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New Report Breaks Silence on Faith-Based Orgs

By Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado

…n and Treatment,” tackles this question and others on the eve of the XVIII International AIDS conference in Vienna. Faith-based organizations receive a significant amount of public funding, and while acknowledging that these organizations have been at the forefront of AIDS and HIV health care, the report also raises the question of the effectiveness of these groups in light of preventative care (think condoms and abstinence education). The documen…

Glenn Beck Attracts 300,000; Pakistan Floods Impact
17 million

By Joanna Brooks

…ings. So I was thrilled to receive news that the Church has partnered with International Medical Corps, International Relief and Development, and Saba Aslam Welfare and Trust to purchase supplies within Pakistan for redistribution to flood-impacted areas, with additional shipments from the Humanitarian Relief Center in Salt Lake City forthcoming. And I was especially heartened to see the Church teaming with Islamic charities to provide relief, as…

Iftar: Breaking Fast

By Amina Wadud

…special category of Islamic studies academics who are grounded both in the international or global nature of Islam and the history of identity politics in America. All of the madness hits us double. (I think Tariq knows what I’m talking about too, right!?) We are not supposed to be both black and fluent in another language (or two). We are not supposed to think abstractly, live spiritually, and still play in the street. There is a cost not to clai…

The “F” Word: Feminism in Islam

By Amina Wadud

…so began to self-represent. They were always there. But whether or not the international community knew about them, or about their work, was inconsequential. Or so they thought. Both/And So in the void, the story of the Muslim woman went from Muslim male and non-Muslim female spokespersons to anti-Islam Muslim spokeswomen. Finally we get to the women who straddled the divide between living Islam and living in the world today, so they challenge Isl…

Election Update: Oklahoma Bans Shari’ah Law

By Haroon Moghul

It’s called Measure 755. For Oklahoma, it forbids the use of international and Shari’ah law in state courts. As of the time of writing, it has passed, winning nearly 70% of the vote. As an American Muslim, and a citizen of New York, I am amused, concerned, fascinated and, oddly, given hope. Let me go in that order. Shari’ah is, for Muslims, the “path to the water”; the texts that normatively define a moral life and the means to God and heaven in…

Bush’s New Book: “Damn Right I OK’d Torture”

By Sarah Sentilles

…the American people: Will we hold accountable those who violated U.S. and international law? Torture is immoral, ineffective, and counter-productive. U.S. sponsored torture has not “saved lives”; it has cost lives and inspired acts of terror against the U.S. and its allies. It is time—well past time—to establish a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the use of torture by the US and hold those who authorized the use of torture accountable. Tortur…

Global LGBT Recap: “Lavender Fascism,” Rage in India, Pope Francis Ousts Culture Warrior

By Peter Montgomery

Last week we inaugurated a regular feature recapping international highlights and lowlights in religion and LGBT advocacy. This week Russia and India are still in the news, along with Australia, Zambia, Ethiopia, the U.K. , and more. This week’s stories include more evidence that American LGBT rights advocates working overseas are finding their work made harder by anti-gay American religious activists encouraging other countries to resist moves t…

Who Could Possibly Take Issue With ‘Human Dignity’? Beware of Trojan Horses

By Peter Schwartz

…ious conservatives. Dignity is a term also especially prevalent within the international LBGTQ rights community, an indication of its protean hold upon the moral imagination. And, in a recent column, Jamelle Bouie, writing with incandescent clarity, emphasizes the centrality of human dignity to the democratic vision of Frederick Douglass. However its ubiquity within the Catechism of the Catholic Church and in Humanae Dignitatis, the 1965 papal enc…

UPDATE: An Abrupt End to Quebec Separatist Plan to Ban “Ostentatious Signs” of Religion

By Jeremy Stolow

…sted that the bill was crafted to avoid ruffling the feathers of the large numbers of practicing Christians currently working in Quebec’s public sector—a less than insignificant number of which do happen to wear (typically small) crucifixes—and thus the visual code aimed its sights more narrowly on undesirable religious minorities, while at the same time allowing the government to proclaim the even-handedness of its approach. But whatever the act…

Mexican Bishops Exorcism Against Equality; African Bishops Oppose ‘Enemy of Human Race’; Israeli Islamic Leader Anti-Gay Op-Ed

By Peter Montgomery

…, “When the Queer Cultural Festival opened on June 9, participants were outnumbered by protestors holding signs with slogans like ‘Stop Same-Sex Marriage’ and ‘Gays Out: Homosexuals have no human rights.’” Israel: Islamic leader stirs outrage with anti-gay op-ed; government rejects anti-discrimination law The deputy head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, Sheikh Kamal Khatib, “launched a scathing attack on homosexuality in an op-ed titled ‘You mak…