When younger she sought to reassure other Americas that she was a “safe” (i.e., non-practicing) Muslim. Now she let’s them know that she prays, tries to fast, and longs to make the pilgrimage to Mecca:
Gen. Halevi’s remark that killed nine sleeping Palestinian family members by indiscriminately bombing a shack as “such things happen” exhibits a loss of humanity and can be investigated under war crime …
… as does an Israeli soldier being sentenced to only one month’s community service for killing 16-year old Palestinian and wounded five others:
- Israeli Soldier Sentenced over
Killing of Gaza Teen (Al-Jazeera)
After two months of anti-government protests and the announcement of the Prime Minister’s resignation, top leaders warn of no end to chaos:
LGBTQI Muslims “don’t insist that everyone accepts … that Allah loves … [their] LGBTQI identities…. [They] do insist on … the right to live in peace, and to be afforded basic decency, courtesy, respect and consideration”:
In their effort to save the Iran nuclear deal, six European nations are in the process to join
“In Islam, a woman’s money belongs only to her while a man is obligated to spend on his wife and children” but some modern practices make that difficult, the most unnecessary of which is that of expensive weddings”:
“The current speaker of parliament, Ali Larijani, who played a major role in the government increasing energy prices [that sparked recent unrest], has said he will not run in the election”:
- Iran Begins Registering Candidates for Parliamentary Polls (Washington Post)
Both protests and police response were initially peaceful until “youth … full of rage … took things to another level. Things started to escalate when the police started to beat people up”:
