As Trump repeats Saudi lies that Qatar funds terrorism, the Saudis and other Gulf states ignore Tillerson’s pleas to dial back the crisis …
… and Kuwait seeks to mediate …
- Kuwait Extends Helping Hand to Qatar in Effort to ‘Restore the Normal Relations’ (Christian Science Monitor)
… analyst Abdullah Al-Arian opines that the battle has “little to do with fighting ‘terrorism’ and everything to do with barring all forms of dissent” …
- Qatar-Gulf Crisis: Who Are the ‘Terrorists’? (Al-Jazeera)
… making for what Prof. Edward Moad calls:
- A Dangerous Moment in U.S. Middle East Relations (Minaret of Freedom Institute)
For the Outreach Director of the Falls Church mosque, the senior imam’s unIslamic assertion that FGM is “a way to avoid “hyper-sexuality” was the last straw:
“Both gatherings were peaceful until anti-sharia protesters, a few of whom wore camouflage and helmets, exited the Capitol and exchanged angry words with the counterprotesters” …
… “What the anti-Shariah law protesters didn’t understand about Islam … [is] that Muslims aren’t ‘allowed to govern other people by our religion’” …
… and protesters responding to the hate group’s call found themselves outnumbered 10-1 by counter-demonstrators some of whom carried a “Fascists out of NYC” banner:
“Opposition parties have alleged the crackdown in the name of religion is mainly aimed at silencing political dissent and … [calls] for accountability of the country’s powerful military”:
“[I]t’s only in the last 70 years that Islamic terrorism emerged as a problem … leaving some 1400 years of religious tolerance that usually outdid Christianity”:
- Maher, Islam, and Liberalism’s Blind Spot (Times-Union)
“The Muslim lady holding her hand and supporting her for 20 minutes till the ambulance … arrive[d] … is the real Islam, the media won’t show the real Muslims only shows fake ones”:
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