News and Analysis 1/5/23

Sweden’s “progressive” child protection service has taken Muslim children away from their parents on mere suspicion of potential physical abuse and turned them over to sexual abusers:

• Sweden: Experts, Families Say Sweden’s Social System Mistreats Muslim Children (Muslim News)

MPAC declares its opposition to ” the ideology of compulsion in general” stems “not from a political or partisan perspective but from a deeply held sense of moral and religious obligation flowing from our Islamic faith and sincere commitment to God”:

• Islamic Declaration Against Religious Police (Muslim Public Affairs Council)

The convicted terrorist’s plan to go to al-Aqsa raises concerns not only among Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, the UN, and a former Israeli PM, but even in the U.S. government:

• Criticizing or Whitewashing Israel: Netanyahu’s New Government Accentuates West’s Hypocrisy (Palestine Chronicle)
• UNSC to Discuss Troublemaker Israel Minister’s Visit to Palestine’s Al Aqsa (TRT World)
• Israel’s Ben-Gvir Storms Al-Aqsa in ‘Unprecedented Provocation’ (Middle East Eye)
• As Israeli Gov’t Takes ‘Bold’ Extremist Steps, Some in U.S. Call for Sanctions (Mondoweiss)

A “stateless Palestinian who was held … in Juneau, Wis., … for overstaying his visa … says Christians were allowed to participate in unsupervised group prayer”:

• Lawsuit: Muslim Prayer Rights Denied in Wisconsin Jail (UPI)

A young woman held up with the Qur’anic commandment to all Mulsims, male and female, Iqra, which means Read!. Rather than take the advice, the Taliban took away her placard:

• Why Is Taliban’s War on Women a War Against Islam? (India Today)

Israel continues its rampage of detentions, demolitions, expulsions, and the murder of children:

• Israel Detains Palestinian Mayor in Occupied Hebron (Middle East Monitor)
• Israel Demolishes Parts of Masafer Yatta Villages, Residents Prepare for Expulsion (New Arab)
• Israeli Forces Shoot Dead Palestinian Child in Nablus (Wafa)

“France’s Foreign Minister … dismissed the outrage and said Iran ‘practices violence against its own population’ and, unlike France, doesn’t have freedom of the press”:

• Iran Slams France and Shuts Down Cultural Center Over Charlie Hebdo’s Khamenei Cartoons (Bloomberg)

She “won a special election … after a hard-fought campaign scarred by Islamophobic attacks. She will represent the First Ward … [of a Minnesota] city of about 71,000”:

• First Woman of Color and First Muslim Begins Blaine City Council Term (Star-Tribune)

“If I hadn’t had the research background I have, … I would be afraid of basically all Muslim leaders in Sweden” —  Emin Poljarevic, associate professor of sociology of religion:

• Sweden Banning Islamic Schools: Closing Islamic Schools Is Political Decision with Anti-Islamic Motives, Says Swedish politician (Andalu Agency)

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