” Israeli forces on Saturday used live rounds, rubber bullets and tear gas on the protesters, killing three 17-year-old boys, and wounding at least 207 people”:
“HijrahFest is like a pious version of the US’ SXSW where, instead of music, 12,000 festivalgoers network, explore a Muslim-themed trade show … and attend Quranic studies guided by the hijrah community’s top preachers”:
From Asad to MbS, “Arab governments spend millions of dollars on research to shape Western thinking about domestic political activists opposing their rule, some of whom are religious” — Foreign Policy report:
“Amnesty International’s director for French-speaking Canada, said the bill contravenes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which guarantees freedom of thought, conscience and religion”:
“[T]he first female president of the Islamic Society of North America” says Muslim women are “shedding that narrow congregational model [inherited form the West] and also rediscovering our history”:
- How New Role Models Are Inspiring Young Muslim Women to Reimagine Their Lives (Religion News Service)
Racists are surprised. The most common first “names in the database” did not include Muhammad, but were “Michael, Daniel, Andreas, Sascha, Thomas, Christian, Manuel, Patrick, David, Jens, Justin, and Sven”:
- Germany’s AfD Disappointed After Database Reveals No Arab, Muslim Names in Top 10 Knife Criminals (Al-Sabah)
The judge “found no proof, as required under a 2013 decision … that the services were a substantial factor in the attacks, and that the plaintiffs’ injuries were a reasonably foreseeable consequence”:
