Tunisia’s Ennahda Party achieves what the nation’s secularists never did: they have elected a woman as mayor of the capital city:
As Israel releases Ahed Tamimi from prison it sentences her brother and to make sure no videos of its troops misbehavior ever surface again passes a law penalizing filming its soldiers while on duty with five to ten years’ imprisonment”:
- Ahed Tamimi’s Brother Handed 14-month Prison Sentence (If Americans Knew)
Executives of Indonesia’s two largest Islamic organizations criticize the government’s conviction of a Buddhist woman on blasphemy charges because she complained that that speakers broadcasting the call to prayer were too loud:
- NU, Muhammadiyah Criticize Meiliana Blasphemy Verdict (The Jakarta Post)
The U.S. media rarely reports the Israel’s daily abductions of Palestinians which this past July alone included “69 children, nine women and five journalists” …
- Israeli Forces Abducted 520 Palestinians in July (If Americans Knew)
… because Israel “prefers headlines that make Palestinians sound like instigators and terrorists – and when they don’t, a few well-placed phone calls or tweets will usually do the trick. Mainstream media lives in Israel’s pocket” …
- Why We Urgently Need Alternative News Sources (If Americans Knew)
… which is a shame since reporting can change things, as following widespread reporting of a 3-year-old denied his mother’s presence for his chemo treatments because she is related to a Hamas member, she will now be allowed to join him:
- There’s Hope? Israel Allows Gaza Mother to Accompany Her Toddler to Cancer Treatment (If Americans Knew)
India finally joined every every other Muslim country in banning “triple talaq” divorce after “a Muslim women’s grassroots organization … conducted research into … the custom, its history within India and its lack of legitimacy within Islamic law”:
Modest but fun-loving Muslim women “wearing lightweight, form-fitting ‘burkinis’ that covered all but their faces, hands and feet — rappelled down a waterfall, went for joyrides on a tortuous water slide in a forest, and ziplined, four times, through the trees”:
- Muslim Women Keep the Faith While Traveling — and Ziplining — Around the World (Philadelphia Inquirer)
With the collapse of the rial, Iranians can’t afford international travel …
… but “Iran, Russia, and Turkey [can] escape the sanctions stick” by turning gold which has “no political baggage to carry[,] is already widely … used in Iran, Russia, and Turkey” and is sanctioned by Islamic law:
A former CIA counter-terrorism specialist and military intelligence officer says Israel is greater threat to U.S. national security than Russia. Powerful Americans will do anything a self-professed Mossad agent says, “including literally dropping their pants”:
- Giraldi: Why Confronting Israel Is Important (CNI / If Americans Knew)
“Her new EP, ‘Barbarican,’ addresses her feelings as a Syrian-American woman who is grateful for the freedoms she has in the U.S. but demands more from the so-called greatest nation on Earth”:
- Mona Haydar Is a Muslim, a Rapper and a Woman Who Doesn’t Need Saving (Huffington Post)
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