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Media Fail to Acknowledge That 2024 Hopeful Ron DeSantis is as Catholic as Biden

By Chrissy Stroop

…cs requires digging much deeper than coverage in the legacy media or cable news. As a child, DeSantis, a descendant of Italian immigrants, attended Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School in Dunedin, Florida. As an adult, he remains Catholic enough not only to have his son baptized with water from the Sea of Galilee, but also to emphasize “the power of prayer” in public settings. DeSantis attends political prayer breakfasts where he calls Communism “a…

Trump Floated Dastardly Deal With Erdogan

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…is to bring Gulen himself back to Turkey for a widely publicized public mock trial where imagined charges would be brought in a travesty of justice. If he were able to use the pressure on Saudi Arabia from the Khashoggi killing to lure the Trump administration into complicity with this plan, his cunning plot would have become complete….

Virginians may Vote in Elections, But in Counties with Militias Democracy Hangs in the Balance

By Carolyn Gallaher and Priya Dixit

…es State of Emergency in Advance of Pro-gun Rally near State Capitol,” CBS News, January 15, 2020. [68] Ned Oliver and Graham Moomaw, “As Virginia Democrats advance new gun restrictions, militias organize, promising to resist,” Virginia Mercury, January 13, 2020; Hannah Hall, “Augusta County supervisors will not approve plan for militia,” WHSV3 News, February 25, 2020; Autumn Childress, “Rockingham County Supervisors Reject Unorganized Militia Pro…

PRRI’s Robert P. Jones Discusses Authoritarianism, Christian Nationalism, and What the 2024 Election is Really About

By Daniel Schultz

…hould be able to ignore Congress. I think you’re right. There’s some scary news here, but there’s some good news. Overwhelmingly Americans aren’t lining up behind the authoritarian project and aren’t buying the strongman cocktail that Trump is trying to sell. It’s particularly true when you start asking about specifics: Are we going to need to resort to violence? Do we need to ensure the rightful leader takes office? It’s notable that all three of…

Religious Traditionalists Resist Marriage Equality, Artist Questions What Is “Un-African” & More in This Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…me for one of southern Africa’s most entrenched acts of heteronormativity? Saudi Arabia: Government denies police killing of arrested trans women The government is denying activists’ claims that “two transgender women from Pakistan were beaten to death in police custody after being arrested in Saudi Arabia along with more than 30 other members of the community.” Northern Ireland: Marriage-blocking party loses seats In Northern Ireland, the Democra…

Clashing human rights visions for LGBTs at United Nations; More Mixed Messages from the Vatican as Family Synod Begins; Timeline of Worsening Homophobia by Turkey’s AKP Party; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ciation of Zimbabwe, pledged he would continue to fight. Two days earlier, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir declared that the country would not follow any rules relating to the U.N.’s new sustainable development goals that reference homosexuality and thus run “counter to Islamic law.” Even though overt references to LGBTs were stripped from the document, Al-Jubeir said that “mentioning sex in the text, to us, means exactly male and f…

Egypt Goes After Gays to Silence Islamist Critics; South Africa’s ‘Open Mosque’ is Closed; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…and does not explicitly mention homosexuality. But section 361 of a draft new code states the punishment for anyone who has sexual intercourse with someone of the same sex is 15 to 20 years in jail and a fine of 50,000-500,000 Central African francs (£60-£600), according to a document seen by Agence France-Presse. The cabinet claims that the measure is intended to “protect the family and to comply with Chadian society”. It will go before MPs and…

Sacred Texting: When Religious Writ Gets Wired

By Rachel Wagner

…to recite the prayers. In response, a poster quotes the twentieth century Saudi Arabian Muslim scholar Sheikh Muhammad b. Sâlih al-`Uthaymîn as arguing against this use of a text, as it distracts from the bodily movements required in Muslim prayer. The poster likened this fatwa’s proscriptions to the use of iPods, advising the new Muslim to avoid it during prayer. There is also the issue of the virtual relay of religiously significant messages an…

Detroit’s Baggy Pants Fatwa

By Svend White

…ll known for enforcing strict, puritanical dress codes on their citizenry. Saudi Arabia’s toleration of the feared muttawi‘in (“volunteers” in Arabic) is well known. These vigilantes roam the land, harassing those deemed in violation of Islamic norms of modesty. In Iran, a division of the police department exists to enforce sartorial probity, with uniformed men and women wandering like parking cops on the look out for violations. Now, as much as I…

A Writer’s Murder Raises Fears of Death-by-Decree

By Shalom Goldman

…“does not really care about human rights in the Islamic world. Think about Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. Despite the bad human rights situation in Iran, the conditions are better than in Saudi Arabia.” He points to the status of women in today’s Iran. More than 60% of university students are women. And, unlike in Saudi Arabia, women in Iran drive. Kadivar delights in telling me that in the holy city of Qom, there are women cab drivers who specialize i…