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Sincere Advice for ErdoÄŸan on Hagia Sophia
The Vatican message marking the advent of Ramadan this year, addressing “Christians and Muslims: Protecting Together the Places of Worship,” says, “For both Christians and Muslims, churches and mosques are spaces reserved for prayer, personal and communitarian alike. They are constructed and furnished in a way that favors silence, reflection and meditation. They are spaces…
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News and Analysis (7/19/20)
“The secret authorization–issued sometime in 2018–offered the US spy agency more freedom to both conduct cyber operations and choose its targets without the White House’s approval”: Report: CIA Conducted Cyber Attacks Against Iran, Russia After Secret Trump Order in 2018 (Forbes) “Iranian law allows those convicted to appeal again even after an appeals court has…
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News and Analysis (7/15/20)
After a Muslim employee’s report that George Floyd tried to pass a counterfeit $20 bill led to the accused’s murder by police, the store’s Muslim owner says that it “will no longer call the police on customers”: At the Doorstep of Unity of Purpose Within a Diverse Faith Community (Milwaukee Independent) All opposition parties condemned…
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News and Analysis (7/12/20)
After decades of violating the Qur’anic commandment Sudan scrapes laws that made it illegal for non-Muslims to drink alcohol and that criminalized conversion from Islam “potentially punishable by death”: Sudan Allows Alcohol Consumption, Decriminalises Leaving Islam (APF / Deccan Herald) Palestinian-Dutch supermodel Bella Hadid says that the removal her post reflects a trend “to restrict…
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News and Analysis (7/9/20)
While numbers of US businesses were shut out of the Relief packages, pro-Israeli nonprofit organizations benefited heavily: Israel Affinity Organizations and Businesses Received Millions in Forgivable PPP Loans (WRMEA) “Palestinian residents face widespread discrimination, most lack citizenship and many live in fear of being forced out” … Jerusalem Offers a Grim Model for a Post-Annexation…
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Black Liberty Matters
With the murder of George Floyd, the demand for respect for the lives of black Americans has exploded into the streets. Yet, after two decades of imprisonment of Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (f/k/a H. Rap Brown), the demand for the respect of the LIBERTY of black Americans remains shockingly mute. Is it that Americans value liberty…
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News and Analysis (7/7/20)
“In light of the evidence that the US has provided to date, the targeting of General Soleimani, and the deaths of those accompanying him, constitute an arbitrary killing” — UN special rapporteur: US Killing of Iran’s Qassem Soleimani ‘Unlawful’: UN Expert (Aljazeera) “Contrary to USAID’s comments …, Lloyd does not refer to ‘radical Islam’ in…
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News and Analysis (7/5/20)
“It was important for me to do this on a holiday that is supposed to represent America, and I wanted to shed more light on what America really should be about” — demonstrator Sandra Nichols: ‘Hate Is Not Welcome Here’: Stillwater Community Rallies to Support Muslim Woman Harassed by White Supremacist Motorcycle Club (CBS Minnesota)…
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News and Analysis (7/2/20)
Based on Israeli Absentee Property Law, On June 30, The Jerusalem District Court denied the Sumarin family’s appeal to remain in their home they built 30 years ago even though the family was never absent from the house … Justice Denied: Press Congress to Intervene (Rebuilding Alliance) … lending support to the Palestinian claim that…
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Getting Real About Israeli Annexation Plans
The diversity of reactions to Netanyahu’s planned formal annexation all West Bank settlements have been fascinating. While disinterested parties, such as the EU, have generally been opposed to the proposal, not all Zionists favor it and not all Palestinians think it means a whole lot. Christian Zionists love it for the same reasons some pragmatic…
