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All-American Muslim is Just TV, Folks

By Zeba Iqbal

…. A Broadway producer had taken a risk on the play, and on telling a South Asian story. As an Indian American I felt that made it worthy of my support. Even if this production was not great, it was the beginning of something great. Unsurprisingly, the show closed within seven months. But seven years later there are more, and more authentic, Indian characters on television (Parks and Recreation, The Good Wife, Community, The Big Bang Theory, The Of…

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

By Shalom Goldman

…t be attending the Jaipur Literature Festival, India’s premier showcase of Asian literature. Rushdie hid for 11 years after Khomeini’s 1989 public call for his death, only emerging in 2000. Now in 2012 he is threatened again. Unremarked upon in the recent hullabaloo concerning Rushdie was that only a few months ago a religious edict, or fatwa, was issued against another “blasphemous” Muslim author, Rafiq Tagi of Azerbaijan. And this decree, which…

Heaven On Earth: A Non-Hysterical History of Shari’ah

By Haroon Moghul

…a much narrower focus on jihad and terrorism. Considering the Gallup poll numbers, which indicate that the more religious a person claims to be, the less tolerant they are of militancy and violence, how do you explain your moving from how Muslims conceive of Shari’ah to a narrower and more securitized frame of Shari’ah, which seems to exclude many Muslim experiences of Shari’ah outside certain crisis areas, like Pakistan and Afghanistan? Structu…

“You Lie!”: Messing with American Mass

By Ben Brazil

…a. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America—there’s the United States of America. After all, even a commitment to argue with each other carries implicit commitment to the nation and its democratic institutions. Civil religion—and the power of civil religious ritual—goes a long way towards explaining the outrage felt by legislators and by many Americans. The president was not speaking to a labor union in…

How Will We Teach About Sikhism After the Tragedy?

By Laurie Patton

…o a tradition actually teach that tradition. The history of teaching about Asian religions in the United States began with Anglo-American scholars who became knowledgeable and the history and languages of Sikhism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and many others. But as more immigrants arrived to the United States after the 1965 immigration act, that situation began to shift. By the 1990s, two key trends emerged: there were many communities who preferred that…

Muslim Leaders Want Less Cover-Up

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…oviet government made a strategic attempt to extract religion from Central Asian satellites and replace it with Soviet nationalism. Outwardly, religiosity appears to be rising in Uzbekistan: mosque attendance is up and more women are wearing headscarves. But there is a crucial detail on the headscarf bit: the problem isn’t that women are wearing headscarves. Tursunov’s objection is that women are wearing a specific type of headscarves. The imam’s…

Why Don’t White People Show Up For Juneteenth The Way They Showed Up For George Floyd?

By A. E. Brooks-Key

…but I refrained from intruding into their Juneteenth experience. The small number of White individuals, couples, and families often looked uncomfortable navigating the happy, jubilant, celebratory mass of Black bodies regaled in red, black, green, and gold. Was this a South Carolina anomaly? I doubt it. According to one poll, 51% of Americans had no plan to celebrate (and more than half of those respondents declared that “they would not take part…

Queer Religion and Community at HRC Summer Institute

By Rebecca T. Alpert

…hat “we who had the privilege to come together in this manner will use what we learned [to] continue to create authentic ways to communicate care in the service of advancing justice.” Mentor Patrick S. Cheng provides a fitting summary of the connection we experienced: “As a gay Asian American theologian, I frequently live at the toxic intersections of homophobia, racism, and extreme secularism. However, for me the HRC Summer Institute was a life-g…

Church=State in Putin’s Orthodox Empire?; Evangelical-Orthodox Anti-Gay Alliance; Malaysian Court Protects Transwomen; Catholicism (Still) Declining in Latin America; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…f on social media. According to Gulf News, “Lawmakers, wary of the growing number of gays in the country, have been pushing for a crackdown, including the adoption of tougher immigration measures against expatriate homosexuals and their prompt deportation.” Egypt: ‘The Plight of Homosexuals in Egypt’ We reported last week on the prison sentences given to eight men arrested after a video of an unofficial same-sex wedding went viral. This week journ…

American Horror Story: Hotel and Monotheism’s Dirty Little Secrets

By W. Scott Poole

…he universe. Such concepts are mostly unknown to Western European and West Asian monotheisms. Monotheism exhibits a peculiar talent for creating monsters of moral degeneracy, horrors of perversity. The idea of one God creates irresolvable tensions, raises questions about the source of suffering in a world created by a Being both omnipotent and allegedly full of compassion. Monsters, Christianity’s Satan lurking in the shadows behind them all, have…