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GOP ‘Big Tent’ Implosion: Hindu Edition

By Murali Balaji

…age in a district where the Hindu population is rapidly growing, and where Asian Americans are growing into a sizable—and still largely untapped—voting bloc. Advocacy groups like the Hindu American Foundation and Hindus of Greater Houston have large chapters with bipartisan membership, making the GOP’s ad-fail all the more curious. Couldn’t they have, at the very least, asked a Hindu first? While the Republicans’ attempts at cultural sensitivity d…

Uncertainty About US Role In LGBT Human Rights Under Trump; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ed by rise in anti-LGBTIQ religious extremism The Association of Southeast Asian Nations celebrates the 50th anniversary of its founding this year; ASEAN is being chaired this year by the Philippines. A statement by ASEAN’s SOGIE caucus celebrates the association’s resiliency and regionalism, but called attention to inequities faced by LGBTIQ people, which the caucus says ASEAN “has failed to seriously address.” The statement decries the increasin…

Don’t Call it a Turkish Spring

By Haroon Moghul

…to be more generous than I thought. On a boat ride over to Uskudar, on the Asian side of Istanbul, I met a family of religious Turks, one of whom was carrying an AKP flag. Were they going to the rally, called that night to demonstrate unity in the face of the protests? “No,” one of them said, “we’re going to a cultural show.” Why the flag then? They supported Erdogan—but had better things to do that night. “Our Brothers and Sisters” Late the next…

Embattled Professor Took a Stand for “Human Solidarity,” Versus Entrenched Evangelical Fear

By Ivy George

As an Asian Christian who teaches at a Christian college in Massachusetts and has worn the shalwar kameez as my “duty uniform,” for more than twenty-five years I took bemused note of recent headlines regarding a “hijab-wearing Christian professor.” For centuries men and women have worn variations of this outfit—a long tunic, loose baggy bottoms, and a scarf—all across the region from North Africa to South Asia. I wear it for free movement of my f…

NY Subway Killing a Case of Blind Hatred?

By Laurie Patton

…d in northern Italy.” Corrective guidelines were immediately issued by the Asian American Journalists’ Association. But the damage was done. However the media handle it, scholars of religion have long argued that religious literacy—knowing who is who—is intimately connected to tolerance of religious diversity, to a climate in which the stranger no longer seems strange. We are not talking about ideal harmony here; just a way of living together in w…

Love the Scholarship But Hate the Scholar’s Sin?: ‘Himpathy’ for an Academic Pedophile Enables a Culture of Abuse

By Stephen Young

…ld porn on his computer, including of child rape. Many of the victims were Asian children. So we have another entry in the long history of white men participating in the violent subjugation of non-white people. But, as in so many instances of men in positions of power who are outed as abusers, the story doesn’t end there. The story should end with patriarchy because that’s where the pervasive phenomenon of men abusing others begins. It’s where the…

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

By Carolyn Gallaher and Priya Dixit

…7): 107-20. [7] Rupert Emerson, “The Erosion of Democracy,” The Journal of Asian Studies 20(1) (1960): 1-8. [8] Steven Fish, “The Dynamics of Democratic Erosion,” in Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy, eds. Richard D. Anderson, M. Steven Fish, Stephen E. Hanson and Philip G. Roeder (Princeton University Press, 2001), 54-95. [9] A.J. Christopher, “Decolonisation without independence,” GeoJournal 56 (3) (2002): 213-224 [10] The history of the…

Is the Pope’s Concern for Immigration Just a “Numbers Game”?

By Megan Sweas

…Catholic Church’s interest in immigration ranges far beyond the Latino and Asian immigrants bolstering the ranks of the U.S. church. “For us Christians [working for refugees] is an expression of the love of the Father in Christ Jesus,” Pope Francis said of working with refugees when he visited Centro Astalli, the Jesuit Refugee Service’s Center in Rome two years ago. Before mentioning migrants from Latin America traveling north to the United State…

God’s Body, God’s Plan: The Komen Furor and Abortion as Black/Latino “Genocide”

By Sikivu Hutchinson

…ight wing opposition to universal health care coverage that Black, Latina, Asian, and Native American women are more likely to rely on the wraparound health care services that Planned Parenthood provides. Yet, in chastising bad Black and Latino women about the genocidal evil of abortion, groups like the International Coalition of Color want to keep women of color grossly misinformed. In one especially fraudulent PowerPoint slide on the group’s web…

Romney on Israel: More GOP Than LDS

By Sarah Posner

…C. Peterson, professor of Islamic Studies and Arabic in the Department of Asian and Near Eastern Languages at Brigham Young University, editor in chief of the BYU Middle Eastern Texts Initiative, and author of the book Abraham Divided: An LDS Perspective on the Middle East, said in an interview that growing up as a Mormon in California in the 1960s, most Latter-Day Saints were “very militantly pro-Israeli.” That stance has evolved, however, said…