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“The investigation is focusing on how 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate, a highly explosive chemical used in fertilizers, came to be stored at the facility for six years”: Negligence Probed in Deadly Beirut Blast amid Public Anger (AP) India’s feeble concession to journalists unable to do their jobs because of the Internet shutdown in Kashmir:…

Automatons were among the “creations of the 12th-century … inventor Ismail al-Jazari, who laid the groundwork for modern engineering, hydraulics, and even robotics”: Medieval Robots? They Were Just One of this Muslim Inventor’s Creations (National Geographic) A Circuit Court has ruled that a Muslim inmate allegedly “fired from his prison job for reporting his bosses’…

Convention delegates are frustrated by both the Democratic Party’s refusal to acknowledge Israel’s brutal occupation and “by a drafting and voting process that was anything but open, inclusive and democratic”: The 2020 Democratic Platform Betrays Palestinians and Again Gives Israel a Pass (Washington Post) The Australian native “converted to Islam as a teenager. He ‘fell…

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…

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…

“‘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…

“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…

Because the “legislation … is unlikely to be embraced in the Republican-led Senate, … it appears the issue will be fought out in the US presidential election contest”: US House Poised to Vote on Reversing Trump’s ‘Muslim Ban’ (Aljazeera) African-American Muslims want to know why Arab-American Muslims are peddling alcohol, pork, and racism: Un-HolyLand? An…

“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…

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…