…out the disparaging book The Satanic Verses, the difference being that the Western author (Salman Rushdie) is still alive under the protection of the British police while the Azerbaijani author in Baku was stabbed and died five days ago in hospital. You are undoubtedly aware that these two individuals are not the only ones who have insulted the Prophet (Peace be upon him), Quran and Islam. There are some who on a daily basis and in different langu…
…by Irish monks, but otherwise the faith as believed by Christians in northwestern Europe was the essentially the same as that promulgated at the Council of Nicaea in 325, the same Christianity as that in Rome. The idea that Celtic Christianity was uniquely different, perhaps even in opposition to Roman Christianity, has an enduring and at times contradictory history. Ironically, one of the earliest instances of the phrase is from George Buchanan,…
…s alike. Some may even suspect the environmental movement of being another Western initiative to impede the progress of Muslim nations. In spite of this, we are beginning to see Muslim community-based organizations in the global North and non-governmental organizations in the global South reviving these deep-rooted green practices in a manner informed both by modern realities and Islamic principles. For example in the United States, the Chicago-ba…
…ther or conceal such conduct. David Hickton, who was U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania from 2010 to 2017, told CNN’s Daniel Burke that this suggests the prosecutors could be planning a racketeering case against Church leaders: “Human trafficking, child pornography, the Mann Act—any of these could be the underlying crimes for RICO.” The leveling of criminal conspiracy charges against members of the Catholic hierarchy would be a…
…Katherine Zappone, made a video for the Marriage Equality campaign that is promoting a referendum coming in May. According to Pink News, she and her partner married in Canada in 2003 but the High Court in Dublin refused in 2006 to recognize her marriage. Uganda: Magazine gives LGBTI Ugandans a voice The Advocate profiles Bombastic, a new magazine “by and for LGBTI Ugandans” and its editor Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera. Reclaiming messaging from anti…
…creasingly diverse lives of Mormons around the globe, even in the Church’s western United States strongholds, where non-traditional and dual-worker households are increasingly the norm rather than the exception. If Mormon men and women work together side by side in their homes, ask Mormon feminists, why should they not work together side by side at church? For advocates of women’s ordination, asking in good faith serious questions about the diver…
…out declining birth rates and a supposed “replacement” of “us” by racially coded “others” that will destroy (white) “Western civilization.” From this twisted perspective, a “feminized man,” one who has “gone soft”—or, in the context of colonialism, “gone native”—is a threat to empire, to “order,” to “civilization itself.” Meanwhile, the “masculinization” of women (or people society insists are “supposed” to be women) is also perceived as a threat,…
…it mean to cover “religion” as a subject versus preaching, practicing, or promoting it? Is “religion” an historical construction, a Western invention? Is belief critical to religion, or is religion something people do? Is religion a vestige of pre-modernity? Is secularity really religion’s opposite? What about the supernatural? These are just a few of the questions that inspire RD’s coverage of religion, and its ongoing deep-dive into the role of…
…climate change, and Covid-19 to mental illness that are “wreaking havoc in Western society.” Just like Campus Reform, he turns to James Lindsay’s anti-woke polemics for support. While Buddhist reactionary centrists seek to naturalize their own conservative political positions as transcendent of ideologies, what we identify as “the Buddhist Right” explicitly embrace their right-wing positions. In response to a “Statement Against Anti-Asian Violence…
…a pack of marginally Mormon polygamists on a murderous rampage across the Western states. Jon Krakauer is not an authority on Mormonism. It’s a pity that Mormon communities are so reticent to speak for ourselves in terms robust enough for the outside world to understand that folks like Krakauer get the job. I have a call in to a friend in Short Creek (the local name for the polygamous communities of Centennial Park, AZ, Colorado City, AZ, and Hil…
