Calling the Faithful to Freedom!

After years of pretending that Asad had a monopoly on chemical weapons in Syria, the U.S. finally admits to (some of the) evidence that his opponents have used them: U.S. Expects Islamic State to Wield Chemical Weapons in Mosul Fight (Reuters) Unless the Sunni population’s antipathy to Iraq’s “Shia-dominated government … changes, the military defeat of…

Unsatisfied with the mass murder of Muslims, the home-grown terrorists planned to target “churches that had supported refugees … [and] allegedly plotted attacking city and county commission meetings and even landlords who rented to Muslim refugees” as well … Right-Wing ‘Crusaders’ Militia Group Plotted Terror Attack On Muslim Immigrants, FBI Charges (Huffington Post) … but…

“This is a clear sign that the terrorist organization has started to lose support not only from the population, but even from its own members” — Iraqi Counter-terrorism Service spokesman Sabah al-Numani: Islamic State Crushes Rebellion Plot in Mosul as Army Closes In (Reuters) “With this direct US involvement in Yemen’s civil war, the US…

“[T]wo days after an apparent Saudi-led air strike killed 140 mourners at a funeral attended by powerful tribal leaders” … Yemen’s Houthis Respond to Air Strike with Missile Attack (Reuters) … “diplomatic neglect as well as US and UK arms sales have fueled Saudi-Iranian proxy war that could blow up in west’s face”: Why Yemen…

When it comes to recognizing women’s achievement, architecture historian Mary Woods thinks that the Pritzker committee has much to learn from the precedent set by the Muslims’ Aga Khan Award for Architecture: Women Won the Biggest Cash Prize in Architecture for Designing Remarkable Muslim Spaces (Quartz) Since coming to America this Ahmadiyya Muslim met many Muslims who “sympathize with…

Snowden tried to warn us. Did Yahoo comply with an illegal order from the U.S. government? Exclusive: Yahoo Secretly Scanned Customer emails for U.S. Intelligence – Sources (Reuters) “The Pentagon confirmed the PR firm did work for them…. US law prohibits the government from using propaganda on its population, hence the use of an outside firm…

If you “use soap, shampoo, toothpaste, a toothbrush, coffee, a clock, a camera, a fountain pen[, … [or studied] algebra, chemistry or the scientific method at a university[, or] … own a guitar or magnifying glasses in your home … you have Islamic civilization to thank”: Cutting the Study of Islam a Mistake (Knoxville News…

Al-Ghazali accused the jurists of preferring “the management of religious endowments … and appointment to judicial and government positions through which one exalts himself above his fellow men and fastens his yoke on his enemies” over other disciplines such as medicine: Removal of the Heart: how Islam became a matter of state in Iran (Guardian) “If…

The murder of Hattar is the tip of ugly iceberg; the context is the state’s disbanding organizations, blocking publications, and harassing, arresting, and imprisoning individuals for “merely engaging in critical debate”: Brief Reflections on Assassinations and Intolerance in Jordan (Jadaliyya) Tennessee’ State Board of Elections has decided their children are not ignorant enough: Plan Could…