“Iran’s foreign ministry had said on Monday it was willing to talk to Saudi Arabia after months of escalating tensions, but any chance of a rapprochement appeared to be derailed on Saturday as officials and clerics lined up to denounce the kingdom”:
- Why Shiites Are Angry at Saudi Arabia for Execution of Preacher (Christian Science Monitor)
Maajid Nawaz patiently perseveres in his effort to reform Islam from within for the same reason that he keeps “returning to disappointing movie prequel after movie sequel” and tells those who think reform is unlikely it is infinitely more likely than “expecting 1.6 billion Muslims to apostatize en masse”:
- From Star Wars to Islam, The Force Is with Nostalgia (Daily Beast)
“The book is not explicit; numerous education professionals and teachers insisted that it ‘is appropriate for students in the upper grades of high schools.†Israel’s education ministry banned it because of its portrayal of an interracial relationship’”:
- So Much for Tolerance: Israel Bans Arab-Jewish Romance Novel for Promoting Interracial Relationships (Salon)
“[W]e return home [from trips abroad] only to get a knock on the door by federal investigators asking us where we went and why. Not to mention the many federal investigations that seek out Muslims and entrap them into planning a terrorist attack. To say there is government overreach is an understatement”:
- Thank You, My Fellow Americans (Islamic Monthly)
“It is less than two months since British IS propagandist Mohammed Emwazi, the man known as Jihadi John, was killed by a drone strike in Syria. This latest video by IS seems to show another man trying to take up his mantle”:
“[T]wo well-known forgeries — a purported price list for Yazidi and Christian slaves and an order to withdraw from Iraq — use the label ‘Islamic State of Iraq’ (the Islamic State’s first predecessor to claim the statehood mantle, which it did in 2006). No authentic document I have seen since 2013 uses this label, and it is a very obvious error”:
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