SIS invited a dangerous intervention of state authority into religious questions by asking the High Court to rule on the merit of a wrong-headed fatwa (nonbinding opinion) declaring “liberalism and pluralism” unIslamic:
- High Court Says Can’t Hear SIS Challenge Against ‘Deviant’ Fatwa, Directs Group to Shariah Courts (Malay Mail)
- A Dark Day for Malaysia — Sisters in Islam (Malay Mail)
The Palestinian student protests, “I shouldn’t be held responsible for what others post,” after an unwarranted search of his smart phone revealed he has acquaintances who oppose U.S. policy …
- Incoming Harvard Freshman Deported After Visa Revoked (Harvard Crimson)
… while Israel raids even “areas under the full control of the Palestinian Authority … with no need for a search warrant, whenever and wherever the military chooses … with … sweeping arbitrary powers” …
“[T]he parliamentary bloc controlled by the PMF leadership, today called U.S. forces … [in the] fight against ISIS, to leave Iraq, [as] …it considered the [Israeli] drone attack a declaration of war on Iraq and its people” …
- Drone Strike Thrusts Iraq into Iranian-Israeli Military Confrontation (Middle East Institute)
… while in Israel there are “suspicions that the prime minister’s political interests were behind the operation:
The judgment requires “authorities to introduce the options “unmarried, widower or divorced” for [both the bride and] the groom on the certificate” to respect gender equity in the right to privacy:
The two Muslim women who created Marvel Comics’ Kamala Khan “gave the character’s experiences and struggles a raw honesty [t]hat will continue with the screen … series’ writer and showrunner” Bisha Ali:
“Suleiman has received $150,000 in donations. Now he’s using the money to pay the bail for ten detainees who have children. … Many, but not all contributors are Muslim”:
China parades “students” who say they are “grateful” for their incarceration. “‘If not for the [Chinese] government, I would someday become a terrorist,’ said one detainee while wiping tears from his eyes”:
“Prominent Muslim scholars have released a whitepaper certifying that Ethereum’s native cryptocurrency, ether, is, in fact, Shari’ah compliant” unless used for haram purposes:
There are hawks at other think tanks, but none “has made an institutional specialty of recommending hard-line Iran policies and offering detailed proposals for how to implement them the way the FDD has done”:
- Iran’s Enemy du Jour: A Guy Who Runs a Think Tank (The Atlantic)
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