News and Analysis (3/4/17)

The David Horowitz Freedom Center not only funded the foreign candidate, but “failed to disclose the grants to Wilders’s political party in its annual tax return“:

• California Nonprofit May Have Violated Tax Law by Donating to Anti-Muslim, Far-Right Dutch Candidate (Intercept)

“We assess that most foreign-born, US-based violent extremists likely radicalized several years after their entry to the United States, limiting the ability of screening and vetting officials to prevent their entry“:

• To Catch a Terrorist: Why extreme vetting may be an outdated solution (Christian Science Monitor)

“Ordinary Muslims are kind and try to help however they can —  they’re often first on the scene, rescuing the injured and taking them to hospitals”:

• Egyptian Priest Praises Muslim Support of Threatened Christians  (Catholic News Service)

Canby’s remarks underscore the debt that Western civilisation owes to the Islamic world, and she notes …[,] “Without Baghdad in the ninth and 10th century, we wouldn’t know any of these things”:

• New York Museums Pull Picasso, Extend Muslim Art Shows in Divisive Cultural War on Prejudice in Trump’s America (South China Morning Post)

A “stupid, Islamophobic, hateful, [and] bigoted” legislator presumes to teach young Muslims about their own religion and then refuses to meet with them:

• Oklahoma Rep. to Visiting Muslim Students: ‘Do You Beat Your Wife?’ (Talking Points Memo)

“Evangelicals have mixed their faith with the state, making a kind of religious nationalism. They see it as ‘taking back America,’ as stopping the Muslims from taking over America” — Pastor Bob Roberts:

• Why Evangelicals Are Trump’s Strongest Travel-ban Supporters (Christian Science Monitor)

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