News and Analysis (7/27/14)

EID MUBARAK!

Warned by a coward hiding behind the handle “Abu Hafs” to “stop hindering men from Allah’s path,” the founder of the Islamic Friendship Association replies, “it is people like this Abu Hafs who are ‘hindering men from Allah’s path’”:

• Muslim Leader Threatened for Warning Against Going to Syria and Iraq (The Sydney Morning Herald)

“It’s bringing me back to reality. I’m trying to stay on a straight path” — inmate Derek Cooper:

• Under New Rules, Muslim Inmates in L.A. County Jails Observe Ramadan (LA Times)

Gaza libertarian Omar Shaban says, “Twenty years ago, how to make peace with Israel was a daily topic for the Palestinian people[, but today, in] Israel, politicians and groups compete to see who will be more aggressive towards the Palestinians:

• Opinion: 20 Years on, the Struggle for Gaza Peace Drains me of Hope (CNN)

Israel’s formula in spinning the slaughter of Gazans “can be found in The Israel Project’s 2009 Global Language Dictionary. The Orwellian manual provides a detailed outline on how to ‘communicate effectively in support of Israel’”:

• “The More the Dead, the Better”: Israel’s Crumbling Media War” (Salon)

The man who wants to ban the niqab is the latest example of Muslim (and other) men telling Muslim (and other) women what they can and can’t wear:

• Why Are So Many People Obsessed with Muslim Women’s Wardrobes? (Guardian)

The UN human rights convoy expressed deep concerns over the conditions in camps where “more than 100,000 mostly minority Muslims displaced by violence led by Buddhist extremists”:

• UN Myanmar Envoy Worried Over Displaced Muslims (ABC)

“British Muslims are an extremely enterprising community. They contribute over £31billion to the UK economy every year”, they are role models, extremely tolerant and charitable:

• British Muslims Have British Values (Huffington Post)

If Michelle Bachman thinks she can use Sisi-style tactics to persecute journalists and think tanks that want to report on the Muslim Brotherhood, she better re-read the US Constitution:

• Congress Bill Calls for Designating Muslim Brotherhood as ‘Terrorist Organisation’ (Middle East Monitor)

Danish politican Mogens Camre said that he did not mean that every Muslim is persecuting Jews and that he didn’t have room to explain himself fully in his Tweet, but he still seems to believe that they are “just waiting to kill us”:

• Muslims Should be Treated the Same as Hitler, DFer Says (The Copenhagen Post)

Hanan Hameed