Calling the Faithful to Freedom!

“Jaish al-Islam accused the Syrian government of carrying out a chemical attack on Douma that a medical relief organization and rescue workers say killed dozens of people. The government has denied carrying out any such attack” … Jaish al-Islam to Leave Douma in Return for Releasing Prisoners (Reuters) … but as with last year’s “cruise…

Yemen’s conflict has resulted in so many men being killed, recruited for battle, or mentally “shattered, that it has forced many women into roles rarely seen in such a conservative society”: Yemen’s Women as Warriors of Peace (Christian Science Monitor) A marathon runner known “as Dr. ’Ali, The Fitness Doc ― she holds a doctorate in…

As the date Islamphobes have promoted to spread hatred and violence approaches, proposed preventatives range from telling women and children to stay of the streets … Muslim Women Are Told to Hide Their Hijabs and Not to Pick Up Children from School Alone Ahead of Sick ‘Punish A Muslim Day’ (Daily Mail) … to calls…

Boyd Benson joined Kansas Security Forces members because he fears Islam, but when members started to talk about killing one-year old Muslim babies  and raping the wives and daughter of their landlords, he quit: Accused Terrorists Were So Extreme They Scared Other Anti-Muslim Bigots (Huffington Post) “[M]any Muslims consider a top-down approach to manage Islam…

“Bolton’s appointment as national security adviser doesn’t require Senate confirmation,” but Pompeo and Haspel face scrutiny for their support of, and in her case involvement in, torture”: Bolton and Pompeo Might Unleash Trump on ‘Radical Islam (Politico) “Muslim Women’s Day is a call to action to… center Muslim women’s voices for the day, to empower…

The purpose of the law is to drag “Muslim businesses and even houses of worship could … into potential lawsuits, something that would certainly have a chilling effect on American Muslim commercial and civic life”: Andy’s Law Fails in Alabama, but the Anti-Muslim Legislation Has Passed in Seven States to Date (Southern Poverty Law Center)…

Hanna Luden from the center for information and documentation on Israel has joined Muslims and civil libertarians in condemning Geert Wilder’s latest venture into reviving Nazi-style propaganda in 21st century Europe: PVV Anti-Islam Campaign Video Sparks Outrage, Charges (NL Times) Because some fool thinks the Malaysian flag is an American flag desecrated with Islamic symbols,…

Police allege a plot to bomb “a mosque and an apartment complex that was home to Somali refugees” and also to kill “the apartment complex’s white owner to send a message to other landlords about renting to immigrants”: In Kansas, Militia ‘Crusaders’ to Stand Trial in Somali Muslim Bomb Plot (Al-Jazeera) The lawsuits allege that the…

Cheering Rex Tillerson’s exit are a coalition of neoconservatives, the “primitive right” of Hungarian fascist Sebastian Gorka, and the warmongering Foundation for Defense of Democracies back by Sheldon Adelson: The Political Forces Behind Rex Tillerson’s Firing (The American Conservative) An “anti-Muslim bigot in Congress or even leading the CIA” is bad enough, but nominating him to…