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Cyber-Colonialism: Anonymous Enters LGBT Fray in Uganda

…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…

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Islam=Peace: What’s in a Slogan?

…anda. He and his friends had gone to the club to watch the World Cup final between Holland and Spain. Then an al-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 ho…

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Dispatches from the Borderlands: “They Came at Night, Trying to Kill Us!”

…e rampaging mobs set upon immigrants from Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Malawi, or Somalia, they would ransack houses, steal meager belongings, and maybe even drag them out into the street to beat them up, stab them and set them on fire—in the very same way that informants were “necklaced,” burned alive, during apartheid. The trouble began in the historic black township of Alexandra, but spread rapidly to other areas of Johannesburg and eventually to Cape…

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Trump’s Muslim Ban and the History of Stolen Citizenship in America

…er fraud or Muslim terrorists) to justify certain actions. These are often promoted under the premise of upholding American values, when in reality they maliciously target the concept of equal citizenship in a democracy. What Trump has done is bring out into the open what had previously been done behind the scenes, or with little fanfare. He is now boasting of disenfranchising those from Muslim-majority countries under the call of being a “law and…

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Trump v LGBT People At the UN; ‘Bible Beer’ Backlash in Australia; Global LGBT Recap

…ve any mention of them from the final report generated at CSW 61. Instead, promote initiatives that support clean water, eradicating hunger and poverty, maternal health and abstinence. OutRight Action International has launched a petition to Nikki Haley, US Ambassador to the UN, calling C-Fam a hate group and urging that the group be removed from the delegation. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, meanwhile, has threatened that the US will withdr…

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It’s Theology, Not Baseball: Misunderstanding Iraq’s Sectarian Conflicts

…es where the rule of law and democratic culture are at best fragile — from Somalia and Yemen to Afghanistan, northern Pakistan, Mali, and the Central African Republic. It is also true that transitions from authoritarian to looser forms of governance are fraught with high political risk, as in ex-Yugoslavia, Egypt, and Iraq. Moreover, most of these radical groups, including the “Islamic State,” have a record of cynical gangsterism, routinely taking…

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The Heresies of Christopher Hitchens

…said may be partly true or even plain true, she would still have been much better advised not to say it. I think she herself may have feared that she was somehow “objectively” helping Ronald Reagan. But whether her mind changed her, or she changed her mind, she manifested the older truth that all riveters of the mind-forged manacles most fear, and that I here repeat: One cannot be just a little bit heretical. By breaking from the stance of complet…

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Youth Violence Among American Muslims: A Perspective

…coast of Africa, or to help al-Shabab, a paramilitary youth group, topple Somalia’s transitional government.) Then there are the recent arrests in Sydney, Australia of Somali youth conspiring to storm an army base and kill soldiers indiscriminately. And this is not just about recent immigrants from third world countries. Reza Taheri-azar, a philosophy and psychology major at the University of North Carolina, and a longtime resident of the United…

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Ignore the Rod: the Parental Rights Amendment Isn’t About Spanking

…paign that he thought it was “embarrassing” that the U.S. stood alone with Somalia in failing to ratify the treaty, and pledged to revisit the issue. Hoekstra has created a Web site, parentsrights.us, to organize support and house his numerous recent media appearances for the bill, which states “The liberty of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children is a fundamental right” no treaty or international law can supersede. Sinc…

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Martyr of the Hijab: Marwa Sherbini, a Walking Veil?

…c, egalitarian Western nation of Germany. This was not a remote village in Somalia, or a Taliban-controlled village in Pakistan, or any random militia-ruled town without paved roads, police, emergency hotlines, elevators and cell-phones. It was a courtroom in Dresden. It was within the very space where justice is delivered. Alex W. saw her as a walking veil which reduced her to a terrorist in his eyes. She was not a walking veil, nor should her su…

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