He wasn’t Muslim, black, an immigrant, and “was not groomed by the FBI,” so old Michael Christopher Estes “narrowly foiled terror plot” got little media attention:
Corker proposes replacing presidential certification of compliance with “re-triggered” sanctions ‘should Iran be assessed within one year of a nuclear weapons ‘breakout’:
- Trump’s Iran Policy Puts Spotlight on Congress (Middle East Institute)
“There isn’t any reason in my opinion to decertify it, except for narrow political advantage, or if you really want to have a war…. [T]his just seems like we’re reading Kafka”:
- Trump’s Irrational Hatred of the Iran Deal (The New Yorker)
“Non-Muslim prisoners have been instructed to physically assault Muslim prisonersâ€, and once a guard unwittingly instructed “another Muslim to commit the assault”
A 24-year-old is imprisoned incommunicado in her parents house under a court order while the court decides whether or not she has a right to choose her religion or whom to marry:
Despite allegations of anti-Muslim discrimination the drill instructor “was still in charge of Siddiqui’s training. [He] and a battalion commander face courts martial“:
“An already disturbing case about a 17-year-old Muslim girl killed as she walked to her mosque took another unsettling turn after an indictment alleged the victim was raped as well”:
In Syria, the SDF “alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias … fighting Islamic State inside Raqqa since June … said it would capture the last Islamic State areas in the city within hours” …
… while in Iraq, “Kurds consider [Kirkuk] the heart of their homeland[,] … cleansed of Kurds and settled with Arabs under Saddam to secure control of the oil that was the source of Iraq’s wealth”:
