It’s bad enough when an “expert” witness on terrorism doesn’t know his subject; how much worse when his biases are withheld from the record:<\/p>\n
These Muslim-American\u00c2\u00a0siblings write Islamic children’s books, because they want “young Muslims to see themselves in the books they read”:<\/p>\n
In entertainment, Maz Jobrani thought he could “play anything,” but instead he is “the latest iteration in Hollywood’s long history of racist casting, reducing his religion and culture to a bunch of villainous, cartoonish psychopaths” …<\/p>\n
… while in the world of education, “At a minimum the selectivity and psychology of treating Islam in this way will have a tendency to discourage any better approaches to the subject matter”:<\/p>\n
“The trial, which involved more than 30 former Qaddafi-regime officials, is being severely criticized as both unfair and unprofessional. It could also deepen Libya’s political chaos”:<\/p>\n
Mustafa Akyol explains why an honest look at “jurisprudential facts might help Muslims today to develop a more tolerant attitude toward gays,” citing Islamic scholar Ihsan Eliacik’s reminder that “Islam stands with the downtrodden”:<\/p>\n
Since\u00c2\u00a0Syrian Kurds have been\u00c2\u00a0aided by the US but\u00c2\u00a0targeted by Turkey, it complicates cooperation between the two countries in creating a IS-free zone on the Turkish-Syrian border:<\/p>\n
“I am sorry that my precious listeners in Iran will be denied my music for sometime, but I will not apologise for performing in Palestine,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Sami Yusuf’s after his music was banned for performing in Nazareth:<\/p>\n
“The U.S. Government, its allies and … apologists constantly propagate standards that have no purpose other than to legitimize all of their violence while de-legitimizing [that of]\u00c2\u00a0their enemies in the ‘war’they have declared”:<\/p>\n