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Taqwacore Roundtable: On Punks, the Media, and the Meaning of “Muslim”

By Shahjehan Khan

…ly] the same story has been circulating for a while, and it is up to us to change it now, to be responsible with this media attention. I think that the next year will be the true test of what TQ is really all about (if anything more than a group of friends). One would hope that more bands are started, I think we would all agree on that. HR: There seems to be a long history of immigrant South Asians writing resistive poetry in the US and England. A…

The Islamists vs. The Markets: Egypt’s Election Analyzed

By Haroon Moghul

…may be more religiously conservative, they will not necessarily be able to change the very structure of government. Egypt, like Tunisia, seems to have developed a consensus around “civil” governance—not military rule, not Islamist, and not explicitly secularist. Moreover, there are of course a number of practical reasons the Islamist parties may have done so well: they are well-organized, they have great social service and charity programs, and th…

Gen X, Gadgets, and God

By Elizabeth Drescher

…resources. So, it is not digital tools and toys at the center of cultural change to which religious leaders are attempting to respond, but the nature of spiritual authority itself as it is rapidly evacuated from the upper registers of traditional religious and other social hierarchies. In this light, an MP3 player loaded with the pastor’s kid-friendly sermons, jiggy religious music, or bible stories punched up for 21st-century hipness doesn’t add…

Pat Robertson’s Women Warriors Leading Spiritual Warfare In Zimbabwe

By Sarah Posner

…cials from both Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change Party and Mugabe’s Zanu Party, and the formation of the African Centre for Law and Justice. “God brought it full circle,” said Bourland—meaning that Madava’s gift had triggered a series of events, orchestrated by God, that led to an effort to help his native Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwe outpost of the ACLJ isn’t Robertson’s first foray into Africa. Earlier this year, prose…

Gay, Black, and Muslim: “Naz & Maalik” Challenges Easy Assumptions About Progress

By Zannah Kimbrel

…scrimination that they face from outside of their community. As Naz notes, change is not the same thing as progress. Naz: “You think the world’s getting better?” Maalik: “Yeah.” Naz: “Mmm. I don’t think so. Change gets too much credit. They confuse it with progress. They don’t even realize the truth” Lesbians and gays in the US have made great strides toward equality, but that does not mean that progress has been achieved for all—especially if thi…

Mitt Romney’s Honesty Problem

By Joanna Brooks

…n matters political, and that when confronted with questions about his own changes in position, rather than indulge in a candid (and humanizing) bit of public self-examination, the candidate will instead attempt to command assent by assertion of his rightness, with a force that can spill over into unpleasantness. Democratic operatives are trying to brand this as an “honesty” issue, just as Romney’s Republican opponents did in 2007. And characteriz…

You Gotta Have Heart: A Response to Critics of “Why I’m Not an Organ Donor”

By Kristel Clayville

…inds of support. This kind of work is an uphill battle. I don’t anticipate changes any time soon. But isn’t it the case that not being a donor just makes the organ scarcity worse? Maybe. But almost all aspects of the economy run on scarcity, either real or imagined. Since I interpret the organ donation system as an economy, I assume that even a lack of real scarcity will lead to the creation of imagined scarcity. Does anyone really think that when…

In Trump Era, Young Muslims Question Respectability Politics of Mosques

By Hebah H. Farrag

…ross-section of issues—from surveillance and immigration reform to climate change and criminal justice reform. Yet at the start of the Trump presidency, the majority of Muslims in the U.S. continue to interpret “Muslim issues” narrowly, from a security and First Amendment perspective. This narrow focus is increasingly frustrating to younger American Muslims whose participation in Muslim life is evolving in creative ways. Specifically, many assumed…

Global Anti-Gay Forces Plot Against ‘Satanic’ Equality Movement

By Peter Montgomery

…ted against the motion, which was passed by the lower house last year. The change in the law will not affect registrars already doing the job but councils will be able to move them to other functions. Gay rights lobby group COC welcomed the change in the legislation which, it said, ‘ends discrimination on the happiest day of your life”. South Africa: Chief Justice Says His Anti-Gay Religious Views Do Not Trump Constitution Chief Justice Mogoeng Mo…

Religious Right Split on Arizona Immigration Law

By Sarah Posner

…eral government fails in its duty to stop illegal immigration is to either change the Constitution to allow the states to do the job or change the federal elected officials and replace them with those who will do the job. This is truly notable not only because Staver splits with Sekulow, but because he splits with the premise of tea party support for SB 1070: that the federal government is inept, and the states therefore have to defend themselves…