Month: July 2017

  • News and Analysis (7/13/17)

    Under public pressure the Trump administration will allow a team of Afghan girls twice denied visas to enter the U.S. for a robotics competition entry on “parole” (Parole? Are they afraid the girls will bring in an army of robots to conquer the country?): Afghan Girls Robotics Team Given US Visa After Outrage (Al-Jazeera) A…

  • News and Analysis (7/12/17)

    A township trustee in Illinois draws fire for her online bigotry … Preckwinkle Joins Activists in Denouncing Trustee’s Anti-Muslim Posts (Chicago Sun-Times) … but in the face of constituents calling for his removal form office, a politician insists that his call for the murder of “every last Muslim” is protected free speech: Kalkaska Village Leader…

  • News and Analysis (7/11/17)

    U.S. politicians saved the totalitarian cult “disowned by the opposition Green Movement and … loathed by ordinary Iranians for having fought on Saddam Hussein’s side during the Iran-Iraq war” from its place on the U.S. terrorism list: Here’s Why Washington Hawks Love Their Cultish Iranian Exile Group (The Intercept) “[T]he Afghan girls are the only nation’s…

  • News and Analysis (7/8/17)

    Symbolizing the American military, Wonder Woman respects no borders, decides who needs help and who’s trouble, is prepared to force others to respect her: Wonder Woman is a Hero Only the Military-Industrial Complex Could Create (Jonathan Cook) Clinton lost because PA, WI, and MI have high casualty rates and saw her as pro-war, study says:…

  • News and Analysis (7/7/17)

    Although the government already yielded on allowing fiancés into the country as bona fide relations, the judge is leaving the question of grandparents to the Supreme Court: Bid to Exempt Grandparents from US Muslim Ban Rejected (Al-Jazeera) The flaw in the strategy of designating Muslim archbishops to draw into the establishment is Islam abhors hierarchy,…

  • News and Analysis (7/5/17)

    Started as 7th century schools for women to learn Islam, they became mosques for women in the 18th century and now aim at helping women and men to educate together: Why Does China Have Women-only Mosques? (China and the Middle East) Charges that a parts of a study by an Austrian government minister critical of…

  • News and Analysis (7/3/17)

    Even pro-Israeli Congress members are dismayed at Israel’s persecution of an award-winning, globally recognized leader of Palestinian peaceful resistance: 34 House Dems Condemn Israeli Charges Against Issa Amro — Follower of Civil Rights Movement and Gandhi (Mondoweiss) Knights of Golan leader says they couldn’t survive without Israels constant support: Israel Secretly Paying Salaries of Syrian…

  • News and Analysis (7/2/17)

    Immigrants make for more economic opportunities and less crime … A Day with Dearborn Representative Abdulla Hammoud: a Young Arab American Strives for a More Welcoming Success (Arab American News) … yet 114 Americans of Iraqi descent are captured by ICE officials causing mass protest in Detroit … and they’re mostly Christians: Iraqi Americans Seek…

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