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“The Pentagon confirmed the PR firm did work for them…. US law prohibits the government from using propaganda on its population, hence the use of an outside firm to create the content”:
- Pentagon Paid PR Firm $540mn to Make Fake Terrorist Videos (Russia Today)
“The ministry accused Kamal of running armed branches of the group. But the Arab world’s oldest Islamist organisation insists it is committed to peaceful activism”:
“Its lush musical textures notwithstanding, the play poses unsettling questions” about profiling, entrapment, the prosecution of possible predisposition to terrorism, “‘extraordinary measures[ that cross the line of torturing American citizens”:
- Review Two Brothers, One Christian, One Muslim, Try to Bridge Their Worlds in ‘Bars and Measures’ (LA Times)
“[R]efugees must prove that they were forced to leave their country because of  ‘a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group’” …
- How Does the United States Decide Which Refugees to Admit? (Christian Science Monitor)
… and “[f]ar from being a threat, [this Muslim refugee] was willing to lay down his own life to protect an American soldier”:
- The Muslim Refugee Who Saved an American Soldier (Christian Science Monitor)
“Analysts say there isn’t a single known case of a native Bulgarian Muslim joining a Middle Eastern extremist group. But that has not stopped the country’s right-wing politicians from advancing one of Europe’s most anti-Muslim agendas”:
Ankara has ignored Iraq’s call for the withdrawal of unauthorized Turkish troops fighting Daesh in violation of Iraqi sovereignty:
- Iraq, Turkey Summon Each Other’s Ambassadors in Protest (AP / abc News)
“When you are in orbit, there is no country and race” — Iranian space agency chief Mohsen Bahrami:
- Iran and the US: New Partners in Space? (Christian Science Monitor)
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