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News and Analysis (12/9/16)
“I … felt unwelcome in my homeland for the first time. It’s something I had never known before”: Reporter’s Notebook: What It Was Like as a Muslim to Cover the Election (NPR) The senior pastor said that one of their security “team called the school because they felt the students appeared older than than traditional…
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News and Analysis (12/6/16)
“[T]he legend of Pearl Harbor, re-used on 9-11, is responsible … for the permanent war mentality of the past 75 years, as well as for how World War II was escalated, prolonged, and completed”: 75 Years of Pearl Harbor Lies (Foreign Policy Journal) “Elsokary, who regularly wears a hijab while on duty in Brooklyn, was…
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News and Analysis (12/3/16)
Feds say the leader of one of New Jersey’s largest mosques should have called detention and harassment suffered at the hands of the Israelis a “conviction,” but Qatani insists that he “was never told that he was convicted of anything”: Muslim Cleric Heads Back to Court to Fight off Deportation (AP /abc News) “Nobody even offered…
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News and Analysis (12/1/16)
Gorka “has pushed legislation to … impose sanctions on … mainstream civil rights organizations such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Islamic Society of North America,” the largest association of American mosques: Anti-Muslim Activist Katharine Gorka Named to Homeland Security Transition Team (Intercept) “As she was looking down at her phone, a man came up…
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Alternative Responses to Violent Extremism: Islamic Approaches to Peacebuilding
[This is a summary of the 16th Annual Tachmindji Event for Interfaith Dialogue and Peacebuilding held on Sunday, October 30, 2016 at American University. It is not a transcript, but my paraphrase of Sr. Mohammed Abu-Nimr’s presentation.] “Alternative Responses to Violent Extremism: Islamic Approaches to Peacebuilding” Dr. Mohammed Abu-Nimer shared experiences of the past few years. A Palestinian…
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News and Analysis (11/28/16)
“We’re not passive receptacles for bigotry; we fight back, we stand up for our rights. This is my country as much as it is John Smith’s…. [W]e’re not only giving ourselves the option to kick ass – we’re also giving ourselves the confidence to walk with our heads held high in this country”: Hijab Grab…
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Don’t Blame the Victims: Colonialist Ecosavagery Is Behind the Fires in Palestine
Over 200 forest fires are raging in Palestine (now renamed the Jewish State of Israel including its occupied Palestinian territories). Many countries are helping put out the fires including four teams of Palestinian firefighters (no body helped Gaza when it was being fire-bombed by white phosphorous). But the fascist racist government of “Israel†blamed the Palestinians for the fires!…
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News and Analysis (11/25/16)
All Muslims revere the Prophet Muhammad and the early Muslims, but the term is now being used to mean followers of Muhammad ibn Abdul-Wahab, but “even Saudi Salafism, despite appearances, is no monolith”: As European Authorities Target Salafism, the Word Needs Parsing (Economist) “The predominantly Muslim region, which has around 10 million Muslim Uyghurs, has…
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News and Analysis (11/22/16)
Would-be Cabinet member Kris Kobach’s proposed Muslim registry and changes to voting laws would be ineffective, counter-productive, unconstitutional, and an intolerable attack on the values and fabric of American society: Why a Muslim Registry Could Kill Jobs for Decades to Come (CNBC) Muslim Registry or NSEERS Reboot Would Be Unconstitutional (Lawfare) Rep. DelBene Bill Would Block…
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News and Analysis (11/20/16)
“As headlines like “President’s Trump’s Cabinet Will Be Filled With Deplorables†and “Trump’s Cabinet Is Going to Be As Bonkers as You Thought†make clear, the U.S. president-elect has chosen to undergo this transition with far-right and controversial people” … Steve Bannon Contributed to Anti-Muslim Hate. American Media Must Call Him Out (Huffington Post) … including the…
