Egypt: More on Egypt’s Anti-Gay Crackdown We reported last week on the increasingly harsh crackdown on LGBT people in Egypt as a means for the current government to ward off criticism from Islamist factions. This week the New York Times’sErnesto Londoño covered the phenomenon. He writes: In some ways, Egypt’s new government has become even more repressive and intolerant tha…

An Interview from Tahrir Square

By Waleed Naif

…challenge. We can’t afford to lose the sympathy and support of millions of Egyptians who may end up preferring the easier way out of the current instability. The main message being conveyed by Egyptian media is that these demonstrations have [brought] the country to a halt, are costing us dearly and people can’t afford it any more. “Your demands have been heard and the government is working to meet them, now go home,” they say. But we’re not going…

‘Rising Global Tide’ Of Anti-Gay Crackdowns; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…n social media that people should by worried by Labor’s refusal to protect free speech and freedom of Muslim and Christian schools. Labor though believes the bill struck an acceptable compromise between legalising gay marriage and protecting religious freedoms and resolved it would press the government to pass that bill in its current form as quickly as possible. Georgia: Marriage ban put in constitution; first openly gay candidate runs for office…

Anti-LGBT Culture Warriors On The March; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…relationships and advertising for gatherings of LGBT people. “Although the Free Egyptians Party had a clear position against Islamist government in 2012,” the document says, “their representative used the same approach of Islamists to criminalize homosexuality with a clear breach to the party principles.” The Alliance also published a video about the harsh anti-gay campaign that followed social media outrage after a rainbow flag was raised at a co…

First They Came for the Brotherhood . . . Egyptian Gov Seeks to Criminalize NGOs

By Austin Dacey

…0, or around $14,000. The Law on Associations is clearly inconsistent with Egypt’s international commitments to respect the human right of freedom of association as well as Article 75 of the constitution, which guarantees citizens the freedom of association. This week there were calls to delay a vote on the legislation until after parliamentary elections. Human rights defenders are bracing for the worst. “Our time is coming,” one researcher told H…