“Some senior figures detained in last [week]’s purge in Saudi Arabia were beaten and tortured so badly during their arrest or subsequent interrogations that they required hospital treatment”:
- Senior Saudi Figures Tortured and Beaten in Purge (Middle East Eye)
“[A]l-Hariri warned on Sunday Lebanon was at risk of Gulf Arab sanctions … and said he would return to Lebanon within days to affirm he had resigned as the country’s prime minister”:
Teary-eyed after the father’s gesture, [the judge] called for a break.” Later, members of the perpetrator’s and victim’s “families, sobbing, joined the pair for a group hug. The courtroom audience watched, transfixed”:
- Why This Father Hugged the Man Who Helped Kill His Son (Washington Post)
A New Jersey minister is impressed by young Muslim students at al-Ghazaly High School who respond to hateful comments with education:
“Following their release to freedom though, many hostages like McGowan or Coleman and Boyle retain the religious views they developed while in captivity”:
- Why People Held Captive by Terrorist Groups Sometimes Convert to Islam (Business Insider)
“The stories of the 2.5 million Muslims who traveled to Europe to fight for the allies during the first world war are finally being told”:
“People would say ‘Oh, it must be hard for you to live in Indonesia [as a Muslim woman],’ and I would reply ‘we may not have Disneyland but we’re fine.’ Indonesia is not that bad, it looks bad only on Twitter”:
- Sex, Pork and Jihad: Heard the One About Indonesia’s Hijab-wearing Muslim Comic? (South China Morning Post)
The dairy farmer allegedly “was thrashed and shot dead by a crowd of cow vigilantes when he was transporting four cows to his native village”:
- Muslim Man Killed by Cow Vigilantes: Family (The Hindu)
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