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Monks With Guns: Discovering Buddhist Violence

By Michael Jerryson

…illustrate the violent history of Buddhism across Mongolia, Tibet, Japan, China, Korea, Thailand, Sri Lanka, and India. Our intention is not to argue that Buddhists are angry, violent people—but rather that Buddhists are people, and thus share the same human spectrum of emotions, which includes the penchant for violence. Although the book only arrived at bookstores last month, it apparently touched some nerves in the academic community before its…

An American Muslim Abroad, Or, Things I Saw in Dubai

By Haroon Moghul

…on one leg with your opposite foot drowning in the sink and your arms and hair sopping wet. Usually the encounter is so unexpected that no words are exchanged, just brief, pregnant glances, moments never to be spoken of again. If your colleagues are particularly unlucky, they’ll just come in after you’re done and slip and crack something open on the watery mess you’ve made. But in Muslim-majority countries (the above is from Ataturk International…

How “Race Tests” Maintain Evangelical Segregation

By Joshua L. Lazard

…ed Jesus as a medium-to-small-framed white guy with either blond of brown hair wearing a robe. But, as contemporary churches designed new sanctuary spaces, with massive stages replacing traditional pulpits, the actors on the stage replaced the icons. Effectively, then, “Jesus” was still a medium-to-small-framed white guy with either blond or brown hair. When the representation of holiness—in pastors, lay leaders and worship leaders—is still overwh…

RDPulpit: Why I am going to Iran

By Rev. Osagyefo Sekou

…n while our government issued threats of war and retaliation to Russia and China, currently partnering with peace communities in Colombia. This, the eighth FOR delegation to Iran, includes a wide range of individuals committed to peace and justice in the region. I shall accompany noted Bush Administration critic and former UN weapons inspector, Scott Ritter, and a twenty-something, half-Jewish/half-Iranian woman who has never been to Iran. Our aim…

Win For ‘Natural Family’ Crowd at UN Human Rights Council…

By Peter Montgomery

…ng liberal social mores.” It was backed by 29 countries, including Russia, China and many members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, such as Indonesia, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. America, South Africa, South Korea and 11 European countries (including Britain, France and Germany) voted against, on grounds that it put too much emphasis on traditional family structures. South Africa unsuccessfully tried to insert language that took account o…

Vatican Enlists Allies Against Gay Marriage; Iranian Gays Pushed to Change Gender; And More in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…he country: Some are thinking of leaving the mainly Muslim state bordering China if the law is passed by parliament, mirroring a move last year by Russia that outraged the West and was seen by critics as part of a broader crackdown on civil society. The law is backed by Muslim clerics: Maksat Hajji Toktomushev, Kyrgyzstan’s grand mufti, said there should be no discussion of gay issues. “These are psychologically ill people, their psyche is destroy…

Dalai Lama’s ‘Suck My Tongue’ Controversy Reveals Centuries-Old Christian Distortion of Tibetan Buddhism

By Geoffrey Goble

…impeach his character in the West. Indeed, according to Vice, professor of China studies Timothy Grose believes that “the interaction is being weaponised by sympathisers of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).” In other quarters, accusations of pedophilia, “grooming,” and sexual assault flooded comment boards. In a matter of days a globally recognized religious figure is reincarnated in the public perception as a sexual predator; yet another man who…

Forgiving LeBron, Fetal Jesus Sonogram, and Hummus Wars

By Michael J. Altman

…en Dragon was going to be the long awaited sequel to Big Trouble in Little China. Turns out it’s a right-wing Christian anti-environmentalism DVD series. Bummer. Hummus sparked a controversy between pro-Palestinian and Jewish students at DePaul University. A federal judge has put a permanent hold on the Oklahoma ballot measure that prohibited Sharia law in state courts. In Saudi Arabia, the Mecca Clock Royal Tower is under construction. When finis…

The Risks of Remaining Neutral on Egypt

By Haroon Moghul

…gesture manifest itself in concrete policy. Didn’t President Obama go to Cairo in 2009 for just this reason? The line that received the loudest applause wasn’t about Islam or Palestine or Iraq. It was about democracy. When President Obama struggled to determine from which city he should deliver his address to the world’s many Muslims, he chose Cairo. Here’s another chance for a new beginning: A real message of hope and change to Egypt would rippl…

The Double Life of the War Criminal

By Laurie Patton

…versity, and then travelled around India and Japan, ultimately settling in China to study Chinese herbs. “In the mid-1990s,” reports the site, “Dr. Dabic” returned to mother Serbia for good.” The website concludes by asserting that he has since “emerged as one of the prominent experts in the field of alternative medicine, bioenergy and macrobiotic diet in the whole of the Balkans.” And, to top it all off, Dr. Dabic can be reached at healingwounds@…