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Attempts
to kill two of Nigeria's most
prominent of Muslim leaders,
Sheikh Dahiru Bauch and Muhmmadu
Buhari occurred after the two
declared Boko Haram's actions
"unislamic":
ISIS continues to demolish
both Christian sites in
northern Iraq and Islamic
landmarks that are hundreds of
years old, as the residents of
Mosul watch helplessly:
"Muslims in France have been
largely successful" in integrating
with the French society, yet
Muslims are still "socially and
politically marginalized,
suffering from discrimination":
A survey finds that "42 percent of
Americans believe law enforcement
is justified in using profiling
tactics against Muslim-Americans
and Arab-Americans," especially
after the recent acts of violence,
conducted under the name of Islam:
Throughout the World,
Muslims break the fast and end
Ramadan with Eid prayers ...
... Obama marks Eid Al- Fitr by
describing Muslims as " The fabric
of our nation," noting that "the
message of interfaith peace that
poverty, conflict and disease
affect all of humanity, and not of
just any one faith" ...
... but can the Palestinians hear
that messages over the sounds of
the bombs?
[V]igilante extremists — whose
views on racial and religious
purity evoke the Ku Klux Klan —
are successfully exploiting
[unfounded] fears to spark
deadly anti-Muslim riots ...
... while concentration camps in
Burma highlight a humanitarian
crisis where the Burmese
government dismissed aid groups in
the area, "leaving more than
700,000 people without proper
medical care":
Several Spanish actors speak out,
urging the European Union to join
them in condemning
Israel's bombing of
civilians, as boy band One
Direction's Pakistani-British
Muslim Zayn Malik receives death
threats after expressing his
support for Palestine:
... yet the "U.S.
media
is biased
against Palestinians, using
selective coverage, skewed
opinion, and false balance to
offer implicit support to
Israel’s stance" ...
... and the U.S. Congress wants
to make the "Iron Dome"
defending Israel even more
effective, but won't cut off
funds for Israel's immoral,
ineffective, and
counter-productive aggression in
Gaza; making the moral and
logistical imbalance even more
one-sided ...
... and encouraging Israel's
repitition of the tragic mistake
of its attack on Lebanon in the
1980's:
"Intense
fighting in Benghazi, Libya's
second city, and battles between
rival militias in the capital
Tripoli have pushed the nation
deeper into chaos after two
weeks of the fiercest violence
since the [Western-backed] civil
war which ousted Muammar Gaddafi
in 2011":
A newspaper article attracted
thousands of critical
comments from German politicians
who described the article as "
racist" and demanded an apology
from the Newspaper to German
Muslims:
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