Paranoia and ignorance leads to the detainment of members of a Pakistani delegation by the Transport Security Administration en route to Washington, all because another passenger “did not feel safe”:

• Military Officers Cancel Trip After Humiliation At US Airport (Dawn)

As an IDF officer was acquitted on the charges of killing a 13-year-old Palestinian girl; the military court ruled that he had “not acted unethically” …

• Not Guilty. The Israeli Captain Who Emptied His Rifle Into A Palestinian Schoolgirl (Guardian)

… the State Department and express the view that Hamas’s attack on settlers from Kiryat Arba and Beit Haggai. was really aimed at the “peace process”:

• Hamas Targets Israeli-Palestinian Talks By Killing Four Israelis (Christian Science Monitor)

““By preventing this mosque from being built, America is doing us a big favor.” — Taliban operative Zabihullah:

• The Taliban vs. the Mosque (Newseek)

In the face of increasing hate crimes, a spokesman for the planned Nashville Islamic center says, “that there should be a law enforcement presence at prayer services but that it should be police, not the FBI” …

• Muslims Debate FBI Presence At Mosques (Washington Post)

… but we have received an an unpublished “special message” from American Task Force on Civil Rights and Elections’ chairman Agha Saaed that, contrary to the above cited article, he “NEVER welcomed FBI’s presence in the Nashville mosque.”

You catch more flies with “non-coercive intelligence interviewing” than you can with waterboarding:

• Guide Tells How Terrorism Suspect Became Informant (Washington Post)

Sharing the archaic view that marriage conflicts with education, lawmakers move to address the problem by taking the right to marry away from young women 15-17, adults under Islamic law but not under Jordanian law:

• Jordan Marriage Law Challenged (al-Jazeera)

“In other parts of Tennessee, including Chattanooga, Knoxville and Memphis, Muslim leaders reported that they had experienced no hostility and saw no reason to increase security”:

• Incidents at Mosque in Tennessee Spread Fear (New York Times)

Pan Arab Research Center in Dubai “estimates advertising spending by financial services companies in the Arab region is likely to grow by 40 percent this Ramadan compared with the previous season”:

• Banks Step Up Ramadan Marketing Campaigns to Spur Growth: Islamic Finance (Bloomberg)

“For the sake of the values we hold dear in this country, we must resist the temptation to fear and hate those we may perceive as ‘the Stranger,’ but instead make a place at the table for all members of the American family”:

• The Spiritual Convergence Of Rosh Hashanah, Eid al-Fitr And 9/11 (Washington Post)

“My Faith, My Voice”, a web forum initiative, enables Muslim Americans to respond directly to controversial issues regarding Muslims in America:

• Muslim Group Wants a Voice on Mosque Debate (Fox)