Graeme Wood on ISIS: No Such Thing as Objective Critique
The debate continues to deepen over Graeme Wood’s Atlantic cover story on ISIS: Murtaza Hussain…
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Chatting with Myanmar’s Buddhist “Terrorist”
“Do I look like a terrorist?” the orange-robed monk asked me, confident that I would…
Read MoreIslam is as American as…
In Monday’s New York Times, I wrote a fairly innocuous sentence that was upsetting to some:…
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French Theologian Urges Islam to Self-Critique, Fails to Notice Log in Own Eye
In a piece published in Le Point on January 12th (translated and reprinted in Sightings on January 30th) eminent philosopher-theologian…
Read MorePope Backs Anti-Gay Referendum; Islamic State Executions Include Gay Syrian; ‘Conscience Clause’ Debated in Northern Ireland; Global LGBT Recap
The Boston Globe reported this week that the U.S. State Department will appoint a special…
Read MoreLGBTs in Philippines Reflect on Papal Visit; Francis Meets Trans Man Shunned by Parish; French Group Turns ‘Bar of Sodom’ into ‘Pub of Mercy’; Global LGBT Recap
International Holocaust Remembrance Day was observed around the world this week. While America’s globetrotting anti-gay religious…
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To Get Hebdo Cartoons You Must Get Laïcité
Laïcité is not equivalent to the American notion of “secularism.”
Read MoreGambian Prez Rails Against Gay ‘Evil Empire’; Irish Priest Comes Out During Mass; Trans Talk on Tunisian TV Sparks Debate; Global LGBT Recap
This week the Human Rights Campaign released its list of countries to watch in 2015,…
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Religion Was Not the Reason for the Paris Attacks
Can religious ideology really be blamed for the massacre at Charlie Hebdo? Responding to the New Yorker’s George Packer and others.
Read MoreAnti-Gay Forces On Offense in Europe; ‘African Islam’ Challenged by Extremists; Irish Marriage Foes & ‘Sounds of Sodomy’; Global LGBT Recap
In our precap of global LGBT stories we expect to follow in 2015, we discussed…
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