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News and Analysis (7/5/17)
Started as 7th century schools for women to learn Islam, they became mosques for women in the 18th century and now aim at helping women and men to educate together: Why Does China Have Women-only Mosques? (China and the Middle East) Charges that a parts of a study by an Austrian government minister critical of…
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News and Analysis (7/3/17)
Even pro-Israeli Congress members are dismayed at Israel’s persecution of an award-winning, globally recognized leader of Palestinian peaceful resistance: 34 House Dems Condemn Israeli Charges Against Issa Amro — Follower of Civil Rights Movement and Gandhi (Mondoweiss) Knights of Golan leader says they couldn’t survive without Israels constant support: Israel Secretly Paying Salaries of Syrian…
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News and Analysis (7/2/17)
Immigrants make for more economic opportunities and less crime … A Day with Dearborn Representative Abdulla Hammoud: a Young Arab American Strives for a More Welcoming Success (Arab American News) … yet 114 Americans of Iraqi descent are captured by ICE officials causing mass protest in Detroit … and they’re mostly Christians: Iraqi Americans Seek…
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News and Analysis (6/29/17)
For Trump, you have no bona fide relationship to your “fiancées, grandparents, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, and other extended family”: Revised Version of Trump’s Travel Ban Is Set to Take Effect, but a Supreme Court Decision in the Case Raises ‘More Questions than Answers’ (Business Insider) His economic reform plans are welcome, but…
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Told to Come Alone: Souad Mekhennet’s Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad
At New America in Washington DC on Thursday, June 22nd, Souad Mekhennet, author of I Was Told to Come Alone: My Journey Behind the Lines of Jihad, shared her experiences as a journalist interviewing terrorist operatives face to face and getting to the root of why these people were joining these organizations: Recruiters are successful…
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News and Analysis (6/28/17)
Do refugee victims of U.S. foreign policy have a  “bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States”? How Trump Can Get His Muslim Ban (Slate) Seymour Hersch learned that “President Donald Trump ignored important intelligence reports when he decided to attack Syria after he saw pictures of dying children” … Trump‘s…
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News and Analysis (6/25/17)
The first White House iftar was in 1805, but Donald Trump is no Thomas Jefferson, nor even a George W. Bush: Donald Trump Ends Decades-long White House Tradition of Celebrating Ramadan with Iftar Dinner (Independent) “Francis Boyle … asserts that the recent U.S. shoot-down of a Syrian government jet inside Syria … was not only…
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News and Analysis (6/23/17)
No, says the Court, you can’t strip someone of his citizenship because he didn’t tell you that he once broke the speed limit without getting a ticket: Supreme Court Limits Government’s Power to Revoke Citizenship (The Hill) “[W]ithin the past nine years, right-wing extremists plotted or carried out nearly twice as many terrorist attacks as Islamist…
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News and Analysis (6/21/17)
Although Israel continues to build new settlement illegally and clearly violate international law, the U.S. stands by them: Israel’s Settlements Have No Legal Validity, Constitute Flagrant Violation of International Law, Security Council Reaffirms (United Nations) New researcher find what we’ve all already known, Muslims are in fact the most likely victims of terrorism worldwide: Muslims…
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News and Analysis (6/20/17)
Westerners have selective memories that forget the far more frequent terrorism of non-Muslims (and anti-Islamist Muslims): The Numbers Don’t Lie: Even in the Middle East, Most Terrorism Is Not ‘Islamic’ (Middle East Eye) Sen. Rand Paul says the other senators are “more concerned about the jobs the weapons manufacturers could generate than the lives of…
