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“Pirro doesn’t know the constitution, doesn’t know American history, doesn’t know her own tradition of Catholicism, and doesn’t have the slightest idea about Islam”: America’s Long History of Hysteria about Women’s Veils: Jeanine Pirro and Ilhan Omar (juancole.com) “This is 100 percent the same thing as making children take their test on Christmas or Easter.…

“Lebanese-American businessman George Nader” reported “that [at the] meeting … the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia wanted to aid Trump in his bid for the White House”: Erik Prince Acknowledges Attending 2016 Trump Tower Meeting ‘to Talk About Iran Policy’ (The Hill) Palestinians like  the “15-year-old lay dying … after being shot in the…

As Democrats hastily try to rebalance the wording in their resolution … House Resolution Would Condemn Anti-Semitic and Anti-Muslim Bigotry but Does Not Call Out Omar’s Remarks (CBS News) … we wonder if their hair trigger for the woman who apologized for her insensitive remarks rather than the man unrepentant about defending real anti-Semites is…

“The increased contacts between the evangelical community and the Arab world could certainly contribute to changes in how Arab countries conduct their ties with Israel”: Why Muslim and Arab Countries Are Working So Hard to Win Over U.S. Evangelicals (Haaretz) “Calculating that both the public and many in the political elite would rally behind him,…

If a U.S. citizen joins a terrorist organization at war with the U.S., you would expect the government to prosecute her under U.S. jurisdiction. Not the Trump administration: U.S. Accused of Trying to Unconstitutionally Strip Citizenship of U.S.-Born Woman Who Joined ISIS (Democracy Now) Although the author finds that Islamic “concepts or practices that express religious…

Most see Macron’s plan to create “a French Islam … as either a patronizing intrusion into their personal lives or a surreptitious expansion of the police state”: Liberté for Whom (The Intercept) MbS, “keen to refurbish his personal image and standing, now found himself in the quagmire of India-Pakistan disputes…. Never have two joint statements…

Iranian funds designated for “hostages and their families” are diverted to “relatives of 9/11 victims … despite the fact that the official report on the 2001 attacks ‘found no evidence that Iran . . . was aware of the planning’”: Americans Held in Iran Waited Decades for Relief. Now They Face a New Challenge (Washington Post) “Murad…

A database “tracking the movements of more than 2.5 million people in a region where authorities have waged a crackdown on Muslim minorities … was left unprotected for months” … Chinese ‘Muslim Tracker’ Surveillance System Monitoring Movements of 2.5m People in Xinjiang (Independent) … while in the U.S. “a federal official recently acknowledged in a…

Dr. Merkel’s “uncharacteristically passionate speech … received a standing ovation … in sharp contrast to the polite near-silence that greeted Mr Pence’s address “: Angela Merkel Rejects US Demand to Quit Iran Deal (Irish Times) “[T]he commander sat in the same vehicle with his soldiers, watching them, without telling them to stop, as they beat…