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LGBT Activists Challenge Church Anti-Marriage Efforts; Gov’t in Belize Creates Church-State ‘Public Morality’ Commission; Opponents Seek To Stop Finland’s Marriage Equality Law Before It Takes Effect; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ancis to dismiss Carinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, who activists accuse of “promoting hatred” against LGBT people. Other activists Belize: Government will challenge anti-sodomy-law ruling, create ‘public morality’ commission In the aftermath of a recent ruling by the country’s Chief Justice against the sodomy law, the government of Prime Minister Dean Barrow has agreed to set up a “church state commission on public morality” that will consider “how…

Islam=Peace: What’s in a Slogan?

By Brie Loskota

…Shabaab cell launched the organization’s first terrorist attack outside of Somalia. Two blasts were set off, one in front of the screen where the match was being broadcast. Ndugwa and his friends felt the blasts. Injured, but not mortally so, they ran to the nearest hospital. He explained what took place in the aftermath: When I left hospital the following day, I watched the news. The attack had claimed over 80 lives and left 76 injured. Investiga…

Fighting Terrorism Without Drones?

By Michael Schulson

…rcutting the ideological and recruiting appeal of jihadists in places like Somalia, Yemen and Pakistan.” The effort will be called the “Global Fund for Community Engagement and Resistance,” which sounds like the kind of name the U.N. would give to, say, an anti-malaria effort, or a campaign against STIs. But that’s the point. “The initiative,” reports the Times, is “based on other global funds to combat AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis.” So, yes, t…

Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Lurid Picture of Nigeria’s Muslims in Newsweek

By Patrick J. Ryan, S.J.

…ise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington DC. Originally from Somalia, the most dysfunctional state in contemporary Africa, Hirsi Ali is best known in the U.S. for her bestselling 2007 autobiography, Infidel, which received a great deal of praise, and not a small amount of criticism. “Hirsi Ali is more a hero among Islamophobes than Islamic women,” wrote one reviewer at the time. In a recent Newsweek cover story, reprinted in The Dail…

New Report: Muslim Terrorism a ‘Minuscule Threat’

By Hussein Rashid

…ber includes those who committed acts of terrorism overseas in places like Somalia and Yemen. Even if we take the conservative number of 2 million Muslims in the U.S., that means 0.01% of Muslims are involved in terrorism-related activity over the span of a decade. Per annum, it is 0.001%. If we take a more realistic number of 4 million American Muslims, the numbers become 0.005% over a decade, or 0.0005% per year. Last year there were 14,000 homi…

Heaven On Earth: A Non-Hysterical History of Shari’ah

By Haroon Moghul

…ink that Shari’ah has been irreversibly tarnished by this? Countries from Somalia to Pakistan have been ravaged in recent decades by coups, revolutions, and wars. In the ensuing fear and uncertainty, religious scholars have gained considerable influence—perhaps because they seem to offer explanations for the instability, perhaps because of the uniquely reassuring nature of a faith in God. Those scholars have certainly had their supporters, but th…

Cyber-Colonialism: Anonymous Enters LGBT Fray in Uganda

By Joseph Tolton

…base of Botswana’s Export Development and Investment Authority, as well as Somalia’s TV Network and Gurmad company websites, and the Sudanese stock exchange. They’ve threatened to take down key websites in any African country in which LGBT people are subject to imprisonment or death for expressing their sexual orientation or gender identity publicly. Last week, they went a step further and posted a message on the website of Uganda’s Prime Minister…

Trump’s “Muslim Ban” A Gift to Terrorists

By Ali Olomi

…s for citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.” The response to the proposal has been swift; spontaneous protests in support of immigrants and Muslims took place in airports across the nation, advocacy groups (successfully, so far) challenged portions of the order, while public figures like Madeleine Albright vowed to register as a Muslim. The immigration ban on refugees from Muslim-majo…

Irony Watch: Trump’s Travel Ban Violates Religious Freedom Act According to ACLU Lawsuit

By Sunnivie Brydum

…de exceptions for Muslims fleeing sectarian violence in Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, or Yemen. “The executive order violates the Establishment Clause by singling out Muslims for disfavored treatment and granting special preferences to non-Muslims,” the complaint alleges. It also discriminates “between ‘minority religions’ and majority religions, explicitly granting official preference to foreign adherents of minority faiths in the ref…

State Director of Christian Right Legislative Group, ‘Project Blitz,’ Calls for Lynching of Rep. Ilhan Omar (Updated)

By Frederick Clarkson

…from holding public office. Rep. Omar, originally a refugee immigrant from Somalia, is the first woman of color to hold federal elective office from Minnesota and one of the first Muslim women in Congress. The threat against Rep. Omar was particularly ill-considered in that she represents the 5th Congressional District, which includes the city of Minneapolis, the epicenter of the protests arising from the death of George Floyd at the hands of the…