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White Christian Nationalism May Not Be Religious, But It Is Christian

By Murali Balaji

…Israel; Islamism in parts of Africa, the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia; Hindu nationalism in parts of India; Buddhist nationalism in Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand—that have grown in recent years are grounded in theology. They’re all connected by a shared sense of grievance and an imagined community based on assumed shared ideals. The New Zealand terrorist might not have been religious per se, but he was 100 percent devoted to the divine…

Eat, Pray, Trash: What the Critics Don’t See

By Ben Brazil

…become increasingly “inauthentic,” Latin America, Africa, and (especially) Asia have been deemed “authentic.” Dean MacCannell noticed just this projected sort of authenticity in his 1976 The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class. But even before the Beatles went to India, elite Westerners had begun juxtaposing the “spiritual” East to the “materialist” West, a move that (as post-colonial critics have pointed out) projected Western desires and…

Why Don’t Muslims Condemn Terrorism?

By Hussein Rashid

…others. As a case in point, I mention that Mumbai represents another Anglophone metropole, and I assume most people think of New York (9/11) and London (7/7). How many thought of Madrid (3/11)? With New York and London we are witnesses, at a distance, of the lives of the people who died and, to a certain extent, the people who carried out these attacks. We know at least some of their names and we’re inundated with multiple day coverage of the eve…

Burma’s Spirit Festival, and More in This Week’s Global LGBT Roundup

By Peter Montgomery

…n, who has warned LGBT people against becoming “provocative,” and with any number of European populists who promise a return to a mythical “traditional” past. Gessen notes that a year ago she wrote that she believed Trump would target the LGBT community ”because its acceptance is the most clear and drastic social change in America of the last decade, so an antigay campaign would capture the desire to return to a time in which Trump’s constituency…

Ultra Orthodox Murder-Suicide Makes Headlines

By Shalom Goldman

…living in Israel proper are 500,000 so-called “guest workers” from Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe. Outside of “Israel proper” lie the territories (variously modified with the adjectives “liberated,” “occupied,” or “administered”). In these territories (the Golan Heights, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip), Israel has varying degrees of control over the Palestinian population (approximately 3.5 million people) and over the Jewish settler population (…

The Myth of the ‘Lone Wolf’ Terrorist Continues with New Zealand Attack

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…tween Tarrant and the Norwegian terrorist Andres Breivik is relevant for a number of reasons. Like Breivik, Tarrant was part of a wider subculture of hatred. He likely thought of himself not as a terrorist but as a soldier in a great and hidden war, carrying out a mission on behalf of an imagined constituency of supporters. Like Breivik, he dressed up in military garb with militant patches—in Tarrant’s case he wore the symbol of the Azov Battalion…

Nonviolence, Muslim Style: From Ghaffar Khan to Tahrir Square

By Eric Stoner

…ase of Ghaffar Khan’s movement there was the participation of a surprising number of women, given how conservative—and you can even argue misogynist—Pashtun society had been traditionally. They allowed women to participate because he said so and his honor and stature was such that they couldn’t resist. Back in the 1930s and 1940s, women used to lead their marches! This is just incredible. What power and influence he must have had to convince them…

Muslim Voices Festival: A Teahouse, and a Shakespeare Play

By Hussein Rashid

…y and listen, giving your approval of the performers. Rachel Cooper of the Asia Society introduced the event, highlighting the idea of recreating an intimate space that exemplifies how most Muslims interact with their musicians and poets. The event was a nice counter-point to the staged performances earlier in the week. As a way to break down barriers, it was a brilliant move, where people mingled, sat on floors, and ate food together. The event a…

Douthat’s Criticism of Pope’s Restriction of Latin Mass Is Fascinating; It’s Also Ahistorical and Has Been Used Before

By Massimo Faggioli

…Massgoers and German Protestantizers,” but of Catholics in Latin America, Asia, and especially Africa. Douthat should also know that the globalization of Catholicism is happening in the West as well: U.S. Catholicism is no longer dominated by the concerns of white Catholics, and the same will soon have to be said for European Catholicism. These are massive, historical forces which no pope—not even a Napoleon kind of pope—can stop. It’s a developm…

Peru’s Civil Unions Bill Killed as Bishop Calls Sponsor ‘Faggot’; Germany Fines Men For Trying To Force Gay Muslim Teen Into Hetero Marriage; LGBT Global Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…gay legislation over a year ago, fueling anti-gay violence. Australia: Gay Asian Migrants Find Home; Fighting Fire & Brimstone with Cyndi Lauper Two reports by Lydia Feng for SBS World New Radio examine “whether Australia – and especially Sydney – lives up to its label as a so-called gay mecca for Asian migrants.” Australian musician Axel Winter became a social media hit this week thanks to video of his creative approach to defusing the tension be…