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Trump Election Could Threaten LGBT Rights Globally

By Peter Montgomery

…schools, if implemented here, would lead to drug and alcohol abuse, and a number of other ills, including higher rates of sexuality transmitted diseases, because children were being introduced to sexual perversions in order to turn them into little sexual deviants. The paper quotes Donnya Piggott, head of Barbados Gays and Lesbians Against Discrimination, saying: “I thought that the Church was completely out of touch with the people. And if you w…

Tony Perkins Will Fit Right in at Religious Freedom Commission

By Caroline Matas

…saying in an email that hiring Ghori-Ahmad to analyze religious freedom in Pakistan would be the equivalent of “hiring an IRA activist to research the UK twenty years ago.” Ghori-Ahmad claimed that her treatment by the USCIRF was part of a broader “pattern of bias against Muslims” on the part of the commission. Indeed, former USCIRF commissioner Khaled Abou El Fadl, a Muslim who teaches at UCLA School of Law, told the Washington Post that “[USCIRF…

A Tiny Little Mecca for
the West

By Haroon Moghul

…t neighborhoods of Mostar, shiny new Croatian flags jut out from every telephone pole. When we drove into Republika Srpska later that day, a shiny tricolor flag hung horizontally, and because the order of the colors seemed reversed, I thought I was looking at Russia’s flag. This is not just nationalism, but something more elemental: Much like Pakistan, it seems there’s no Bosnia without a Muslim identity. (What is a Bosniak, if Catholic Bosnians a…

No Such Thing as a Great 9/11 Work of Art

By Hussein Rashid

…rs, is about a multi-generational household. The family happens to be from Pakistan and they happen to be Muslim. As I write in an earlier review, “their stories can belong to anyone. That is the power of Domestic Crusaders. It is billed as an immigrant, Pakistani, Muslim experience, but it is the story of any community that is trying to preserve a unique identity against the forces of a homogenizing popular culture.” The children fight with their…

The Blasphemy of ISIS: A 7-Point Pro-Guide to Islam(ism)

By Haroon Moghul

…nd textually faithful conversation. Far from it. As a postscript, Iran and Pakistan are both Islamic Republics. The latter is a parliamentary democracy, whereas the former is, well, a constitutional… theocracy, for lack of a better term. So what then is an Islamic Republic? 4. Islamic law Not Shariah. Confusion of the two is rampant and unfortunate. Islamic law is an interpretation of Shariah; while various interpretations may be authoritative, an…

State Department Finds Religion, But Whose?

By Melani McAlister

…pment of US policy toward Sudan, which IRFA-associated groups named as the Number One violator of religious freedom for five years in a row, as US policy evolved to support the country’s division into Sudan and South Sudan in 2010. But the law plays virtually no role in US policy toward Saudi Arabia, given that, for 15 years, the president has waived sanctions on the basis of US national security interests.) More recently, people generally mean th…

17 Reasons Why Women Wear Headscarves

By Shabana Mir

…ims believe that both men and women should cover their heads. In India and Pakistan, for instance, men usually wear skullcaps during ritual prayer.) So, many women who do not wear head-covers all the time may do so for religious occasions, or when inspired to do so. 3.) Head-covers convey a message of purity and godliness to many observers. Different traditions of religious iconography use mantles and other head-covers to symbolize purity and even…

Bangladesh’s Atheist Blogger Still Wants to Talk

By Austin Dacey

…ities committed during the 1971 war for independence of what was then East Pakistan, many of whom went on to become leaders in religious parties such as Jamaat, bent on sabotaging the country’s strides towards secular democracy. In February 2013, after the long-sought International Crimes Tribunal convicted Abdul Quader Mollah and others of war crimes, mass protests denounced the sentences as overly lenient and demanded death sentences and the ban…

Ainslie Embree’s Gift to Religious Studies

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ssay, he ruminated over the partition of India in 1948 and the creation of Pakistan. Though ostensibly an attempt to keep Muslim and Hindu communities separate, Embree thought that issue was never about religious identity but about religious politics, the aspiration of competing political leaders, and wondered how history might have been different if the British had not conceived the issue in communal religious terms. The case of South Asia, Embre…

“We’re Not Fighting About Politics, We’re Fighting About God”: Diana Butler Bass Wants a Revolution

By Jesse James DeConto

…ike him really gives me a lot of hope. I have been surprised at seeing the number of young, white pastors involved in Black Lives Matter, and the passion that they bring. I know people in their 30s who are active around the Sojourners community and things like that. I’m learning from them, and I’m glad for what they’re doing. So those are some of the things I see—the rewriting of theology in a new generation; people who are not afraid to ask quest…