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U.S. Religious Right Groups Support Move Toward ‘Illiberalism’ of Hungary and Poland; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…Long report in-depth on the “moral panic” that has led to at least 57 arrests: Most of the detainees are held incommunicado, but one, Sara Hegazi, told her lawyer that guards goaded other inmates to beat her in her cell. On October 1, Egypt’s dreaded secret police force, with its long record of disappearances and torture, got involved, arresting at least two more accused flag-wavers. Egyptians have a term that’s sometimes used for disappearing in…

Where are the Clergy? A Report from Occupy DC

By Sarah Posner

…60s in how they frame and address economic issues, yet have abandoned protest strategies in favor of the model of maintaining a Washington office whose purpose is to lobby members of Congress. Other religious activists are too focused on “events-oriented things” like staged arrests, “where they’ve pre-negotiated the thing, which is not to me civil disobedience.” At the same time, national religious political organizations “paternalistically” decid…

Terror In South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…Emanuel, like other black churches, has been the target of violence, not just last night, but throughout its history. In an excellent essay at TPM, Benjamin Park writes about how black churches have long “served as a flashpoint for hatred from those who fear black solidarity, and as a result these edifices have been the location for many of our nation’s most egregious racial terrorist acts.” In 1822, one of Emanuel’s founders, Denmark Vesey, was o…

Obama’s Muslim Strategy 2.0

By Haroon Moghul

…tutions. What happens when non-state networks bang their heads against the statist ceilings above them? Who, in that contest, will we choose? Will we make like Dick Cheney and shoot our friends in the face? We can work with the governments of the few or work responsibly and prudently towards enabling governments of the many. There is as yet not enough evidence of this; the network-building proceeds apace, but often avoids facing up to difficult p…

How (and Why) A Determined Sit-In Worked

By Daniel Schultz

…ctly in the trash. They pay more attention to phone calls and letters, but street protests don’t bother them at all, unless they’re on cable news, which they almost never are. Hashtags? Changing your Twitter avatar? Forget about it. Popular protest does play a supporting role in getting us to a point where something like the Congressional sit-in works. So do the organizations—including the religious groups—who sponsor it. There has to be an entire…

Lessons Learned this Ramadan

By Amina Wadud

…myself for one of the tarawih. I finally finished the Qur’an reading I had started last year and decided that now I’m at the point where it will take two years to read through. To be merciful with our aging is like Allah’s mercy with those parents: it’s a part of the Divine nature and I am grateful. Finally, and of course unique for this year, I learned that it is possible to blog your way through Ramadan, sharing many ideas along the way, and yet…

“God Created You”: Bishop Supports Gay Ugandans, Defies Death Threats

By Jocelyn Edwards

…ountry, Senyonjo was expelled from the Church of Uganda in 2001 when he first started working with gays and lesbians. In October of last year, the bishop’s picture appeared with Kato’s on the front cover of the local tabloid that many in the LGBT community believe stirred up hatred and led to the activist being bludgeoned to death in his own home. Above their photos in the newspaper, the Rolling Stone, was a headline that amounted to a death threa…

Book Bannings Are Bad Enough, But Where Those Involved Are Considered Demonic, the Stakes Could Get Much Higher

By Frederick Clarkson

…? The tour is exclusively sponsored by the Charisma Media empire of NAR Apostle Steven Strang. This is no small thing since the founding convener of NAR, the late Apostle C. Peter Wagner, was a fan of the 15th century Italian Dominican friar, Girolamo Savonarola, who staged what came to be known as the “bonfire of the vanities.” Wagner wrote in his 2008 book Dominion! How Kingdom Action Can Change the World, that “after Savonarola prayed and proph…

Escape From Manhattan: Tech, Tragedy and Storytelling in Sandy’s Wake

By Rachel Wagner

…o didn’t care that Draco was a “bad guy,” since as an actor he served as a star-studded portal of imaginative entry into the transmedia world of the films and books. It was Tom they wanted to see, not Draco, because Tom lived behind the screen, and thus could immediately generate the desire for fans’ escape to Hogwarts from their mediocre lives. Donning Hogwarts scarves and black robes, clutching forty-dollar scraps of paper just signed by Tom, th…

Safety Not Guaranteed

By Jeanne Carstensen

…upshot is that the three flood zones intersect exactly where we live at East 10th Street and Avenue B. A part of me knew it was absurd to pin my sense of security to a digital map. First of all, I didn’t want to be looking at it in the first place. If we had lived on higher ground it would have been moot and I would not have made a religion out of understanding the distinctions between zones A, B, and C. But I was only staying in the East Vill…