Five American Muslims “monitored by the NSA and FBI have all led highly public, outwardly exemplary lives. All five vehemently deny any involvement in terrorism or espionage, and none advocates violent jihad or is … implicated in any crime, despite years of intense scrutiny by the government and … press”:
- Meet the Muslim-American Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Been Spying On (The Intercept)
… and one of the victims, and Bush administration official speaks out, protesting that he is “a very conservative, Reagan-loving Republican,” who sent his children to Catholic school, and who has never voiced “any ill feelings toward the United States,” …
… meanwhile, the UN Human Rights Committee will review an issue of the surveillance issue in Japan, where Muslims are solely “profiled based on their religion without any indication of criminal activity or any connection to wrongdoing”:
- Legal Challenges Against Japanese Police’s Surveillance Targeting Muslims (The Chicago Monitor)
“If corporations have religious rights that warrant protection under the law, why don’t men imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay? A federal judge has given the US government until Tuesday evening to answer that question”:
As it escalates its conflict with the Palestinians, Israel continues to defy the International Law, violates human rights and attempts to discredit the families of the victims and the eyewitnesses. As Israel pursues collective punishment, it targets more civilians by systematic violation of human rights …
- Israel Steps Up Gaza Offensive and Prepares for Possible Ground Invasion (The Guardian)
- Israel’s Impunity Culture: War Crimes, Intimidation and Oppression (Al-Jazeera)
… “And yet, to point out that one side suffers disproportionately – the side that is weaker of the two and doesn’t have a state of its own – is treated by many in Israel and among its friends abroad as the height of bias”:
- The Israeli-Palestinian Revenge Cycle, Take Two (Christian Science Monitor)
The execution of 13 Sunni Muslim clerics last month in Mosul constitutes “a very clear case of atrocities committed against their own people, against religious leaders from Sunni Islam who probably have a less simplistic understanding of what Islam means†…
- Â U.N.: Islamic State Executed Imam of Mosque Where Baghdadi Preached (McClatchy / Miami Herald)
… while amid the escalating violence in which unidentified civilians are killed, …
… ISIS has captured the town of Muthanna, taking control over “control of a vast former chemical weapons facility north-west of Baghdad” :
- ISIS Siezes Former Chemical Weapons Plant in Iraq (The Guardian)
“Each time I return from Canada, I get detained by US Customs and Border Protection and Homeland Security for six hours, which adds up when you have a Canadian fiancée. This is especially insulting because I have no criminal record”:
