News & Analysis (7/27/16)

Bill Clinton’s invitation for Muslims to join his cause assumes that they are not American and that many of them do not “hate terror”:

• Bill Clinton Insulted Muslim Americans During his 2016 DNC Speech with this One Sentence (Mic)

Gulen maintains that he is innocent and that the coup is contrary to his dearest principles and of the Hizmet movement:

• Fetullah Gulen: I Condemn All Threats to Turkey’s Democracy (New York Times)

“ISIL considers itself Islamic, of course. And yet Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has managed to violate not just the spirit but also the letter of nearly every Islamic prescription”:

• ISIL Violence Against Christians Dishonors Islam’s Earliest History (Quartz)

Two Muslim women tried to join the French military to help protect their country, but had to remove their hijabs to enter the recruitment center. Only one of them complied, so only she enlisted:

• French Army Asks Citizens to Enlist — But No Muslim Headscarves, Please (NPR)

A member of a persecuted minority sect, this Pakistani doctor’s life was threatened on the pretext that for he illegally using medicine purchased with Muslim charitable funds for a Christian, even though he reimbursed the cost:

• I Am a Muslim Doctor. I Saved a Christian in Pakistan and It Nearly Cost Me My Life (Guardian)

Jeta Luboteni