News and Analysis (6/23/17)

No, says the Court, you can’t strip someone of his citizenship because he didn’t tell you that he once broke the speed limit without getting a ticket:

• Supreme Court Limits Government’s Power to Revoke Citizenship (The Hill)

“[W]ithin the past nine years, right-wing extremists plotted or carried out nearly twice as many terrorist attacks as Islamist extremists”:

• Most Terrorists in the U.S. Are Right Wing, Not Muslim: Report (Newsweek)

That there’s no peace in the Mideast, doesn’t mean there can’t be peace in the Midwest:

• A Rabbi, a Reverend and an Imam Have a Plan for Peace in Middle America (CNN)

After a memorial for Nabra Hassanen in a Virginia park was conducted, a 24 year old from North Carolina set ablaze flowers and posters commemorating her:

• Washington Memorial for Murdered Muslim Teen Set on Fire (VoA News)

“Black Crows” caricatures terrorists and ignores parallels between ISIL’s abandonment of Palestine and some Arab state efforts at normalisation with Israel:

• On ISIL, Arab TV and Post-ideological Politics (Al-Jazeera)

An analyst claims ISIS decided to destroy an Iraqi treasure because they did not want to be defeated at the place where  Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared himself Caliph:

• Destroying Great Mosque of al-Nuri ‘is Isis Declaring Defeat’ (The Guardian)

A Gulf movement to get rid of Al-Jazeera and free speech:

• New York Times Slams ‘Misguided Attack on Al Jazeera’ (Al-Jazeera)

The lawsuit against a program to deny or delay visas to applicants who donated to Muslim charities or traveled to Muslim-majority countries can proceed:

• US Judge OKs Lawsuit over Once-secret Muslim Vetting Program (ABC News)

According to Harvey Dean’s staff handbook it “does not seek to inhibit individual choice as regards appearance,” yet a supervisor tried to dictate he color of an employee’s scarf:

• Muslim Woman Suing Estate Agent ‘After Being Told Black Hijab Made Her Look Like a Terrorist’ (Independent)

Layla Shoufer