Month: May 2017

“The two men who were killed appear to have stepped in to protect the women from racial slurs”; … White Supremacist Arrested in Fatal Stabbing of Two Men After Anti-Muslim Rant in Portland (LA Times) … “More than 2,000 people attended the candlelit vigil at the Hollywood Transit Centre, where the attack took place, on…

To succeed at reform in his second term Rouhani must apply the “win-win approach he has defined for foreign policy … [to] domestic issues”: Rouhani’s Election Victory in Iran Was Dramatic, but How Deep Did It Go? (Christian Science Monitor) “Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the administration would appeal to the Supreme Court” … Trump…

Rouhani won “partly on promises of continued détente with the West…. But Trump made clear in a landmark speech on Sunday that comity with Iran was not on the table” … Iran’s Hardliners Use Trump’s Speech on Islam as Excuse to Hammer Rouhani (Time) … his “Sunday diatribe in Riyadh … utterly ignor[ed] … the…

“The goal … is not tolerance, as much as it is finding ways to use and instrumentalize Islam and Muslims to fight terrorism … [but]  the focus on religion runs the risk of distracting the U.S. from the political factors that it can more readily shape” … Trump’s Islam Speech and the Blessings of Low…

Humiliated on return “from a vacation to decompress after a two-year military deployment to Kuwait … to combat the Islamic State”: Police Officer, Combat Veteran, Muslim and J.F.K. Detainee (NY Times) The Mesa Police Dept. will pay “thousands of dollars in public funds … [to] a disgraced former FBI agent with deep ties to anti-Muslim…

Other victims include one whose phone messages were falsely called “ISIS material, … an Iraqi refugee” speaking in Arabic on the phone, and a couple deemed “suspiciously ‘sweating’“: Muslim Men Hauled Off Manchester Flight After Passengers Complain They Were ‘Making Gestures’ (Independent) Calling the law “outrageous” she asks if exempt persons including schoolchildren, “the elderly, people with medical…

An Orwellian “memory hole,” as in “Donald Trump does not advocate a Muslim ban. Donald Trump has never advocated a Muslim ban”: Muslim Ban Language Suddenly Disappears from Trump Campaign Website After Spicer Questioned (Washington Post) “Bayan and other US seminaries … can’t produce graduates fast enough to meet the demands of communities desperate for…

“Muslims who are serious about their faith and who are genuine in their commitment to liberty … can usher a reform in Islam toward ‘no compulsion in religion’ and freedom for all”: Islam and Classical Liberalism: Are they compatible? (Learn Liberty) Women in hijab on a Playboy cover and “Muslim reformers in hipster beards and skinny jeans ……

“Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish…. Yet, it is the Zionists who constantly identify Judaism and the Jews with their own colonial project and illegal entity” … Hamas Presents New Charter Accepting a Palestine Based on 1967 Borders (Guardian) … yet those for who nothing less than adoption…