News and Analysis (1/23/17)

“We believe in engagement to overcome [differences]…. The verses that Imam Magid chose were about how God created us as different nations and tribes so that we may get to know one another” — ADAMS Center Board Chair:

• Muslim Leader Defends Decision to Pray at Trump Service (WUSA9)

“After promising … that ‘America’s relationship with the Muslim community, the Muslim world, cannot, and will not, just be based on opposition to terrorism,’ Obama did just the opposite. In 2016 alone, the [U.S.] dropped 26,171 bombs”:

• So Much Promise, So Much Disappointment: A Muslim bids farewell to president Obama (Salon)

“Buenaventura’s Muslims say that they have found in Islam a refuge from the poverty and violence that racks the city, which has one of the highest murder rates in Colombia“:

• How Islam Took Root in One of South America’s Most Violent Cities: The Colombian port of Buenaventura is home to a small Muslim community who have successively embraced the Nation of Islam, Sunni and Shia interpretations (Guardian)

“This is the America that took us in as political refugees,the America that gave us a new home, and the America that keeps my hope alive today”:

• Neighbours Leave Touching Note Outside Muslim Man’s Door After Donald Trump’s Inauguration: ‘You are welcome in our neighbourhood and if you need anything – please knock on our door’ (Independent)

“The P.A.’s criminalization of any form of resistance to dispossession, discrimination, and Israel’s permanent military control have made it, in effect, a tool of collaboration with the occupation” …

• Palestine in the Age of Trump (New Yorker)

… while “hawkish elements in [Netanyahu’s] coalition … are already calling for concrete action given Trump’s perceived acquiescence to Israeli settlement building” and to turn against Palestinian statehood:

• Israel Pushes Ahead with Settlements as Trump Takes Office (Christian Science Monitor)

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