Calling the Faithful to Freedom!

“Islamophobia … is not an organic regrettable outcome of bad Muslims doing bad things. It is something that is being deliberately created in the public, and … there is an entire industry dedicated to manufacturing fear”: Bigoted Election Campaigns, Not Terror Attacks, Drive Anti-Muslim Activity (The Intercept) By sending a journalist to prison for seven and…

“U.S. embassies are casting doubt on a central legal defense to the ban’s constitutionality: individualized waivers.” Of 8,406 visa applications from countries subject to the ban … [o]nly two applicants were granted waivers”: The Empty Promise of “Waivers” from Trump’s Muslim Ban (Just Security) “Broidy told Trump that he had … met with [Saudi] Crown Prince…

“Three Christians who converted to Islam in order to marry a Muslim are “fighting the case to renounce Islam … [on deciding] to return to Christianity upon divorcing or after the death of their spouse”: Sarawak Chief Minister Pledges to Amend State Law to Allow Converts to Renounce Islam (Straits Times) “[I]t was unclear how…

“Being a woman is an all-encompassing role. It demands that we uphold the correct tenets of Islam by our actions and in actions. We need to train ourselves to be unique individuals who do not conform to … absurd societal standards”: Nigeria: Muslim Women Decry Sex Doll, Say Feminists Play More Important Roles (AllAfrica) “Millennial…

Enlightenment scholars saw Islamic culture “as a holistic set of religious, intellectual, and literary traditions deserving respect and attention … that would yield intellectual, aesthetic, and even moral enrichment in a variety of fields”: When Islam Met the Enlightenment (Financial Times) Forced to expose themselves to strange men by Brooklyn police, the women felt “exposed,…

In the first authentic case of “creeping Shariah,” a Dublin imam wants to replace a Catholic inspired prohibition on abortion with an Islamically-inspired  law to balance “the rights of the unborn child . .. with the rights of the mother”: Leading Muslim Cleric Comes Out in Support of Repealing Ireland’s Abortion Laws (Irish Post) “There is,…

How is it possible for a Metro Transit Police officer who “prided himself in never having to use force in all 13 years.  Not so much as even having to pull out his pepper spray” to be convicted of terrorism? Read and weep: Nicholas Young Sentencing (National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms) “The Arabs were regarded…

“Fawzi Khimiri … has been waiting for over three years for the government to approve his permit to open a newspaper and telephone card kiosk.” So why don/t Tunisians understand hat the lack freedom is behind the lack of jobs? In Tunis Suburb, a Revolutionary Demand: Jobs, Not Freedoms (Christian Science Monitor) A fellow Christian…

“Contempt for and irrational fear of a religious group cannot be squared, Chief Judge Roger Gregory wrote, with the First Amendment’s bar on religious discrimination”: Another Appeals Court Blocks Travel Ban 3.0 (Economist) “Hyatt’s mission statement proudly and boldly states: ‘We embrace all … perspectives … and ways of thinking’ … [yet they] did not respond…