An Iraqi deputy and son of the tribe’s leader said that the mass killings were tantamount to genocide and were an attempt by IS to wipe out the Albu Nimr tribe.

Ghazi Al-Kaoud told the pan-Arabic newspaper “Asharq Al-Awsat” on November 4 that IS gunmen were targeting the Albu Nimr tribe in a “policy of genocide” out of revenge because many tribesmen were members of the Awakening (Sahwat) movements fighting IS.

http://www.rferl.org/content/islamic-state-iraq-anbar-genocide-albu-nimr-tribe/26677344.html – 11/7/2014.

However, with good reason, MEMO has been criticized as a sometimes openly anti-Semitic “Islamist news outfit” and a “hate publisher” with close ties to Hamas. MEMO’s director Daud Abdullah has been described as an “extremist” with sympathies for jihadi terrorist groups, and the site’s senior editor Ibrahim Hewitt has been characterized as a “Muslim hardliner” and “one of Britain’s most prominent Islamic firebrands.” Hewitt also serves as the chairman of Interpal, a UK-based fund that is widely viewed as supporting Hamas and has been designated as a terrorist entity by the US government. MEMO’s Palestine Book Awards “Trustees” include not only several prominent “critics” of Israel, but also the outspoken Hamas supporter Azzam Tamimi who has repeatedly expressed his desire to become a “martyr” and asserted that Hamas “is the true representative of the Palestinian people.”

http://brandeiscenter.com/blog/the-hamas-book-club/ – 11/7/2014.

“I was selected as the consensus candidate of the Consultative Committee for the post of UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories earlier this year,” Cerna wrote in a comment on the blog of the European Journal of International Law, “but the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the League of Arab States both officially opposed me, which killed my candidacy.”

http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2014/11/06/georgetown-prof-unhrc-killed-my-candidacy-for-not-being-partial-like-william-schabas/ – 11/6/2014

Related:

http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/US-international-law-professor-lead-candidate-to-replace-Falk-341257 – 2/12/2014.

According to Bernard Haykel, a professor at Princeton University whose research focusses on Saudi Arabia’s Salafi movement, beards are sunnah, recommended but not required of Muslim men. Beard styles are a subject of intense discussion among Islamic scholars, Haykel told me when I spoke to him by phone. The specific length of a beard, the way it is trimmed, whether or not it is dyed: these distinctions make a deliberate statement about the wearer’s religious affiliations and the degree of his piety—or the degree of piety that he wishes to have imputed to him. “The Muslim Brotherhood wear it in a particular way,” Haykel said. “The Salafis wear it in a different way. The Hanafis wear it in yet another way.”

http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/a-saudi-woman-is-threatened-after-tweeting-about-beards – 2/19/2014

Let’s start with what I’m not going to do.

I’m not going to accuse you of staying silent in the face of the horrific atrocities being committed around the world by your co-religionists. Most of you have loudly and unequivocally condemned groups like the Islamic State (ISIS), and gone out of your way to dissociate yourselves from them. You have helped successfully isolate ISIS and significantly damage its credibility.

I’m also not going to accuse you of being sympathetic to fundamentalists’ causes like violent jihad or conversion by force. I know you condemn their primitive tactics like the rest of us, maybe even more so, considering the majority of victims of Islamic terrorists are moderate Muslims like yourselves. On this, I am with you.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ali-a-rizvi/an-open-letter-to-moderat_b_5930764.html – 10/07/2014