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“Americans Hate Muslims, Too” (And Other Impediments to U.S. Advocacy for Religious Freedom Abroad)

By Chad Bauman

…eling through India in the summer of 1998, I arrived with some friends at Varanasi’s main train station. Wanting to retrace the steps of characters from Shusako Endo’s novel, Deep River, we made a call to a backpacker’s hostel featured in its pages. The proprietor confirmed that there were rooms available, and so we set off in a rickshaw that sniffed and buzzed its way through the narrow, winding streets of the ancient city. Arriving at the hostel…

Kendrick Lamar’s Hip-Hop Jeremiad

By Josiah Daniels

…erusalem that Jeremiah sat mourning and he lamented this lament. Kendrick Lamar’s Untitled Unmastered (UU), surprise-released at the beginning of this month, paints an intimate portrait of the artist’s emotional, psychological and religious pro/digression. And for me it hits close to home. Kendrick’s lyrics reflect existential questions authors like Kelly Brown Douglas and I have been wrestling with post-Trayvon. Also, I live on the Westside of Ch…

Angry Voters, Right-Wing Populism, & Racial Violence: People of Faith Can Help Break the Linkages

By Chip Berlet

…lready moving to the political right. After Scott was elected, President Obama began using populist rhetoric to try to regain support for Democratic Party reforms. Progressive activists urged a campaign to win back the populists from right-wing ideology. Conservative icon Pat Buchanan, wrote the Scott victory meant that Republicans should target the white vote by vowing an “end to affirmative action and ethnic preferences, an end to bailouts of Wa…

Thank You Breitbart, For The Islam

By Haroon Moghul

…nd describe the dissension that appears to be tearing the Republican Party apart, between “establishment conservatives” and younger, more radical voices. But what’s neat about these essays is also that they offer us a window into how the authors see other identities, including my own. There are several mentions of Islam or Muslims in Bokhari and Yiannopoulos’ essay, two of which I quote here because of the deeper meaning revealed by these invocati…

Pope’s ‘Joy of Love’ Brings Little Joy To LGBT Catholics; Gay Atheist Malaysian Granted Refugee Status In Canada; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…f Love’ Inspires Little Joy in LGBT Catholics Pope Francis released a long-awaited Apostolic Exhortation on love and the family, which comes after fierce infighting at two synods at which bishops debated doctrine and pastoral approaches on issues like divorce, remarriage, and homosexuality. In the words of New Ways Ministry’s Francis DeBernardo, the document offers “some hope but not much joy” for LGBT Catholics. On other family topics such as div…

“Even the Rich Suffer”: An Interview with Google’s Jolly Good Fellow Chade-Meng Tan

By Max Zahn

…few people who self-identify as Buddhist. Tim Ryan, for example, and Jon Kabat-Zinn—they don’t identify as Buddhist. If you’re white, you see Buddhism with a different perspective from how we see it in Asia. When a white guy sees Buddhism, he thinks it’s cool. He thinks of Buddhists as peaceful people going “Ommmmm.” Growing up, I had a very different experience of Buddhism. I thought it was extremely uncool—you go to a temple and you make an off…

US Offers Help For Investigation of Bangladesh Killings

By Peter Montgomery

…horough investigation into the murder of LGBT activists Xulhaz Mannan and Tanay Mojumdar by a group of men who have been linked to a local branch of al-Qaeda. From the Washington Blade’s Michael Lavers: The murders of Mannan and Mojumdar took place two days after members of the so-called Islamic State claimed responsibility for the hacking death of Rezaul Karim Siddique, a university professor, in the northwestern part of the country. Other secula…

Scott Roeder’s Religion

By Sarah Posner

…by an anti-abortion zealot in 1998, has a new investigative report in Ms. magazine demonstrating how Scott Roeder, who killed Dr. George Tiller at church last year, did not act alone. It’s crucial to read the whole thing, but in a nutshell, through jailhouse interviews and other sources Robb documents how Roeder crossed paths and received help from groups like Army of God (which explicitly supports killing abortion providers) and Operation Rescue,…

Secularist Activists Are Being Murdered in Bangladesh: An Ongoing Crisis Causes Many to Flee

By Michael De Dora

…acked to death on his way to work. LGBT activists hacked to death in their apartment. These reports illustrate a deep human rights crisis in Bangladesh. Since 2013, violent extremists linked to militant Islamist groups have attacked or killed more than one dozen writers, publishers, and activists. The attacks intensified starting in February 2015, when Avijit Roy, author and founder of Bengali freethought website Mukto-Mona, was murdered as he was…

Why We Can’t Afford to “Wait And See” How Trump Dismantles LGBT Rights

By Sunnivie Brydum

…o rating from the Human Rights Campaign, and a measly 21 percent from the NAACP. Aside from making good on the Republican holy grail quest to “repeal and replace Obamacare,” Price could revive an outdated tactic to oppose LGBT equality, as Salon explains. Just three years ago, on a phone call with faith leaders supporting the Tea Party movement, Price agreed that there are “consequences of activity that has been seen as outside the norm,” suggesti…