Calling the Faithful to Freedom!

Even Israel’s post office practices apartheid, … Eight years’ Worth of Undelivered Letters and Packages Are Finally Arriving Through Palestinian Letterboxes After Being Held Up by Israel on Security Grounds (Independent) … and Palestinians can’t use the airport as even Palestinian-Americans “have been sent back to the U.S. upon arrival at Ben Gurion. And for Gaza’s…

“The social media, email and telephone threats made against … Judge Sarah Backus were deemed so serious that court officials felt compelled to reiterate her responsibility to decide on the law, not public opinion based on incomplete information”: Judge in N.M. Compound Case Threatened After Ordering Release of Muslim Family (USA Today) Reports of Iraqi…

Socially conservative Muslims see a “disconnect with some parts of the Democratic political platform” but unlike their Catholic and Evangelical counterparts, “feel little imperative to use government to promote those value”: What Binds Muslims to the Democratic Party? (Religion News Services) The Ottoman Empire ended in 1922 with Kamal Attaturk’s secular rule in Turkey. The…

As Netanyahu boasts that Israels new law will prevent Palestinian families from reuniting: Israel’s Family Separation Law (972) His staff insists he did not know what was written on the sign handed him comparing Trump’s proposed wall with Israel’s and insists the senator from New Jersey still supports Israeli apartheid: Cory Booker Claims He Didn’t…

A “group called Veterans Against Islamic Filth, with 2,700 members, violated a specific Facebook rule against referring to a group of people as ‘filth.’ Yet the group remained up until Buzzfeed contacted Facebook for comment on the story”: Anti-Muslim Facebook is Even Worse Than We Thought (Splinter) “Indian movies which talk of Islam and Muslims,…

“Israeli Occupation Forces cut all communications and then violently attacked [the] lead boat … in international waters, pulled down its Norwegian flag and trampled upon it. According to many testimonies … they then beat up and tasered several people and stole most of the participants’ property”: ‘Freedom’ Under Attack as It CarriesMedical Supplies to Gaza…

Jared Kushner’s bid to destroy UNRWA “is part of a broader push by the Trump administration and its allies in Congress to strip these Palestinians of their refugee status in the region and take their issue off the table in negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians”: Trump and Allies Seek End to Refugee Status for…

Although “Trump’s surprise announcement that he is willing to talk to Mr. Rouhani“  fits his impulsive profile, it also fits into a plan Bolton formulated last year at the behest of Steve Bannon intended to put Iran in to an impossible position … Talking to Rouhani: Is Trump Shooting from the Hip or Following a…

Is Khan’s win “about growing up as a democracy; about maturing as a nation privileged with fundamental rights and liberties; about flowering as a society that is shrugging off the bitter past of a menacing State,” or has he “shown a soft spot for the powerful army and religious extremists”? Khan’s Victory in Pakistan Prompts…