Keith Ellison, the first Muslim in the US congress, says that the FBI and NSA tracking of American Muslims is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 troubling\u00e2\u20ac\u009d because it shows that they are targeted because of their religion, which undermines the nations progress towards freedom …<\/p>\n
… in contrast, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Islam places immense emphasis on privacy in ways that Western governments today have only begun to match with privacy laws.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The \u00e2\u20ac\u0153NSA likely violated the U.S. Constitution, and definitely violated the Qur\u00e2\u20ac\u2122an\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s powerful teachings on privacy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n
A civil rights advocacy group said that Muslims have come a long way in this country, and found acceptance in Metro Detroit, and nation wide, but more effort is needed to eliminate intolerance:<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Brigadier General Moti Almoz said,\u00c2\u00a0<\/span>‘We have been instructed by the political echelon to hit Hamas hard…’ The government had known almost from the beginning that the boys were dead. It maintained the fiction that it hoped to find them alive as a pretext to dismantle Hamas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 West Bank operations …<\/p>\n … and with no Israeli casualties from the rocket barrage from Gaza, \u00c2\u00a0the death toll rises in Palestine\/ Gaza, mostly civilians, as Israel threatens a ground invasion …<\/p>\n … and the UN Secretary-General warns that “the Middle East could not afford “another full-blown war”…<\/p>\n … and the Israeli settlements and expansion continue<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0leading twelve members of the European Union to publish warnings \u00e2\u20ac\u0153urging their citizens to refrain from engaging in business, economic activity and investment in settlements”:<\/p>\n Mustafa Akyol argues that capitalism need not be synonymous with greed, and that, “founded by a merchant (Prophet Muhammad), and directed by a scripture (the Quran) whose longest verse is about how to write a proper loan contract, Islam, at its core, is a capitalist religion”:<\/p>\n The Muslims in the Balkans dismiss ISIL declaration of an Islamic State as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153insane\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, saying that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153saying it lacked any Islamic or realistic aspects\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n Concerned about the number of British Muslims who have joined extremist organisations in Syria, <\/span>Kauser Akhtar<\/span>\u00c2\u00a0wants the Muslims and Non- Muslims to reach out to each other and integrate, saying that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153better communication between different groups is the key to harmony at home\u00e2\u20ac\u009d …<\/p>\n … while Muslims in Britain share their experience on a blog, describing what it means to be a Muslim and British, challenging the stereotypes and bigotry on Islam and Muslims:<\/p>\n In Iraq, the Kurds are fed up as Maliki insists on seeking a third term in office, while the country is falling apart:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Keith Ellison, the first Muslim in the US congress, says that the FBI and NSA tracking of American Muslims is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153 troubling\u00e2\u20ac\u009d because it shows that they are targeted because of their religion, which undermines the nations progress towards freedom … Ellison: Profiling of American Muslims is ‘ Troubling’ (Star Tribune) … in contrast, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Islam […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45555,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/45555"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11850"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11862,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11850\/revisions\/11862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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