News and Analysis (8/4/17)

Instead of trying to intimidate a potential aggressor, strike up a friendly conversation with the target:

• New Campaign Teaches How to Help When a Muslim Is Harassed (NPR)

“We could have closed our eyes and we would have thought it was LDS people speaking on that panel”:

• Utah Muslim Women Encourage Honest Dialogue About Islam (KUER)

Discrimination is “not applied evenly. We know sociologically that women experience more discrimination than men”:

• Study: Muslim-American Women More Fearful, Anti-Trump than Muslim-American Men (Sojourners)

“The video for the song titled ‘Dog’ targets Muslim men who act piously by day, but behave like animals towards women once they get behind their computer screens at night”:

• A Video Is Upsetting Both Muslim Conservatives and Islamophobes (Fusion)

Human “rights groups say the unrest is more a reaction to repressive policies, and argue that the new measures may end up pushing some Uighurs into extremism”:

• China’s Muslim Minority Banned from Using Their Own Language in Schools (Independent)

The executive producer says they are introducing a Muslim character in order “to bring in someone who has a totally new perspective on history”:

• How Trump Inspired ‘DC’s Legends of Tomorrow’ to Add Muslim Superhero (Variety)

“52 percent of U.S. Muslims said homosexuality should be accepted by society — an increase of 25 percentage since 2007. Comparatively, only 34 percent of white evangelical Protestants”:

• U.S. Muslims More Accepting of Homosexuality than White Evangelicals (NBC News)

Government approved muftis set up shop in the Metro stations; extremists, freethinkers, and Christians not welcome:

• Religion on the Go: Clerics Use Cairo Subway to Clarify Islamic Doctrine (Christian Science Monitor)

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