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Challenging 2-D Depictions of Islam on CNN

By Hussein Rashid

Bruce Lawrence’s recent piece on Islamophobia/Islamophilia here at RD highlights two different approaches to understanding Muslims. The first is a popular, essentializing vision that treats Muslims as a monolith. This approach seeks to place Muslim history in a story where Muslims would not recognize themselves. It can only reach this point by oversimplifying comparative traditions, as Spencer Dew so deftly points out in his critique. The other a…

Osama and Orientalism: Where Islamophobes Meet Al-Qaeda

By Hussein Rashid

…s for this claim is that what I’m suggesting is not what is being shown on CNN. What this does is construct a Muslim identity that creates a threatening “other,” based on their own readings of the Qur’an, or on information gleaned from the media. One of the most important aspects of what I’m describing is what Carl W. Ernst calls scripturalism. In Following Muhammad, he says: But the focus of many modern Protestant denominations on the Bible has l…

On The Kerry Apartheid Comment and the Cycle of Chutzpah

By Sarah Posner

…Fingerhut explained that a J Street U student initiated the invitation to Breaking The Silence, a group Hillel would not have invited itself. Nonetheless, Fingerhut admitted, Breaking The Silence “is, regrettably, part of the broad tent of dialogue regarding Israel.” But Fingerhut et al., Na’aman writes, “seem to be more concerned with their own feelings toward Israel — their ‘tent’ — than with Israel. Mention of the actions of the IDF, the value…

Pride Month & Prejudice; ‘Worrisome Time’ For LGBT People; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…shows anything it’s that prejudice has no hold in this Republic,” he told BBC. As CNN reports, he was elected leader of the Fine Gael party on Friday and will be confirmed as prime minister on June 13. Australia: Margaret Court charges Americans with financing conspiracy against her A feud between former tennis greats continued, with Martin Navratilova calling for the Margaret Court Arena to be renamed for former aboriginal tennis star Evonne Goo…

Will International Criminal Court Bring Charges Against ISIS For Gender-Based Persecution?; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…he issue today, 377A would stand,” Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong told the BBC in an interview in February. “My personal view is that if I do not have a problem, this is an uneasy compromise, I am prepared to live with it until social attitudes change.” Media policies, meanwhile, continue to block any positive portrayals of same-sex relationships, and conservative elements are both vocal and organized in lobbying against any move towards greater e…

Ex-Mormons Shouldn’t Proselytize Mormons… Really?

By Holly Welker

…harmful stereotypes that all who leave the Church want to immediately get drunk and actively recruit others out of the Church. Well, it might propagate that stereotype if that’s all one is attuned to see—if the paragraphs in the article about the psychological distress of discovering problems with the church’s truth claims, or the difficulty of finding someone with whom to discuss doubts, or the need to find a community beyond Mormonism, are someh…

Anti-Gay Groups Running Out of Search Engines

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…the option of avoiding the tax by getting married.” Focus cried foul to FoxNews saying: “If Google wants to be truly fair to its employees, it should consider extra compensation to married heterosexuals who are bitten every April 15 by the marriage-penalty tax,” spokesman Gary Schneeberger told FoxNews.com. “How is offering more money to only one group to offset a perceived inequity not a form of discrimination against those groups not fortunate e…

Talking Justice on Twitter: “We Are Breaking Down Barriers”

By Arafat Kabir

…with each other in ways that are transformative, and symbolic of this new world of social media. They are all Jewish and I am Muslim, and we are breaking down barriers. Our backgrounds and religions are relegated to the background as we share ideas, hopes, worries, and more. These friendships forged online are not tainted by stereotypes and prejudice, but are stronger because we respect one another’s differences. Maybe people who reach out on soc…

Breaking Up with God: I Didn’t Lose My Faith, I Left It

By Sarah Sentilles

…I can’t know if God exists, but I do know the word God is operating in the world, running around doing all kinds of work, good and bad, and I think, as a theologian, I have a responsibility to think critically about the kinds of gods we make and worship and to try to come up with versions of god that might make the world a more just and life-giving place for everyone. Did you have a specific audience in mind when writing? I had many different audi…

New Mormon Anti-Gay Policy Sparks Mass Exodus From Church; Christian AID Workers in Africa Refuse to Help Gay Refugees; Ukraine Rejects, Then Accepts EU-Required Gay Rights Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…vil genius to manufacture such a “Sophie’s choice.” Kendell wrote that the news was “crushing” to LGBT advocates who had been working to change the tone of the church’s approach to LGBT people: Two months ago, when I attended a conference in Utah sponsored by Affirmation, a support organization for LGBT Mormons and friends and family, I met many non-gay Mormon officials who supported their LGBT congregants. I met a lesbian couple from Seattle who…