Author: ImadadDean
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News and Analysis (7/30/20)
Will Trump continue to pushing “a candidate whose public statements have evinced intolerance to Islam at a time when the military and the rest of the country is reckoning with America’s painful legacy of discrimination”: Senate Hearing Canceled for Controversial Pentagon Nominee Anthony Tata (Defense News) Thanks to Erdogan’s backfiring forced religious education campaign students…
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News and Analysis (7/28/20)
Hajj pilgrims honor the sacrifice of Abraham, and “the Maryland Hajj ended with rented sheep ambling in small petting enclosures and a station where Eldadah said families donated a total of $2,000 to Americans in need”: COVID-19 Denied Her a Pilgrimage, So This Maryland Muslim Woman Made a Drive-Thru Version (WAMU) “President Erdogan is helping…
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News and Analysis (7/26/20)
“‘They all want to kill us’; that’s something you hear in Israel. But as an officer in the Jenin district, I met loads of Palestinians daily. I realized that just isn’t true”: A Young Man Left London to Join Israel’s Army Because He Wanted to Defend the Jewish People but Now Believes the Treatment of…
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News and Analysis (7/24/20)
“I’m not saying the police are perfect. White supremacy is the enemy. It’s everywhere. It’s within all institutions in America” — Imam Khalid Shahid: Muslim Activists Say It’s Time to Join Black Lives Matter Calls to Reform Law Enforcement (Texas Observer) “The Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) has prompted many Afghan and Rohingya Muslim refugees to…
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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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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 (7/5/20)
“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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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…
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News and Analysis (6/22/20)
Apparently with Israeli government approval, spyware is distributed to Arab governments to spy on journalists, including Saudi interceptions of phone calls with the subsequently murdered Jamal Khashoggi: Israeli Spyware Used by Moroccan Government to Target Journalist, Amnesty Claims (Middle East Eye) “The ad, which included a photo collage of President Trump, Pope Francis and burning…
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News and Analysis (5/26/20)
“The Covid-19 pandemic has beautifully dispelled the taboo, the myth, the common practice â — that women do not and cannot pray with men”: When Lockdown Eid Broke a Long-held Taboo in Muslim Homes (Indian Express) “State enforced disruptions to internet access are problematic at all times and in the midst of a global pandemic, such…
