Sightings Articles
Unnatural Acts by Melissa Conroy
On May 4, 2009 the BBC's top stories included the headline "'Gay man' disinterred in Senegal." The article told how a gay man died and was buried in a Muslim cemetery, only to be disinterred twice. In the first instance his body was left outside th...
May 7, 2009
Examining Hateful Words and Images: The Case of Towelhead -- Melissa Conroy
This past August, Warner Bros. studio faced a dilemma over a new film. The film is currently titled Towelhead, an offensive, derogatory term referring to Arabs and Muslims. The Los Angeles office of the Council on American-Islamic relations (CA...
September 11, 2008
Transgenderism and Religious Narratives — Melissa Conroy
National Public Radio recently aired a series on children who suffer from what some psychologists call a gender identity disorder, also known as transgenderism. The children believe they have been born into the wrong biological body. It is not that t...