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A “student … organized … petition supporting him … garnered more than 7,000 signatures” and his plight “elicited … support from … organizations including … the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education”: Freshman Previously Denied Entry to the United States Arrives at Harvard (Harvard Crimson) The true purpose of the movement to equate any criticism…

Not allowed to emcee the wedding of his best friend’s daughter in Queens after being questioned about his charitable work helping to resettle Syrian refugees, he was told only that “his name ‘matches that of a bad guy’”: Guyanese-born Imam from Canadian Blocked from Entering US (Kaieteur News) Bolton is fighting against the president’s plan…

Contrary to popular (mis)perception American Muslims are well-integrated. A Rice University professor of Islamic history thinks Muslim Americans are “finding new ways of expressing their faith” without losing their religion: Generations of Pasadena Family Grapple with What It Means to Be Muslim American (Houston Chronicle) The 19 year-old woman, “currently housed in … a shelter…

SIS invited a dangerous intervention of state authority into religious questions by asking the High Court to rule on the merit of a wrong-headed fatwa (nonbinding opinion) declaring “liberalism and pluralism” unIslamic: High Court Says Can’t Hear SIS Challenge Against ‘Deviant’ Fatwa, Directs Group to Shariah Courts (Malay Mail) A Dark Day for Malaysia —…

Expansion of foreigner tribunals, plans for “huge new detention camps,” arrest of hundreds “on suspicion of being a foreign migrant — including a Muslim veteran of the Indian Army,” have driven dozens to suicide”: India Plans Big Detention Camps for Migrants. Muslims Are Afraid (NY Times) Iran said that “the owner and purchaser of this oil…

“He was sentenced to “ten months in prison and a 2,000 shekel ($570 U.S.) fine” for Facebook “posts, calling for an end to the occupation and end to the suffering” which Israel considers “incitement” … Israel’s Online Occupation of Palestine (Progressive) … while Facebook and Twitter took paid ads intended “to convince Westerners that the…

“Both in Egypt and Turkey, Islamic movements have struggled to survive in authoritarian regimes that exert strong control over religious practice”: How Two Islamic Groups Fell from Power to Persecution: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and Turkey’s Gulenists (The Conversation) “[T]he judges insist on building a case against Tariq Ramadan” despite the fact that the investigations commissioned…

“Israel has expanded its scope of operations to attack targets in Iraq, whose coalition government is friendly to the United States. The predictable result: the Iraqi government is bailing on Trump’s policy”: How Secret Israeli Attacks in Iraq Are Driving Trump’s Anti-Iran Campaign (Independent Media Institute / Salon) “In 2012, Maruf suggested Muslims should not…

Has Trump inadvertently bullied Israel into admitting that–for once–it fears the U.S. Congress? Israel’s Decision to Ban U.S. Congresswomen Is Self-Defeating (New Republic) Bernie Sanders To Israel: Ban Our Lawmakers? Then Don’t Take Our Money (Huffington Post) Editorial: The Omar and Tlaib Ban from Israel Is a Disgrace. True Democracies Aren’t Afraid of Critics (LA…