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What Can Ancient India Tell Us About Our World?

By Bruce Rich

…tal lawyer has focused on promoting environmental and social standards for international lending. I often visited India, and in one of my trips, I traveled as a tourist to an archaeological site in Orissa state, Dhauli, to view stone inscriptions overlooking the site of a battle that took place in 260 BC. The inscriptions state that 100,000 were killed and 150,000 carried off. But the battle’s victor expresses tremendous remorse and proclaims that…

Purchasing Morality: What Happens When “Buying Local” Itself is Marketed?

By Laurie Patton

…e can see how, for the Trobriand Islanders, local relations matter even in international trading expeditions. And the myth was retold in Trobriand society to reinforce the case. We might even glean some basic wisdom for our times from such a myth: “Trade globally; inherit magic locally!” But Malinowski’s idea of myth as social charter only gets us so far in how we as global consumers understand our world. However far their trading routes took them…

Global LGBT Recap:Culture War Exports, Mob Violence and Kidnapping as Weapon of Homophobia

By Peter Montgomery

…D.C. this week, Katrina Lantos Swett, Vice Chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, mentioned the infamous anti-gay “propaganda” law as one of many repressive, anti-democratic laws that have been adopted in Putin’s Russia. She said that laws on “religious freedom” and “extremism” grant special favor to the Orthodox Church while giving the government wide latitude to discriminate against minority religions. That favored stat…

The Strategic Caution of the Muslim Brotherhood

By Zaid Hassan

…the Brotherhood is well aware of the potential backlash, both locally and internationally, if it is seen to have captured the state, which is certainly a factor in how it approaches the coming transition. In the introduction to the 2008 edition of his book, Who Needs An Islamic State?, Dr. Abdelwahab El-Affendi writes: [T]he Muslim Brotherhood’s electoral success ha[s] made it more vulnerable as a target of the ruling regime. It has also become…

Must We Burn Something to Get Attention?: 50 Years After the Catonsville Nine

By Jason C. Bivins

…rty Law Center as a hate group) are affiliated with the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, when Robert Jeffress is the poisonous voice sanctifying the American embassy’s relocation in Israel, when the Vice President of the United States understands Christianity as a “get out of jail free” card used to freely exercise open bigotry, it can seem pretty conclusive that power has prevailed over justice. But consider some other words of…

Creators of Missing Lowe’s Ad Tell All

By Hussein Rashid

…e out he actually has a brilliant and sexy wife, it would totally ruin our international sales in Iran and the Emirates. RM: We wanted to offend as many people in the commercial as we possibly could. A homosexual Muslim couple putting up Christmas lights after buying caulk from Lowe’s we thought would do the trick. Did Lowe’s approach you to make this ad, or did you do it on your own? PC: Sarah Palin told us to make the ad. She’s mad her show abou…

Al-Qaeda calls Obama “house Negro,” Muslims Answer

By Fatemeh Fakhraie

…namo Bay, and use more diplomacy in the Muslim world all translate to more international cooperation from the US and less support for al-Qaeda. Without international support, Al-Qaeda has to draw on localized support, which is also dwindling after political instability and massive casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. With no support, al-Zawahiri (and al-Qaeda) is as good as the lone protester who is sidestepped by the masses on their way to work. T…

Anti-Gay Ugandan Bill Set to Pass. Warren Silent.

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…a battle for marriage equality would be a welcome luxury for them. Despite international pressure against this despicable and inhumane law, Reuters is reporting that it will likely pass, with some modifications. Spero News reports that the terms of the bill currently are: “[L]ife term in prison for one homosexual act. Option of the death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality”, which includes relations with a minor or a disabled person; repeated ho…

The Only Surprising Thing About the ‘Demon Sperm’ Doctor’s Views Is That They’re Shared By Many Evangelicals

By Lenny J. Lowe

…gical perspective. The discourse of spiritual warfare has become a kind of international Christian dialect. Still, whether one knows much about the movement or not, no one should be surprised to find its views trumpeted from the highest office in the land. In 2011, the New Apostolic Reformation hosted a prayer conference featuring former Secretary of Energy, Rick Perry. Perhaps an even nearer comparison can be found in former Alaska Governor and 2…

Is Pro-Life Cause Célèbre Chen Guangcheng Actually Pro-Life?

By Lindsay Beyerstein

…ration is complicit in China’s One Child policy through its support of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA). “Perhaps that is why, according to Chen, his American ‘hosts’ started to sound more like fellow members of the international population-control mafia that is killing his country, than starry-eyed defenders of ‘human rights,’” Hoffman continued. (Hoffman provides no citation and I was unable to find evidence that Chen said anything of…