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The Jersey Shores of Tripoli: MTV and Arab Revolution

By Haroon Moghul

…s of inherent cultural inferiority, was shaken, but not overthrown. During today’s Arab revolutions, we heard elites argue that their populations were not ready for democracy. In other words, while a frequently slave-owning, patriarchal, racially exclusive elite in 18th century America could birth a tremendously vigorous democracy and achieve world power, somehow Arabness and Muslimness is too static, violent, backwards, and irrational to handle a…

The Rise and Fall of an American Gang: Religion as Camouflage?

By Spencer Dew

…th American citizenship—as having the “primary objective” of “connect[ing] African Americans with a proud heritage, thereby circumventing the stereotypical picture of Africa, its inhabitants, and their black American descendants as savage and uncivilized.” This makes the religion, with its embrace of Orientalist imagery and esoteric texts, sound more like the African-centered outreach program for school children author Lance Williams founded, and…

Will bin Laden’s Killing End the Jihadi Trend?

By Christopher Anzalone

…nswer. Non-Arab jihadi groups, and al Qaeda’s regional affiliates in North Africa, Yemen, and Iraq, are also likely to be less affected by bin Laden’s death. In recent years, al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan has become increasingly reliant on the military strength of regional allies such as the Afghan Taliban, the Tehrik-i Taliban Pakistan, and the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. Each of these allies has an independent organizational structure…

Cyber-Colonialism: Anonymous Enters LGBT Fray in Uganda

By Joseph Tolton

…n Uganda, with which I’m affiliated, is in partnership with LGBT groups in Africa and must respect their need to lead the way strategically. We also recognize that the roots of international homophobia are found here in the United States, from our very own brothers and sisters in Christ. Anonymous’ actions, while intended to fight oppression, perpetuate another form of oppression in their paternalistic attitude toward African people and government…

Breaking Up with God: I Didn’t Lose My Faith, I Left It

By Sarah Sentilles

…e best design possible for a mobile AIDS clinic for a town in a country in Africa. He posted the deadline, and he waited. He didn’t think anyone would submit anything, but on the day of the contest’s deadline, a delivery man from Federal Express rang the doorbell to his tiny studio apartment in New York City. He was carrying a huge bag stuffed with envelopes. “Wow,” the founder said. “Are all those mine?” “No,” the delivery person said. He pointed…

The Mormon Moment?

By Joanna Brooks

…h much of the Church’s growth being among US Latinos and in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, tensions between the political and economic interests of the Church’s white, multi-generational American core and its global membership are increasing. Recent political efforts by the LDS Church to support a suite of moderate immigration reform measures in the state of Utah evidence the growing influence of Latino Mormons in the Church. And they point to a…

Ghana Moves to Arrest Gays and Lesbians

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…lesbians in Uganda are not the only ones living in fear for their lives in Africa. According to news reports from Ghana, “the Western Region Minister Paul Evans Aidoo has ordered the immediate arrest of all homosexuals in the region.” The move comes after the Christian Council of Ghana released “a strongly worded message against the practice [of homosexuality] and courting Ghanaians not to vote for any politician who believes in the rights of homo…

Was Ghana Anti-Gay Scare Just Politics?

By Warren Throckmorton

…cently called for the arrest of gays, a Ghanaian government source told RD today that the government was not “clamping down” on sexual minorities. The source, who did not want to be named since he was not speaking officially, said that Ghana is a law abiding country and that those on a crusade should take up the matter in the courts. The issue appears to be a sensitive one for the government. The Ministry of Information and the Office of the Presi…

Bishop Minerva Carcaño Has a Nearly Impossible Job

By Mary E. Hunt

…iscopalians, default to the constricting policies of their partners in the south, for example in Africa. She observed that when denominations yield to those interests on same-sex marriage, they leave local people in places like New York or Iowa, where same-sex marriage is legal, without pastoral resources. Ministry is not simple these days. It was refreshing to hear a bishop with a clear analysis of how social and religious change happens. In…

The New York Times Sunday Review has a Mormon Problem

By Joanna Brooks

…s in the Church’s earliest years. LDS missionary efforts in Hawaii and the South Pacific followed soon after. (Today, between 20 and 30% of the nations of Tonga and Samoa are LDS.) People of Asian, Asian Pacific, Latin American, and indigenous American descent have never been restricted from ordination, a fact Siegel blithely ignores. Church membership in the U.S. is still predominately white, a reflection of the ethnicity of the religion’s founde…