Month: December 2022
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The Passing of Ali Memon
Former Minaret of Freedom Institute’s board member Ali Memon passed away yesterday, leaving behind his wife Razia and two sons Kamran and Nauman. Today, I joined them and other members of his family and many friends at his burial where we prayed for him and put the earth over his grave. Ali is remembered by…
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News and Analysis 12/30/22
Calling an an art history class display of a historical Muslim image of Muhammad (pbuh) Islamophobic “has privileged a most extreme and conservative Muslim point of view. . [and] flattened the rich history and diversity of Islamic thought”: Most of All I Am Offended as a Muslim (Chronicle of Higher Education) As Israeli oppression continues…
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News and Analysis 12/28/22
Blaming “Western countries, Israel and Saudi Arabia of fomenting the unrest,” and “arrests of dozens of dual nationals, … [aims] to shift blame away from the Iranian leadership”: Iran Reroutes Plane Carrying Soccer Star’s Wife, Blames UK over Unrest (Reuters) Initially in opposition to the Soviet Union, now of Russia and China, and always in…
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News and Analysis 12/25/22
Muslims look at Christmas in America … Eboo Patel: A Muslim Family Celebrates Christmas (Chicago Tribune) … and in the land of Jesus’s (pbuh) birth: Unholy Days and Nights in Bethlehem (Israel-Palestine News) Caution Overshadows Christmas Celebration in Bethlehem as Palestinians Brace for a Radical-right Israeli Government (Arab News) Occupation: On Christmas, Israel Denies Palestinian…
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News and Analysis 12/22/22
“‘You can’t stop the truth,’ said Nafar, speaking after the concert which Israeli police failed to shut down” … Israeli Police Try to Cancel Palestinian Rapper Tamer Nafar Concert Mid-show… and Fail (New Arab) … but in Germany a “new report by ministers and senators seeks to lay the legal basis for outlawing Palestinian groups,…
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News and Analysis 12/19/22
“[D]uring a time of especially heavy Israeli state violence” one rights group reported 700 instances of censorship and another “that nearly half of the Palestinian-themed content that disappeared off of Instagram” … Social Media’s History of Suppressing Palestine Content (Israel-Palestine News) … so Musk’s selection of Bari “Weiss as one of the journalists to break…
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News and Analysis 12/17/22
One victim charges “that the Israeli ban was unjustified since most Christians in Gaza do not have any political or factional affiliation”: Israel Blocks Gaza’s Christians from Celebrating Christmas in Bethlehem (Al-Monitor) As the Israeli violence continues to mount… Israeli Soldiers Injure Dozens of Palestinians, One Seriously, in West Bank (IMEMC) Army Abducts Ten Palestinians,…
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News and Analysis 12/15/22
The World Cup demonstrates that ordinary Arabs do not share their despotic rulers’ desire for normalization: De-Normalizing Israeli Normalization at the World Cup (Jewish Currents) Pro-Israel Group Complains to FIFA About Morocco Waiving Palestine Flag (Middle East Monitor) “The United States introduced the resolution, which” passed 29-8, with 16 abstentions: Iran Removed from UN Commission…
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News and Analysis 12/13/22
“Zakarneh is the 166th victim so far this year of the Israeli killing machine in the occupied West Bank, the 10th since the start of this month, including 39 minors”: A 16-year-old Girl Is the Latest Victim in Israel’s Daily Aggression in the Occupied Territories (Palestine News Network) “Majidreza Rahnavard. He was convicted of ‘waging…
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News and Analysis 12/11/22
As the West focuses on Ukraine, Israel’s violent rampage continues: American Mainstream Media Have Averted Their Gaze (Again) from Palestinian Suffering. Eleven Palestinian Deaths in Seven Days Is Apparently Not News (Israel-Palestine News) Invading Israeli Forces Assassinate 5 More Palestinians in Two Days, Including 16-yr-old (Israel-Palestine News) Topics on which fatwas were issued at this…
