The objectification of refugees: We must not lose our humanity in search of a headline
Middle East EyeIn reporting from refugee camps, there is a fine line between raising awareness and treating war-scarred refugees as if they were performers in a circus freak show.
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The Travel Ban Shows What Happens When the Supreme Court Trusts Trump
The New York TimesA year ago, the Supreme Court upheld, by a 5-4 vote, President Trump’s imposition of a ban on travel from several predominantly Muslim countries. The court’s decision was gravely disappointing the day it was handed down. A year later, it looks even worse.
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The Tragedy of Egypt's Mohamed Morsi
The AtlanticMohamed Morsi was a deeply flawed but democratically elected president. His death shows how much his country has lost.
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Algeria's Hirak marches on in the face of official warnings
Al MonitorProtest movements in Algeria are ongoing, and proving resistant to efforts to hijack them to suit undemocratic agendas.
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Muslim Health Care for All
Foreign PolicyReligious communities in the United States are working independently and internally to provide free health care and overcome anti-immigrant sentiment.
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Australia repatriating 8 youth from Islamic State families
APEight children of two slain Islamic State group fighters had been removed from Syria in Australia’s first organized repatriation from the conflict zone, Australia’s prime minister said on Monday.
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Anti-Islamic extremist permanently excluded from entering UK
The GuardianA prominent anti-Islamic extremist whose organisation is being investigated in Austria over links to the Christchurch shooting suspect has apparently been permanently excluded from entering the UK.
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'Shame and humiliation': Aceh's Islamic law violates human rights
Al JazeeraAceh, on the northern tip of Sumatra, is one of Indonesia’s most religiously conservative areas, and is the only part of the archipelago to impose penalties on its residents under Islamic law. Punishments under Sharia are rooted in cultural traditions and few are willing to speak publicly against it.
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A School With No Heat or Computers but Many College-Bound Students. Mostly Girls.
The New York TimesIn a a school in rural Afghanistan where there is no electricity, heat, working computers or copy machines and one teacher said she has fewer books than students, 60 of 65 graduates this year, many of whom have illiterate parents, are set to attend college next year.
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Morsi’s death in Egypt puts diminished Muslim Brotherhood back in spotlight
Los Angeles TimesThe dramatic courtroom collapse and death of Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first democratically elected president, has provided a stark reminder of how much his now-outlawed Muslim Brotherhood movement has been reduced since the military abruptly removed him from office in 2013.
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Nearly half of Tory members would not want Muslim PM – poll
The GuardianThe poll, carried out by YouGov for the anti-racism group Hope Not Hate, also found that more than two-thirds of Tory members believe the myth that parts of the UK are under Sharia law, and 45% think some areas are not safe for non-Muslims.
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Operation Ayatollah Moneybags
Foreign PolicyWith tensions rising in the Persian Gulf, the Trump administration has ratcheted up its sanctions against Iran to an unprecedented level, intensifying an existing banking blockade. But the White House has also selected new targets, including by placing personal sanctions on the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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Mohamed Morsi’s death and the West's hypocrisy
Middle East EyeConsumed by their own narrow interests, writes Professor Alain Gabon, Western leaders cannot be trusted to support genuine democracy in the Middle East.
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Protests in Indian cities after Muslim man beaten to death
Al JazeeraProtests were held in various parts of India on Wednesday following the lynching of a Muslim man, with people demanding an end to what they termed as “lynch terror”.
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India rejects critical US religious freedom report
Al JazeeraIndia has hit out at a report by the United States saying religious intolerance was growing under its right-wing government, setting off a new spat ahead of a visit by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
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The fight over Trump’s travel ban continues a year after Supreme Court ruling
The Columbus DispatchA year after the Supreme Court upheld President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting travel here from certain countries — widely criticized as a “Muslim ban” — activists are still fighting it in the courts and many families remain separated.
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UN rights chief: Relatives of ex-IS fighters should go home
APThousands of relatives of former foreign fighters in the Islamic State group should be repatriated, the U.N. human rights chief said Monday, insisting children in particular have suffered “grievous violations” of their rights — a challenge to European and other countries that have been reticent about taking back jihadis and their relatives.
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Trump's Muslim ban: US lawmakers vow to repeal 'hateful' order
Middle East EyeActivists and politicians joined forces this week to mark the anniversary of the Supreme Court decision upholding President Trump’s executive order banning immigrants from several Muslim majority countries from entering the US.
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How a Fringe Muslim Cleric From Australia Became a Hero to America’s Far Right
The InterceptFor Islamophobes, Mohamad Tawhidi is something very close to a godsend. A Shia Muslim cleric, raised in Australia and educated in Iran, Tawhidi presents himself as an Islamic reformer who embraces and amplifies far-right warnings that immigration by his fellow Muslims poses an existential threat to Western civilization.
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Pools in France close after women defy burkini ban
Al JazeeraSeven burkini-clad women, accompanied by activists from the Alliance Citoyenne rights group, went to the Grenoble pools on Sunday demanding the right to bathe – despite a municipal ban on the swimwear worn by Muslim women. They said the ban was discrimination.
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Lebanese town bans Muslims from buying, renting property
APThe town of Hadat is a small example of Lebanon’s deeply rooted sectarian divisions that once led to a 15-year civil war that left more than 100,000 people dead. Christian communities feel under siege as Muslims, who tend to have higher birth rates, leave overcrowded areas for once predominantly Christian neighborhoods.
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'Obvious religious hatred': Muslim man in India lynched on video
Al-JazeeraIndian police say they have arrested 11 people over the torture of a Muslim man who later died of his wounds, in the latest suspected lynching in the country by Hindu vigilantes.
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Iraqis welcome Pope Francis' plan to visit in 2020
Al MonitorMuslim leaders in Iraq are joining Christians in expressing their enthusiasm for Pope Francis’ planned visit next year.
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Malaysia reopens probe into kidnapping of Shia activist, pastor
Al JazeeraMalaysia’s government has set up a special taskforce to reinvestigate the kidnappings of two activists – Amri Che Mat and Raymond Koh – after the country’s human rights commission blamed the police’s intelligence branch for the abductions..
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