Calling the Faithful to Freedom!

The police defend the arrest of an Indian-Muslim comedian for comments he did not make and a high court judge denies him and the event organizers and a personal friend bail demonstrating the BJP threat to freedom of speech: As Munawar Faruqui Case Shows, Questioning BJP’s Hindutva Project While Muslim Can Land You in Jail…

Senate overwhelmingly approves making Trump’s relocation of embassy to Jerusalem permanent: US Senate Approves Amendment to Keep Embassy in Jerusalem (Jerusalem Post) BJP pushes a narrative that large Muslim families is an “organized conspiracy” to alter India’s demography, but a popular scholarly book concludes that Hindus will always be the majority: SY Quraishi Debunks the…

UN Tribunal Court says it “finds consequently that it has jurisdiction … to entertain the application filed by the Islamic Republic of Iran” following U.S. sanctions being reimposed: UN Court Says It Can Hear Case Brought by Iran Against US (WHTM-TV) Iran Hails UN Court Ruling on Hearing over US Sanctions as ‘Victory’ (TRT World)…

Against Biden’s campaign promise, the current U.S. administration is planning to keep troops in Afghanistan despite the military intervention’s failure: Foreign Troops to Stay in Afghanistan Beyond May Deadline – NATO Sources (Reuters) Don’t Let Biden Sink Troops Back Into the Afghanistan Quagmire (Reason) Remains of a mosque in Tiberias dating back to companions of…

Groups like CAIR are on high alert following Capitol riots as they receive direct message from hate group threatening to go “Muslim hunting”: FBI Investigating Alleged Anti-Muslim Instagram Threat (KTVI) “The case has amplified disquiet over the scheme, which has been labelled anti-Muslim and called discriminatory and divisive”: Muslim Boy, 4, Was Referred to Prevent…

Since VP Harris was critical of Kashmir annexation in 2019, many are hopeful to see improvements in the region: Hope in Kashmir as Modi Critic Kamala Harris Takes Office (Arab News) Neoconservative critics are terrified that Biden will appoint a man who has “has called U.S. Middle East policy ‘a litany of failed enterprises’ requiring…

Biden administration want to take the JPOCA is a starting point with or without Israeli input:  Biden Says He Will Seek to Rejoin Iran Nuclear Deal as a Starting Point (CBS/ Yahoo! News) Biden Will Not Wait for Israel to Make Moves on Iran (Yney) Iran Wants the Nuclear Deal It Made (Foreign Affairs) The…

President Biden’s repeal of the “Muslim” travel ban brings positive comments from Muslims around the country: Federal Executive Order Repeals Muslim Travel Ban  (CBS19 News) ‘I Can Breathe Again’: Affected Families Celebrate the End of the Muslim Ban (Huffington Post) Twitter now says the account banned for violating its policies “was ‘fake,’ without elaborating how…

As Biden enters office, there are several challenges his administration needs to overcome regarding Iran: Nine Hurdles to Reviving the Iran Nuclear Deal (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) Israel censors groups like B’Tselem who describe the country as an “apartheid state” from teaching at schools: Israel to Rein in Rights Groups Over Use of ‘Apartheid…