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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…
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News and Analysis 1/3/23
The increasingly flagrant nature of Israeli racism may have no immediate effect on U.S. government policy, but its effect on the American Jewish community is visible in an open battle over free speech: Will Netanyahu and His Extremist Ministers Undermine Unquestioned U.S. Support? (WRMEA) The Growing “Battle” Inside U.S. Jewish Institutions As Israel Embraces Racist…
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The Passing of Ali Memon
Former Minaret of Freedom Institute’s board member Ali Memon passed away yesterday, leaving behind his wife Razia and two sons Kamran and Nauman. Today, I joined them and other members of his family and many friends at his burial where we prayed for him and put the earth over his grave. Ali is remembered by…
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News and Analysis 12/30/22
Calling an an art history class display of a historical Muslim image of Muhammad (pbuh) Islamophobic “has privileged a most extreme and conservative Muslim point of view. . [and] flattened the rich history and diversity of Islamic thought”: Most of All I Am Offended as a Muslim (Chronicle of Higher Education) As Israeli oppression continues…
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News and Analysis 12/28/22
Blaming “Western countries, Israel and Saudi Arabia of fomenting the unrest,” and “arrests of dozens of dual nationals, … [aims] to shift blame away from the Iranian leadership”: Iran Reroutes Plane Carrying Soccer Star’s Wife, Blames UK over Unrest (Reuters) Initially in opposition to the Soviet Union, now of Russia and China, and always in…
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News and Analysis 12/25/22
Muslims look at Christmas in America … Eboo Patel: A Muslim Family Celebrates Christmas (Chicago Tribune) … and in the land of Jesus’s (pbuh) birth: Unholy Days and Nights in Bethlehem (Israel-Palestine News) Caution Overshadows Christmas Celebration in Bethlehem as Palestinians Brace for a Radical-right Israeli Government (Arab News) Occupation: On Christmas, Israel Denies Palestinian…
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News and Analysis 12/22/22
“‘You can’t stop the truth,’ said Nafar, speaking after the concert which Israeli police failed to shut down” … Israeli Police Try to Cancel Palestinian Rapper Tamer Nafar Concert Mid-show… and Fail (New Arab) … but in Germany a “new report by ministers and senators seeks to lay the legal basis for outlawing Palestinian groups,…
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News and Analysis 12/19/22
“[D]uring a time of especially heavy Israeli state violence” one rights group reported 700 instances of censorship and another “that nearly half of the Palestinian-themed content that disappeared off of Instagram” … Social Media’s History of Suppressing Palestine Content (Israel-Palestine News) … so Musk’s selection of Bari “Weiss as one of the journalists to break…
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News and Analysis 12/17/22
One victim charges “that the Israeli ban was unjustified since most Christians in Gaza do not have any political or factional affiliation”: Israel Blocks Gaza’s Christians from Celebrating Christmas in Bethlehem (Al-Monitor) As the Israeli violence continues to mount… Israeli Soldiers Injure Dozens of Palestinians, One Seriously, in West Bank (IMEMC) Army Abducts Ten Palestinians,…
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News and Analysis 12/15/22
The World Cup demonstrates that ordinary Arabs do not share their despotic rulers’ desire for normalization: De-Normalizing Israeli Normalization at the World Cup (Jewish Currents) Pro-Israel Group Complains to FIFA About Morocco Waiving Palestine Flag (Middle East Monitor) “The United States introduced the resolution, which” passed 29-8, with 16 abstentions: Iran Removed from UN Commission…
