Month: August 2020

“[J]ournalist Ola Salem wrote the tactics used in the Aljabri case appear to be a ‘recurring tactic’ used by Arab regimes against growing numbers of dissidents abroad”: Saudi Hit Squad Was Sent to Toronto to Try to Kill Former Intel Official, Lawsuit Alleges (The Star) The Qur’an orders believers to fulfill their contracts; so why…

“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…