Earlier the devout Muslim teenager “had organized and participated in scores of protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad…. After the IS takeover[,] horrified by the group’s approach to the faith, its draconian dictates, and its rules prohibiting girls from studying,” she\u00c2\u00a0“formed this small team to fight IS”:<\/p>\n
After “a rebuke from the Islamic affairs ministry” the hot-headed Saudi preacher has apologized, but the comedian\u00c2\u00a0still faces\u00c2\u00a0“IS supporters on social media, with some literally calling for his head.” He says, “[I]t is the duty of artists to reveal the truth – even if they have to pay a price for doing so”:<\/p>\n
Deeyah Khan aims to explain why British women join ISIS… “[a] great deal of racist violence is […] directed at Muslim women, who are more visible than men. This can leave women isolated and fearful; hyper-aware of their identity, which marks them out for hostility” …<\/p>\n
… yet PM David Cameron continues to isolate Muslims from the rest of the society by connecting Islam with terrorism …<\/p>\n
… and the struggle for Muslims in Dewsbury, England, against marginalization continues:<\/p>\n
Former President Morsi’s trial is postponed and the regimes’ Protest Law, banning all protests with more than five people without\u00c2\u00a0prior permission, is challenged by protesters:<\/p>\n
“Ahmed Mansour, one of Jazeera’s best-known journalists, was released after Egypt was unable to dispel concerns about the extradition process, the Berlin public prosecutor’s office said in a statement.” This came after an earlier foreign ministry statement against extradition to any country to face a death sentence”:<\/p>\n