To the far left Macron’s plan to “influence the organisation of Islamic institutions, … meddle in the training of imams and … weigh in on how Islam in France is to be financed” threatens secularism, but the far right is fine with it:
The French claim that Tariq Ramadan is a flight risk holds no water, and in any case doesn’t explain why he is in solitary confinement and prevented from speaking to his family, even by phone:
- Group Demands Tariq Ramadan’s Immediate Release, Right to Due Process (Free Tariq Ramadan Movement)
“[A]ll media and foreign diplomats were barred from entering the court room during the trial.” Her father said that Israelis “don’t want to show the world it’s just a theatre” and that Israel holds itself “above the law”:
- Ahed Tamimi Returns Before Israeli Show Trial (International Solidarity Movement)
“Community leaders … will know more than government officials will about problems that might be cropping up … [than] government people” and are better placed “to steer somebody who is at risk of taking a wrong path”:
- Fighting Radical Islam in Morocco: “The women scholars here are even more important than men” (The Atlantic)
“Muslim man who was removed from a flight before takeoff in April and interrogated by the FBI after talking on his phone in Arabic”:
- Civil Rights Group Sues Southwest Airlines on Behalf of Muslim Man Removed from Flight (Washington Post)
“Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his ally Russia … [insist that]Â an air strike hit a rebel depot full of chemical munitions”:
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