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Interview by Reza Saiedi on Iranian-American Relations
[This is the text of free-lance journalist Reza Saedi’s interview with Minaret of Freedom Institute president Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad on Iranian-American relations.] Q. Please comment: US sanctions have a direct impact on the Iranian civilian population– limiting medical and research supplies, limiting machinery used to maintain civilian transportation systems, etc. While such actions are criticized by…
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News and Analysis (7/9/18)
It is a war crime for an occupying power to transfer its “civilian population into occupied territory. Passing the bill would simply mean that Ireland is moving to modify its domestic legislation to comply with its third-state obligations” … An Irish Bill on Israeli Settlement Goods Could Make History (Al-Jazeera) … Palestinians refuse to bow to…
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News and Analysis (7/6/18)
“[T]he sheer cruelty — the scope of the violation of human, i.e., natural individual, rights — of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians warrants the concern of all who favor freedom and other (classical) liberal values: justice, social cooperation, free exchange, and peace” … Why Does Palestine Matter? (Counterpunch) … but Trump and Kushner want the…
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News and Analysis (7/4/18)
“Muslims arrived initially as explorers and as slaves, and later as farmers, factory workers, and small-business owners. The first freestanding mosques were constructed in the middle of the country, in North Dakota initially and then in Iowa”: Our Founders Showed Greater Respect for Islam Than Trump and the Supreme Court (The Nation) The hypocrisy of…
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News & Analysis (7/1/18)
Arabs need someone to reform society rather than religion, “who uses the popular legitimacy and the authority of religion to promote social and political change” more “Martin Luther King Jr. more than a Martin Luther”: The Middle East: History Threatens to Repeat Itself (Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer) First Palestinian protest will be held…
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News and Analysis (6/29/18)
The most bitter irony of U.S. withdrawal from JCPOA is that it is the U.S. not Iran that was in violation of the agreement to start with: The United States’ Failures with JCPOA Compliance (NIAC) India claims that that they do not recognize unilateral restrictions imposed by the United States, and that their plans for…
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News and Analysis (6/27/18)
The Supreme Court grants the President a privilege it denied the Colorado Civil Rights Division … Squaring the SCOTUS Decision on the Muslim Ban with the Masterpiece Cakes Decision Is a Disturbing Exercise (Minaret of Freedom Institute) … yet travel ban is not only discriminatory (as noted by Justice Sonia Sotomayor), but ineffective since religion and…
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Squaring the SCOTUS Decision on the Muslim Ban with the Masterpiece Cakes Decision Is a Disturbing Exercise
When confronted with many interesting and important questions about how to weigh religious freedom against the government’s place in fighting invidious discrimination in the Masterpiece Cakes case, the Supreme Court of the United States chose to sidestep all questions but one. They said they didn’t need to decide whether a creative designer of cakes should…
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News and Analysis (6/26/18)
By ruling that “when a president is acting within his executive authority, the court should defer to what the president says his intention is, no matter the underlying reality” the Supreme Court repeats its denial that “the internment of Japanese-Americans [was] based on racial prejudice” … A Decision That Will Live in Infamy (Bloomberg) ……
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News and Analysis (6/24/18)
“HEART educators have been talking about sex and sexual assault for nearly a decade, creating their own #MeToo movement even before it had a name. The organization … puts sex education in a cultural context”: Muslim Sex Educators Forge Their Own #MeToo Movement (NPR) Far right groups are using the FBI as a tool to “to…
