Bahrain has revoked citizenship for Ayatollah Isa Qasim. He is accused of encouraging sectarian divisions. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards warned the response to this would be armed resistance:
The political rhetoric that blames Muslims for terrorism is “designed to distract the public’s attention from the root cause of the problem: continued U.S. interventionism in the Middle East and Afghanistan”, is inaccurate and further erodes the freedoms of American citizens:
- Interventionism, Not Islam Is the Problem (Future of Freedom Foundation)
“ISIS did not exist until Bush went into Iraq; ISIS would not have expanded into Libya and Africa if we (along with NATO) didn’t destabilize the nation”:
- Can We Stop Talking About ‘Radical Islam’ and Get to the Elephant in the Room? (Huffington Post)
The Iranian government has arrested 10 persons allegedly connected to the Islamic State. The government says that the country been a target for terrorist plots, and that these individuals were planning on carrying out an attack:
The media widely referred to the Orlando shooting as the “worst mass shooting in US-History,” but the mass shooting at Wounded Knee was six times more deadly. That it was perpetrated by the government only makes it a more shamefully unjust taking of civilian life:
- Moya-Smith: Orlando Was a Mass Shooting. So Was Wounded Knee (Indian Country)
Attempting to reprimand a woman on a bus in Great Britain for speaking a “different language,” a man showed that he is not familiar with the languages of his own country:
“[M]any Americans have not been exposed to the positive messages of moderate Muslim organizations because they receive so little media coverage”:
The US is meticulously screening the prospective Syrian refugees. Though it promised 10,000, it is limited by the speed at which multiple agencies can process the applicants:
- The U.S. Likely Won’t Deliver on Promise to Resettle 10,000 Syrian Refugees (Huffington Post)
- The World’s Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (Economist)
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