News and Analysis (3/4/18)

“Millennial Muslim women are set to disrupt, and they’re just getting started”:

“The aftermath of an al Qaeda inspired terrorist attack in Indonesia ‘ inspired his book blaming religion for “much of what is wrong with the world today,” but with more experience and study he has decided, “The premise is entirely wrong!”:

“The study shows a vast media empire endlessly picking on a small Australian minority before a huge audience, without offering the victims any way of defending their names and religion before that audience”:

He “told relatives he was ‘doing the country a favour’ after ramming his car into the victims in Leicester on 20 September – five days after the Parsons Green Tube bombing” …

… “This rising terrorist threat is the consequence of the increasingly confrontational tone of online far-right rhetoric, combined with the almost universal extreme-right belief that a civil war between Islam and the West is coming”:

• Far-right Extremists Preparing Civil War on Islam in UK: Report (Economic Times)

“The condition for negotiating Iran’s missiles is the destruction of the nuclear weapons and long-range missiles of the United States and Europe” — Iranian Armed Forces spokesman Masoud Jazayeri:

• Iran Calls on U.S., Europe to Scrap Nuclear Arms, Missiles (Reuters)

Israel demolished “two donor-funded classrooms (3^rd and 4^th grade), serving 26 Palestinian school children …on the outskirts of Jerusalem … on grounds of lack of Israeli-issued permits, which are nearly impossible to obtain” …

• UN Humanitarian Coordinator Statement on Israeli Destruction of Schools (If Americans Knew)

… and destroyed water pipelines without notice that Palestinian landowners “recently recovered … from the Israeli settlers following a decision that was announced by the Israeli Supreme Court in 2014”:

• Israel Destroys Water Pipes in Jordan Valley (Middle East Monitor)

“The UK-based SOHR says more than 141 civilians have died but Turkey denies this, saying only combatants are targeted”:

• Afrin Offensive: 36 Pro-Syrian Government Soldiers ‘Killed in Turkish Air Strike’ (BBC)