News and Analysis (9/5/17)

He was an honest cop who thought what the department was “doing was wrong—it was completely stupid,” so they came down on him like a ton of bricks and ruined his life:

• The Trials of a Muslim Cop (New Yorker)

“This claim comes just days after the U.S. denied their air assets were targeting the ISIL convoy that consists of 300 combatants and 500 civilians”:

• US Coalition Bombs ISIL Convoy Heading to Deir Ezzor from Lebanon, Claims 85 Dead (Almasdar News)

The world’s largest humanitarian crisis is not the heavily covered floods in Houston or even the not so well covered floods in Nepal but the American-Saudi-British caused disaster in Yemen:

• There’s a Disaster Much Worse than Texas. But No One Talks About It (Guardian)

Yet another example of the FBI turning a confused (and in this particular case brain damaged) young man into  terrorist:

• The Unlikely Jihadi (The Intercept)

“Malala Yousafzai … said her ‘heart breaks’ at the suffering of Rohingya Muslims and urged Myanmar’s leader, a fellow Nobel laureate, to condemn the violence against the Rohingya minority”:

• Myanmar Faces Anger from Muslim World over Rohingya Plight (Washington Post)

Since no knowledgeable person claims Islamic law mandates prepubescent girls must cover their hair, is a prohibition in headscarves any different from a prohibition on lipstick?

• Girls as Young as FIVE Are Wearing Muslim Headscarves to School as Part of Their Official School Uniform (Sun)

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