Have Lebanon’s decades-long and now Iraq’s sectarian power-sharing systems come to hamper democracy?:
- An Arab Autumn: The Hidden Political Poison That Iraq And Lebanon Are Really Protesting About (Niqas.org)
Trump is not pulling U.S. troops out from the Mideast, he is just strategically relocating them around the ragion:
- No, Trump isn’t Bringing Troops Home: Not those in Syria, or any of the 60,000 in the Mideast (Juancole.com)
Education is a victim of politics, as Iranian students’ visa application revoked:
A survivor of China’s concentration camps “was forced to watch as other Muslim women were gang-raped by guards; she says that inmates who expressed disgust or outrage were led away and never seen again” …
- Muslim Woman Who Escaped from a Chinese Concentration Camp Describes Gang-Rapes, Torture, Forced Medical Experiments (Boing Boing)
… yet Indonesia’s two largest Muslim groups are still undecided whether China is engaged in human rights abuses or just reasonable measures against separatism:
- Indonesia’s Muslim Groups Not Ready to Speak Out on Uyghurs (Radio Free Asia)
Despite the persecution they face from bigots who mistake them for Muslims, “Sikhs … have consistently refused to throw the Muslim community under the bus by simply distancing themselves from Islam”:
- An American Muslim Imam’s Letter to the American Sikh Community (Religion News Service)
“An initial investigation by the government revealed that … Baddya’s Facebook account had been hacked by Muslim attackers, who then blackmailed the 25-year-old before posting the blasphemous comments”:
Notwithstanding Trump’s professions that Saudis should pay for their own defense, Esper wants to bill NATO for defense of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region:
“Settlement leaders ignore violence by settlers against Palestinians and even policemen, denouncing it only when the people attacked are soldiers”:
- Capitulation to Jewish Settlers Has Enabled Violence Against Soldiers, Defense Officials Say (Haaretz)
“The Palestinian Authority is afraid that the press exposes corruption, which may lead to a popular explosion similar to what is happening in Lebanon’” — Ahmad Zoabar, union representative:
- Palestinians Decry PA Website Ban as ‘Attack’ on Media (Middle East Eye)
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