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Why Atheists Should Fight For Establishment of State Religion

By Shanny Luft

…: they have more preachers; they have more active preachers, and they have cheaper preachers than can be found in any part of Europe.” What explained European Christianity’s weakness to compete? The answer, de Tocqueville reasoned, was that “the church cannot share the temporal power of the state without being the object of a portion of that animosity which the latter excites.” In other words, when religion and government become entangled, the pub…

Female Breadwinners=Death of Civilization, Says Fox Panel

By Melissa Weininger

…the lie to conservative handwringing over women’s work. In the traditional European Jewish society of the 19th century, family life and gender roles were governed largely by principles laid out in a series of verses from Proverbs, known as the Eshes Chayil, or Woman of Valor, typically sung to women by their husbands during the Friday night Sabbath dinner. The song begins, “What a rare find is a capable wife!/Her worth is far beyond that of rubies…

A Tiny Little Mecca for
the West

By Haroon Moghul

…ded by tourists from all over the world, apparently arriving in increasing numbers. It’s possible that, with European Union membership, all three “constituent people” would be too small to indulge their anxieties. The idea of civilizations colliding is less genuine than cultures overlapping, opposing flags rightly transformed to markers of reference, not destinations or prohibitions. An historic openness could be rediscovered, for its outlines sti…

Global LGBT Recap: Homogeopolitics; Dalai Lama Says Gay is OK; Pope Says Civil Unions May Be

By Peter Montgomery

…raditional values” internationally, in opposition to the pro-LGBT equality European Union. On the other hand, he said many LGBT activists had to be discreet in their involvement in Ukrainian protests, because of the involvement of right-wing anti-gay groups. In another story, Feder reports on a rise in anti-gay sentiment spreading from Uganda into neighboring Kenya, where homosexuality is technically illegal but where people have not generally fac…

“1913: Seeds of Conflict”: New Doc Explores Little-Known History of Palestine

By Shaul Magid

…ostly Sephardic Jews who lived in Palestine before the second large Jewish European immigration (known as the Second Aliyah) in 1904-1914 were suspicious of these European Jews with their “Zionist” ideas who did not want to integrate into the empire. Zionists, and also Palestinian Arabs, began to see the 1908 revolution as an opportunity to distance themselves from the empire altogether. As an illustration of this we meet an important figure, Albe…

Pope Mum on LGBTs in Uganda; Church Defends Anti-Marriage-Equality Efforts in Australia; Cyprus Passes Civil Partnerships; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ed by the current government in May 2015. This was closely followed by the European Court of Human Rights’ unambiguous judgment in Oliari vs Italy, which stated that Italy’s failure to provide any form of legal recognition for same-sex couples violated Article 8 of the European Convention of Human Rights. The LGBTI community, including well-known activist Alecos Modinos, had hoped that Cypriot parliamentarians would pass the Civil Partnership Bill…

Global LGBT Recap: Francis’s First Year; Homophobia and Development; African Activists Push Back

By Peter Montgomery

…rs as not practical in relation to people’s day-to-day struggles, being at best an unrealistic ideal. There appears to be a ‘theory-practice’ gap,” he said. While clearly there was among the respondents “hesitancy, uneasiness and opposition” to same-sex marriage, “many felt that there should be some way of civilly recognizing stable same-sex unions,” he said. Global: World Bank on Homophobia as Challenge to Development This week a two-hour briefin…

Answering the Top 5 Questions About ISIS

By Haroon Moghul

…cculturation. Islam spread in Europe the exact same ways. While, yes, some European Muslims are refugees, and some are recent immigrants, many more are indigenous, and have been Muslim for longer than many Protestants have been Protestant. If one belongs, why doesn’t the other belong? Why does it matter how long you’ve been in a place for what rights you have as a person? When we give in to fear-mongering, we forget a simple fact: The most recent…

Clashing human rights visions for LGBTs at United Nations; More Mixed Messages from the Vatican as Family Synod Begins; Timeline of Worsening Homophobia by Turkey’s AKP Party; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…egarding recommendations from the Council of Europe and decisions from the European Court of Human Rights. “I still can’t believe that this has happened” says Lalka Podobińska, Trans-Fuzja’s Vice-President. “I wanted to believe that since Mr. Duda’s presidential campaign claimed he was supposed to be ‘the President of all Poles’, he would ultimately understand that this Act does not harm the majority, but rather helps a small minority, which defin…

25 Things You Can Blame Muslims For

By Haroon Moghul

…Arabic numbers are called ‘Indian numbers,’ and why, in the West, ‘Indian numbers’ are called ‘Arabic numbers.’ In India they’re just known as numbers. No matter what they’re called, I think we can all agree they make life a lot easier. 2. Coffee Muslims invented coffee, and coffee is a good thing, and no good thing ever dies. At best it goes cold. In fact, one of the reasons coffee took off is because religious Muslims preferred the beverage for…