Month: June 2015
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News and Analysis (6/17/15)
In a March 2015 TEDtalk, Trevor Aaronson revealed how the FBI manipulates mentally ill and poor Muslim-Americans to set up terrorist attacks… Trevor Aaronson: How This FBI Strategy Is Actually Creating US-Based Terrorists (TEDTalk) The Sting: How the FBI Created a Terrorist (Intercept) …And another Muslim man was recently charged by FBI with conspiracy and transportation firearms with…
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News and Analysis (6/16/15)
Former minister Hamid calls Tuesday’s death sentence against Morsi a “nail in the coffin of democracy” and Western diplomats criticize it for the risk it will turn Egypt’s first freely elected President  into a martyr, which could lead to an armed conflict … Egyptian Court Sentences Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood Leaders to Death (Christian Science Monitor) ……
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News and Analysis (6/15/15)
With difficulty, UN Chief Ban Ki-Moon is aiming for a truce in Yemen. “I’m urging them that, particularly during this Ramadan — which is a period for peace for people, and praying for peace — they must stop,” Ki-Moon told reporters: UN Chief Opens Yemen Talks (Al Jazeera) Critics argue “that the government’s promotion of…
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News and Analysis (6/14/15)
“The International Criminal Court indicted Omar al-Bashir over crimes committed in Darfur, but the Sudanese president is unlikely to face arrest in South Africa… The United States’ decision not to sign the ICC’s Rome Statute has caused resentment among African states”: Judge Bars Sudan’s Bashir from Leaving South Africa (Christian Science Monitor) Pakistan did not specify the reasons…
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Fiqh al-Zakah in India and the Emergence of New Applied Ethics of Socioeconomic Justice: Case Studies of Islamic Charities
[This is the tenth in a series of my notes on the International Institute of Islamic Thought conference on Islamic Law and Ethics held in Herndon, VA in June  2014. These notes are NOT a transcript, but a lightly edited presentation of  my perception of the discussion. The proceedings will be published by IIIT at a later time.…
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News and Analysis (6/12/15)
The terrorist group Boko Haram’s suicide bombings in Maiduguri, Nigeria, have recently increased, now using women and girls to do the bombings… Women Are Dying In ‘Suicide’ Attacks in Nigeria as Boko Haram Steps Up Insurgency (Huffington Post) …Meanwhile, President Buhari has set up a joint military force along with Nigeria’s neighboring countries to fight Boko…
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News and Analysis (6/11/15)
In the prospect of a new President in 2017, Ian Bremmer calls for a new approach to US Foreign Policy, preferably a less interventionist one – the Independent America approach … 3 American Foreign Policy Options That 2016 Presidential Candidates Need to Choose Between (Huffington Post) … but the Obama administration sends 450 additional troops to…
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News and Analysis (6/10/15)
Zach Hunt asks Christians to imagine how they would feel were people to use the actions of a few extremist to represent the whole faith: The Duggars Have a Lot to Teach the Church About Islam (The Huffington Post) The ban has sparked debate nationally and internationally. Among the skeptics of the ban is Ayesha Akhtar: “’As much…
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News and Analysis (6/8/15)
“Retired Saudi general Anwar Majed Eshki and former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Dore Gold publicly announced that since the beginning of 2014, representatives from Israel and Saudi Arabia have had five secret bilateral meetings to discuss Iran in India, Italy, and the Czech Republic”: How Iran Has Brought Israel and Saudi Arabia Together…
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News and Analysis (6/5/15)
“A revealing light on how we got here has now been shone by a recently declassified secret US intelligence report, written in August 2012, which uncannily predicts – and effectively welcomes – the prospect of a ‘Salafist principality’ in eastern Syria and an al-Qaida-controlled Islamic state in Syria and Iraq”: Now the Truth Emerges: How…
