Month: June 2017

  • News and Analysis (6/14/17)

    While Iranian women demonstrate for the right to bare their hair … Why Iranian Women Are Wearing White on Wednesdays (BBC) … Norway takes the choice of face veils away from women, offering instead fines for public wear, or expulsion from universities: Norway Plans to Ban Muslim Face Veils in Schools (Independent) With the public…

  • News and Analysis (6/11/17)

    As Trump repeats Saudi lies that Qatar funds terrorism, the Saudis and other Gulf states ignore Tillerson’s pleas to dial back the crisis … Saudi and Bahrain Welcome Trump’s Scolding of Qatar (Reuters) … and Kuwait seeks to mediate … Kuwait Extends Helping Hand to Qatar in Effort to ‘Restore the Normal Relations’ (Christian Science Monitor) ……

  • A Dangerous Moment in U.S. Middle East Relations

    This is an extremely crucial and dangerous moment. If the U.S. follows Trump in siding with Saudi Arabia, we will be effectively supporting ISIS, and potentially creating an ISIS more powerful than any country in the Middle East. Here is why. The Saudi interpretation of Islam is the root source of ISIS’s. ISIS might look…

  • News and Analysis (6/7/17)

    DoE says it is Constitutional for “any public school student” to pray voluntarily “with fellow students during the school day on the same terms that they they may engage in other … speech”: Public School Opens Up Rooms for Muslim Prayer During Ramadan. Atheist Group Calls It ‘Reasonable.’ (The Blaze) ISIS claims responsibility for both…

  • News and Analysis (6/4/17)

    Why do terrorist attacks against white people get twenty times the coverage (and a hundred times the sympathy) of terrorist attacks against brown (and black) people? London Attack: 12 Arrested in Barking After Van and Knife Incidents (BBC) ISIS Attack on Mall in Manila Raises Concerns Militant Siege May Be Spreading (Christian Science Monitor) Afghan…

  • News and Analysis (6/1/17)

    “No American has been killed in a terrorist attack in decades, if ever, by immigrants from the six Muslim countries named in the ban”: Muslim Travel Ban 2.0: Just as Unconstitutional as Version 1.0 (Richmond Times-Dispatch) “Isis had damaged the monastery’s dome, smashed the windows and removed a cross”: Muslim Volunteers Repair Catholic Monastery Because…

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