Trump’s capitulation to the Neocon agenda threatens the alliance with Pakistan without offering any meaningful hope for the Afghani people besieged by Taliban warriors and oppressed by a corrupt government:
- Neocons Cheer Trump’s Afghanistan Strategy (The Hill)
- Pakistan Rejects Role of ‘Scapegoat for U.S. Failures’ in Afghanistan (Reuters)
- Afghanistan’s Deeper Challenge (Christian Science Monitor)
In cancelling the divisive demonstrations ACT cited the “divisive climate” which it has itself fostered:
- US’s Largest Anti-Muslim Group Cancels Dozens of Rallies After Seeing Size of Anti-fascist Crowds in Boston (Independent)
“[W]riting for hateful websites, denying the existence of Islamophobia and calling for the violation of fundamental rights and freedoms of a minority community is contrary to everything the [CRRF] stands for”:
“With a few American flags for your house, a CD tutorial on sounding more white, and so much more, this kit ensures that people suspicious of Muslims will know you’re ‘one of the good ones!’”
The court rules that the knife attack by the white man shouting, “Where are all the Muslims? I am going to kill all the Muslims” was not terrorism, but paranoid schizophrenia:
Now that the practice that violates the Qur’an (4:35) is banned by civil law as well, a number of Muslim organizations concede that “triple-talaq”was unIslamic …
- Triple Talaq: Feel Victorious and Protected by SC Verdict, Say Muslim Women (Times of India)
- Triple Talaq Lost Staunchest Support (The Hindu)
… because the “three-stage talaq prescribed by the Shariah that involved counselling, mediation, and the time and space for possible reunion between estranged couples” …
- Muslim Bodies Fear Push for Uniform Civil Code (The Hindu)
… but that practice was just the tip of an iceberg of cultural practices that violate Islamic norms of justice, including outrageous fatwas that force rape victims to divorce actual husbands to marry their rapists:
- In Search of a Muslim Identity between the Two Extremes of Secularism and Religious Law (Huffington Post)
The woman’s father says that the video gives a false impression in showing that his adult daughter forced into his home by court order “continues to live as a Muslim and she was under tremendous pressure”:
- Tamil Nadu: Kin of Woman Who Took to Islam Complains Against Activist (Hindustan Times)
“[T]he arrival of Qatari pilgrims in Saudi Arabia … appears to have exacerbated the tension, with Qatar accusing Saudi Arabia of deliberately making it difficult for its pilgrims to obtain permits to go to Mecca”:
“The Moro Islamic Liberation Front has repeatedly warned that, if the peace process collapses, it will lose many of its younger members to IS-aligned groups”:
- Largest Muslim Rebel Group in Philippines Sounds Alarm on IS (Hindustan Times)
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