News and Analysis (6/7/17)

DoE says it is Constitutional for “any public school student” to pray voluntarily “with fellow students during the school day on the same terms that they they may engage in other … speech”:

• Public School Opens Up Rooms for Muslim Prayer During Ramadan. Atheist Group Calls It ‘Reasonable.’ (The Blaze)

ISIS claims responsibility for both attacks:

• Iran Attacks Leave 12 Dead at Parliament and Khomeini Mausoleum (BBC)

The series “Black Crows” seems to take aim not only at ISIS’s violence, but the intolerant interpretation of Islam that underlies it …

• With Ramadan Miniseries, Arab TV Takes on ISIS (Christian Science Monitor)

… while Gulf States embracing that interpretation and warming up to Israel gang up on Qatar for respecting elected governments in Palestine and Iran …

• Arab Nations Cut Ties to Qatar as Unrest in the Region Grows (Christian Science Monitor)

… while Trump tries to have it both ways praising the crackdown and calling for unity at the same time:

• UAE Turns Screw on Qatar, Threatens Sympathizers with Jail (Reuters)
• Qatar Row: Trump Claims Credit for Isolation (BBC)

In England the body counts, the arrests, and the threats to human rights continue to mount …

• London Attack: Death Toll Rises After Body Found in Thames (BBC)
• British Police Arrest Man in London Bridge Attack Investigation (Reuters)
• Theresa May: Human Rights Laws Could Change for Terror Fight (BBC)

… but so do the reports of heroism and human kindness:

• London Attack: Romanian Baker and Spanish Banker Among Heroes (BBC)
• Londoners Show Kindness and Compassion in Wake of Terrorist Attack (Christian Science Monitor)

“Appalled residents have reached out to support the Thornaby mosque … after ‘Muslim cowards’ was sprayed in large letters on the side if their building”:

• Community Has Amazing Response to Disgusting Anti-Islam Graffiti on Mosque (Telegraph)

That May rebuked Trump, albeit mildly, “for lying about Khan” reflects that she wants neither to cave in to “reviled” Trump nor to fail to support “popular” Khan:

• Two London Mayors Called Trump’s Muslim Ban Wrong. Why Is He Only Attacking One? (The Intercept)

When an Iranian actor called her a “moron” for saying, “There would be no deadly terror attacks in the UK if Muslims didn’t live there,” she proved him right by calling him “an Indian”:

• Breitbart Editor Says She Was Fired for Anti-Muslim Tweet in Wake of London Terror Attack (Independent)

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