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Problems: Legal, Flying, Media

New understandings of the law: Not all Americans are equal. Sepia Mutiny has a two articles (1, 2) on how laws are being created ad hoc for Muslims, or how old laws are being re-read to apply in situations that they weren’t meant to. After London, flying has apparently become quite the ordeal. I have missed it so far, but travel season is coming up for me now. Al-Muhajabah Aziz at City of Brass Sepia Mutiny On a slightly lighter note, HijabMan has a wonderful post on how Muslim men do/don’t like a little naked Kate Moss with their prayers.

Torturers For Hire

But didn’t CIA officers have to approve the request? Former FBI supervisory special agent Ali Soufan, writing in an op-ed in the New York Times today, makes this parenthetical point regarding CIA torture: (It’s worth noting that when reading between the lines of the newly released memos, it seems clear that it was contractors, not C.I.A. officers, who requested the use of these techniques.) I’m not sure if that puts a different gloss on Obama’s decision not to prosecute CIA officers, but it’s a point worth noting. [From Torturers For Hire]

Bold Faith Type – King receiving Threats

Faith in Public Life :: Bold Faith Type. The Hill is reporting that Peter King has received threatening phone calls as his controversial hearings on the “radicalization” of the American Muslim community approach. This is contemptible. Such actions have no place in our society. We also hope anti-Islam activists do not seize on these threats to broadly impugn Muslims.