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Anti-LGBT Culture Warriors On The March; More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…would encourage interaction among the participants ahead of the forum and promote Egypt as a safe tourist destination. Instead, the activists posted images of security forces assaulting and arresting youths at protest sites and shared portraits of jailed journalists, activists and others who have allegedly been tortured or forcibly disappeared. … Hours after it was launched, the hashtag became the top trending topic on Twitter in Egypt, unleashin…

First They Came for the Brotherhood . . . Egyptian Gov Seeks to Criminalize NGOs

By Austin Dacey

…stry of Social Solidarity threatens the very existence of civil society in Egypt. In the words of a July 9 statement issued by 29 independent civil society organizations—among them, all of the country’s leading human rights groups—the proposed law “will criminalize the operation of NGOs and subordinate them to the security establishment, shutting down the public sphere in Egypt to all but regime supporters.” This development supports the views of…

A How-To Guide for Keeping Up With the Events in #Egypt

By Haroon Moghul

…of some of the best voices and thinkers on the situation on the ground in Egypt. I don’t endorse all their views and opinions, of course, but I believe they are nuanced, interesting, intriguing, provocative or deeply insightful persons, whether on the ground or reporting from farther away. In no particular order: @Arabist @HSMoghul (hell why not?) @BelTrew @MaxBlumenthal @RawyaRageh @AymanM @SherineT @ddknyt @shadihamid @hahellyer @Max_Fis…

Shari‘ah in Egypt? Intervention in Libya?

By The Editors

…In the audio clip from State of Belief above Haroon Moghul, RD contributor and Executive Director of The Maydan Institute, discusses fears over the use of shari’ah in Egypt (they’ve been using it all along and have remained secular), and how US intervention may be playing in Libya. …

Muslim Brotherhood: Protect Churches; Mufti Exempts Egyptians from Friday Prayer

By H.A. Hellyer

…n. Over the past week, others have mentioned a Qatari conspiracy to defame Egypt, along with foreign elements to destabilise Egypt. Others insisted that all this upheaval was the fault of external actors, not domestic ones—and those who appeared to be domestic were simply stooges of outside forces. No one knows anything anymore. The Friday congregational prayer is one of those canonical observances for all Muslim men resident in a locality. Muslim…

LGBT Rights in the New Egypt

By Hussein Rashid

…interview on The Gist on what the Egyptian Freedom Movement means for LGBT Egyptians. She talked about the use of debauchery laws to misdirect people away from the malfeasance of the state, typified by the Queen Boat trials. She also correctly notes that Arab culture is infused with homoerotic imagery and actions. A scholar like Khaled El-Rouayheb argues that what we now call homosexuality was much more accepted in the pre-modern Islamic period. A…

Egypt in Pictures: Not an Islamist in Sight

By Hussein Rashid

…n and women praying side-by-side, definitely not in any definition of Islamist government. In other words, the people are ahead of the state and the religious opposition. Second, the nominal head of the opposition now is Mohamed ElBaradei, former head of the IAEA. When he returned to Egypt to lead the opposition to Mubarak, photos were leaked of his daughter in a swimsuit. The speculation was that the Mubarak regime was trying to drive a wedge bet…

The Intellectual Source Code For National Conservatism Can Be Found at This Niche Catholic Publication

By Peter Schwartz

…cultural conservatism in the United States. The foundation of this source code (the motherlode of the code, as it were) is Catholic natural law moral philosophy. Natural law is the 800-year-old Thomist tradition that absorbs (from revelation and scripture) and communicates (into public discourse and legal practice) a quite specific understanding of the human individual as the summit of God’s creation. First Things has hosted some of the most impo…

Confusion Reigns on Cairo Streets

By H.A. Hellyer

…the end of it, Mubarak would retire as the first retired leader of modern Egypt. The rest of the day threw all of that into question. The anti-Mubarak protestors have been set upon, and now, increasingly, there are voices around Egypt making themselves heard against the protestors. I even heard, as I was walking around Cairo’s streets, people essentially blaming the violence in Tahrir on the anti-government protestors themselves—not because they…

On Cairo Streets, No Support for Islamist State

By H.A. Hellyer

…he Azhar University and the religious leaders of all in Egypt. But that changed in recent years, and in this protest, the Church came heavily out in favor of Mubarak’s continued rule. In so doing, it made clear that they were in favor of a status quo that the overwhelming majority of Egyptians were seeking to change, including Christian Egyptians. A rather foolish decision: a dignified silence might have been more appropriate. At some point, there…