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Uganda’s Anti-Gay Bill Reintroduced in Parliament Today

By Peter Montgomery

…nfamous kill-the-gays bill has been reintroduced in Parliament. The bill stalled last year in the face of international pressure, including condemnation from the U.S. State Department, but its backers have never given up. The legislation and the violent anti-gay rhetoric promoted by its supporters have been part of a wave of anti-gay campaigns in Africa backed by American anti-gay evangelicals. That campaign has had deadly consequences: just over…

‘Barbaric’ v ‘Progressive’ Islam; Catholic Church Objects to Mexican Court OK For Gay Adoption; Malaysian Court Weighs Boundaries Of Civil and Shariah Law; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…bo praised the Obama administration’s “very beneficial” diplomatic efforts promoting LGBT human rights and slammed American evangelicals who continue to promote anti-gay attitudes and policies. The U.S. last summer cut aid to Uganda and imposed a travel ban against officials in the African country who are responsible for anti-LGBT and other human rights abuses. The Center for Constitutional Rights in 2012 filed a federal lawsuit against Scott Live…

The Washington Post’s New Religious Right Now Blogger

By Sarah Posner

…lity and abortion. In Zimbabwe, Sekulow played a key role in launching the African Centre for Law and Justice: Together with the Evangelical Fellowship of Zimbabwe, the African Centre for Law and Justice is working to garner the support of religious leaders and activists for constitutional provisions that would “affirm that Zimbabwe is a predominantly Christian nation founded on biblical principles,” and require application of “the Laws of God in…

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…

Claude, Adieu: A Farewell to Lévi-Strauss

By Louis A. Ruprecht

…cially mindful of the postwar dilemma posed by French imperialism in North Africa. He, like so many French intellectuals of the day, was consumed with the question of Algeria. But because Lévi-Strauss was an anthropologist, his interests in politics were inflected by his lifelong interest in religion. For him, the question of Algeria was also inescapably a question of Islam. “Islam,” he professes in mantic fashion, “is the West of the East.” And t…

Fear of a New Jewishness

By Jacob S. Dorman

…ubsequently the great majority of Jewish immigration to the United States, South Africa, and elsewhere, was by no means the only or the normative condition that Jews have known in the course of history. In fact, the models of Judaism and Jewishness developed relatively recently in Eastern Europe—the object of much shtetl nostalgia among American Jews—may have shaped Ashkenazi Jewishness to be far more insular, and far more pale, than was the histo…

Mini-Review of A Jihad for Love

By Kate Childs Graham

…ranian men who have fled to Turkey to seek refugee status, a gay imam from South Africa, and a lesbian couple from Turkey. Sharma’s representation of the lives of those filmed is as poignant as it is moving. Rather than attack Islam, as many would have done, he delves into what it means to be Muslim in each of his subjects’ lives. In a question and answer session with Sharma following a recent screening of the film in Washington DC, he stated that…

Noah’s All-White Ark, and Other Odd Directorial Choices

By Wil Gafney

…portrayed virtually everyone in biblical Israel, the intersection between Africa and Asia, as white. (Some even had Scottish accents. The thuggish, dreadlocked Samson was a notable, race-baiting, exception. I blogged about that series here.) This matters because the Noah story has particular implications in the justifications of the North Atlantic slave trade. Race and racism are historically interwoven with the biblical text and its interpretati…

A Queer New Year

By Peter Montgomery

…le, American religious right groups will continue to back anti-gay laws in Africa and around the world. False Witness It is an entirely safe bet that anti-gay religious leaders will continue to misrepresent the much-maligned Regnerus study, as the National Organization for Marriage did in one of its year-end fundraisers. It’s likely we’ll be hearing NOM and its allies continue to claim that the Regnerus study supports their anti-marriage equality…

British Culture Wars: An American Import, By Way Of Globalized Theopolitics

By Sarah Posner

…the signatories, no doubt influenced by American evangelicalism brought to Africa and elsewhere, are themselves immigrants to Britain, or at least pastor a community of immigrants.) But like the Manhattan Declaration, the orientation of the Westminster Declaration is framed around the persecution of Christians by (in the case of the Manhattan Declaration) secular society and (in the case of the Westminster Declaration) secular society and Islam. T…