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Trump Election Could Threaten LGBT Rights Globally

By Peter Montgomery

…ng to the CBC, “At least seven countries — Australia, Bangladesh, Germany, India, Nepal, New Zealand and Pakistan — permit citizens to choose an option other than male or female on their passports.” More from ABC: The Attorney-General George Brandis had warned a defeat would result in delaying same-sex marriage in Australia for years to come. But the Federal Opposition says the plebiscite would have resulted in harmful debate against the gay and l…

“We Found My Father, Except for His Hand”

By Haroon Moghul

…to us began excitedly waving to one of our hosts. It turns out that they knew each other, though the man’s cheerfulness belied his true purpose. He’d been living in America for years now, like tens of thousands of other exiled Bosniaks, and had returned solely for the commemorations at Srebrenica. His father’s body had finally been found; or at least all of it, except for a hand. Many Bosnians might feel the same about their country, impossible t…

Arrest the Pope: New Atheist Effort to Seek Justice in Sexual Abuse Crisis Should Be Applauded

By Frances Kissling

…ent back to Italy. “Father Vijay Vhaskr Godugunuru was forced to return to India and then was transferred to Italy after pleading no contest to assaulting a 15-year-old girl while visiting friends in Bonifay, Fla,” according to the AP. “He now ministers to a parish in a medieval town of about 4,000 in Tuscany, where he hears confessions, celebrates Mass and works with children.” SNAP, The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests is pushing for…

Evangelical Islamophobia as American as Apple Pie

By Shalom Goldman

…election to make Islam a campaign issue. Back in August he sought to make New York’s Park51 community center a Florida issue. “I’m totally against it. If I had my way, it would pretty much be over my dead body. That religion is against everything America stands for. If we have to let them build it, make them build it nine stories underground, so we can walk above it as citizens and Christians.” [For a survey of these and other Islam-related elect…

Trump, “Big Fan of Hindu,” To Force Thousands of Nepalis Back to Disaster Zone

By Murali Balaji

…ith Indians, up to a third of the Hindu population in the U.S. is not from India and close to 40 percent of the Indian-American population is not Hindu. Nepal is one of three Hindu majority countries in the world, and in 2015, the country was impacted by a devastating earthquake. To accommodate survivors of the quake, the Obama Administration granted temporary protected status (TPS) to nearly 10,000 Nepalis, most of who are Hindu. Last month, the…

Closing with Gospel in Morocco

By Hussein Rashid

…n among cultures, the sharing of music, the ability for music to suggest a new way of living together, or any other point that gave the festival a deeper sense of purpose would have been appreciated. Otherwise it becomes a type of cultural tourism for visitors where nothing is learned, but that item is checked off a list. For locals who can afford it, it is a “see-and-be-seen” event rather than a celebration of the cosmopolitan nature of Fes. Whil…

Rope of God: The Aceh Tsunami—Four Years On

By Mark Woodward

…7th-century treaty between one of the Sultans of Aceh and the British East India Company that guaranteed their independence as “proof” they were not part of the former Netherlands Indies or modern Indonesia. For more than a century, Dutch Christian colonials and Indonesian secular nationalists found it convenient to label the Acehenese as Islamic fanatics, extremists, terrorists—or by whatever term currently in vogue for demonizing Muslim resistan…

Trump’s Remark to Evangelicals is Straight Out of Global Authoritarian Playbook

By Murali Balaji

…r. The use of religious institutions as vehicles for governance is nothing new, but in the post-industrial era, autocrats have grown increasingly reliant upon them in order to fend off demographic and political change. Vladimir Putin has relied upon the Russian Orthodox Church to expand his power and influence, and in the process, accelerated attacks on religious minorities and LGBTQIA Russians. Similarly, Bashar al-Assad has imported Shi’ite supp…

RDBook: Whither the Religious Left?

By Bill Berkowitz

…edia attention. Many in the media have anointed Warren as representing the new face of Christian evangelicals; creating a new movement that not only distances itself from the old timers of the Religious Right, but one that is setting a new agenda for evangelicals. How do you view Warren’s work and where does he fit within the broad constellation of religious leaders? Frederick Clarkson: Four years ago, Rick Warren wrote an inflammatory letter abou…

Stirring Up Trouble: Why Gay People Are Not “Over It”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…, would have told Gandhi to “get over it” when the British took control of India. Or she would have counseled Martin Luther King Jr. to “get over it” when Bull Connor came after civil rights demonstrators with hoses and dogs. And she certainly would have told women to “get over it” when their right to vote was denied. Apparently, according to Sherrie, now that full rights have been denied, gay people should just go home, redecorate, and forget abo…