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[Regnum] The spiritual leader of the Muslims of Dagestan, Akhmad Abdullayev, said that a fatwa (theological and legal opinion) on the ban of the niqab in the republic will be issued in the near future.
“The niqab – our workers are working on this today – we will issue a fatwa banning the niqab,” Abdullayev said at a meeting between the head of the republic, Sergei Melikov, and activists.
According to the spiritual leader, the fatwa will be issued this evening or tomorrow, July 2. Abdullayev emphasized that if a man does not want to show his wife's face, then he should keep her at home. At the same time, the lifting of the ban on the niqab is not planned until there is peace and tranquility in the region, the spiritual leader noted.
Niqab is a type of hijab with a slit for the eyes. The face of a woman wearing a niqab is not visible.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, the day before, the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, said that wearing niqabs in Russia should be banned. He asked why the niqab is banned in Asia, but not in Russia.
Before this, presidential adviser and chairman of the Presidential Council for Civil Society and Human Rights Valery Fadeyev proposed banning the wearing of the niqab in Russia on May 19. He recalled that this type of clothing is prohibited in a number of Central Asian countries. Banning the niqab is necessary to reduce the risk of extremism, he explained.
In response, the deputy chairman of the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Russia, the mufti of Moscow, Ildar Alyautdinov, said on May 22 that the ban on the niqab may not please the countries of the East, with which Moscow is strengthening relations. At the same time, he referred to freedom of religion and observance of religious canons.
This statement caused controversy among representatives of the Muslim community. On the Islam. news portal, the author Aidar Bariyev recalled that the niqab has nothing to do with religion, while clothing that covers the face makes it difficult to identify a person. He recalled that wearing a niqab is a custom associated with the need to protect the face from sandstorms in the desert. In Russia, there is no need to wear such clothing.
On June 11, State Duma deputy Mikhail Matveyev (CPRF faction) announced that he had sent a bill to the government to ban niqabs in the country. He called it a matter of Russia's security.
On June 20, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon signed laws banning the import, sale, and wearing of clothing in the republic that is alien to the culture of the people. Thus, hijabs were banned. The head of the republic ordered the development of a design for national clothing that adheres to the religious and ethical needs of Tajik women.
[BBC] When Fatima Payman crossed the Senate floor to vote against her government she knew it would come with consequences.
The Australian Labor party has strict penalties for those who undermine its collective positions, and acts of defiance can lead to expulsion - a precedent with a 130-year history.
The last time one of its politicians tested the waters while in power was before Ms Payman was born.
But last Tuesday, the 29-year-old did just that - joining the Green party and independent senators to support a motion on Palestinian statehood.
Officially the Australian government supports a two-state solution, but did not back the motion after trying - and failing - to insert a condition that any recognition should be “as part of a peace process”.
Within hours, Ms Payman had been temporarily suspended from her party room, by the end of the week it would become indefinite - after she publicly vowed to cross the floor again if given the opportunity.
"By her own actions and statements, Senator Payman has placed herself outside the privilege that comes with participating in the federal parliamentary Labor Party caucus," a government spokesperson said.
Prime Minister and Labor leader Anthony Albanese was more concise: “No individual is bigger than the team.”
On Monday, Ms Payman responded by saying she had been "exiled" – explaining that she had been removed from caucus meetings, group chats and all committees.
The dismissal of the senator, elected in what was billed as Australia’s most diverse parliament to date, has drawn a mixed response and raised questions - mainly, whether it’s practical or fair for politicians to toe the line on issues affecting their communities.
Each step 'felt like a mile'
Ms Payman stands out in Australia’s parliament.
The first and only hijab-wearing federal politician, she has been described as the embodiment of some of the nation’s most marginalised: a young woman, a migrant, a Muslim.
She recounted crossing the Senate floor as "the most difficult decision" of her political career, adding that each step of her short walk had “felt like a mile”.
However, the 29-year-old said she was “proud” of what she had done, and “bitterly disappointed” others hadn't followed.
"I walked with my Muslim brothers and sisters who told me they have felt unheard for far too long," she said.
The Israeli military launched a campaign to destroy the Hamas group which runs Gaza in response to an unprecedented Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October, during which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.
More than 37,900 people have been killed in Gaza since then, including 23 over the past 24 hours, according to the territory's Hamas-run health ministry.
This has become a volatile political issue in Australia that all sides have sought to carefully manage.
As has been the case in countless other countries, there have been protests from both Jewish and Muslim communities, as well as a sharp uptick in Islamophobia and antisemitism.
The senator's move has drawn both praise and criticism.
Anne Aly - who became the first Muslim woman to be elected in Australia’s parliament in 2016 - and has been a fierce advocate for an end to the conflict in Gaza, said she disagreed with Ms Payman’s approach.
“I choose to do things in a way I think will make a material difference on the ground. Fatima chooses to do it her way," she told news outlet the ABC.
But Josh Burns - a Jewish Labor MP from Melbourne - who has a different world view from Ms Payman when it comes to issues such as Palestinian statehood, has been one of her biggest supporters.
“Parliamentarians come from different communities and backgrounds, and trying to balance all those perspectives isn't easy, but we must be an example to the Australian community about how to debate difficult issues respectfully.”
The nation’s Islamic bodies have also issued a joint statement describing Ms Payman’s actions as “courageous” and calling on the Labor party to “echo the voices of the people it represents”.
"Political calculations and attempts to walk both sides have devastating consequences in Palestine and will ultimately end in failure,” it read.
But Mr Albanese called the resolution a "stunt", adding: "We need actually real solutions... this stunt from the Greens was designed to put Fatima Payman in a difficult position. It was designed to do that."
Mr Albanese’s penalty against Ms Payman has been more lenient than the complete expulsion that party rules require.
And he’s left the door open for her to re-enter the fold if she’s willing to change course: “Fatima Payman is welcome to return to participating in the team if she accepts she's a member of it,” he said in an interview on Monday.
‘Not a token representative’
Australian politicians have voted against their own beliefs to fall in line with party politics before.
Queer MPs - including current Foreign Minister Penny Wong - felt a similar conflict in the Labor caucus back in the days when it officially opposed gay marriage.
It’s an issue that has opened Ms Wong up to personal attacks, but she’s remained adamant that quiet advocacy from within the party - rather than public criticism - is the preferred route.
And she says it was a decade of doing just that which saw same-sex marriage legalised.
“Even when we disagree, we have those arguments internally, as you saw over many years in the marriage equality debate. That’s what I did, and I think that’s the right way to go about it,” she told the ABC.
But when asked whether she should have followed precedent, Ms Payman said: “It took 10 years to legislate same-sex marriage... These Palestinians do not have 10 years."
The contrasting approaches represent the changing demands of the Australian public, according to Kos Samaras - one of the nation’s leading pollsters.
He says a growing cohort of young, multicultural voters are increasingly aligning themselves with politicians who aren’t afraid to take a stance on causes their constituents are “passionate about”.
He also argues that migrant communities are no longer willing to accept political messaging that effectively urges them to “keep their head down”.
“Australia has had a terrible history, whether from a societal perspective or political parties - that whenever someone from a diverse background expresses their view, overwhelmingly they’re told to pull their head in.”
“That’s a formula that kind of works when a new group of people migrate to a country and want to keep a low profile as they’re establishing a new life – it’s not going to work with those migrant’s kids. And that’s exactly who we’re talking about.
“These are people who have grown up in a country that has often made them feel like outsiders, and they’re no longer prepared to keep silent,” he adds, noting recent polling from his team which found that many young Australian-Muslim women feel they lack a political voice.
A refugee whose family fled Afghanistan after it fell to the Taliban in 1996, it’s a sentiment that Ms Payman says guides her politics.
“I was not elected as a token representative of diversity,” she said after her temporary suspension last week.
“I was elected to serve the people of Western Australia and uphold the values instilled in me by my late father.”
Ms Payman says that she believes the government is freezing her out to “intimidate” her into resigning.
But Mr Albanese is adamant that his decision is the right one, while emphasising that it is not about Ms Payman’s “policy position” but rather, her decision to “undermine” her party.
For the time being at least, the young lawmaker has vowed to “abstain from voting on Senate matters… unless a matter of conscience arises where I'll uphold the true values and principles of the Labor Party.”
[IsraelTimes] More than 125 plaintiffs claim that all three countries provided Palestinian terror group with financial, military and tactical support it needed to carry out devastating assault
Victims of Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... ’s October 7 attack on Israel sued Iran, Syria, and North Korea
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[NEWARAB] Two of Israel's biggest left-wing parties announced a merger on Sunday, naming themselves The Democrats, in what has been described as a potentially important move in Israeli politics.
Labor and Meretz signed the formation of the unified party with primaries set to decide which candidates will run for The Democrats in the next general election.
The Labor Party's Yair Golan, who was named The Democrats' secretary-general, said the formation of the left-wing party was essential given the challenges Israelis face with the rising influence of the right and far-right.
"Israel is in its most difficult time and this is the time for decisions - serious security threats, the real danger of annexing millions of Palestinians and the undermining of our delicate fabric of life - all of these require courageous steps. Our public is fighting in the streets to change the face of the country," he said, according to Haaertz.
"Today we have built a framework that will serve the public as best as possible on the way to promoting elections and replacing the most terrible government since the establishment of the state."
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What a terrible choice of name.
The solution to Israel's hard right government isn't the left, it's the moderates. This government has set on fire and destroyed Israel's "Holocaust" protection from criticism that lasted for 50 years. Even antisemitism doesn't work any more.An important talisman against evil, gone forever.
[IsraelTimes] 5 arrested during clashes with police, officer hospitalized; stones hurled at vehicles carrying United Torah Judaism party head Yitzhak Goldknopf and his predecessor Yaakov Litzman
Thousands of ultra-Orthodox demonstrators on Sunday protested in Jerusalem against the conscription of Haredi yeshiva students into the military, with some throwing rocks and clashing with police.
Five people were arrested in clashes, during which protesters also lit fires in the street and attacked the car of Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf.
The demonstrators mostly belonged to the extremist Jerusalem Faction, which numbers some 60,000 members and regularly demonstrates against the enlistment of yeshiva students.
Anger has boiled as the issue of ultra-Orthodox enlistment has returned to the government’s agenda against the background of the ongoing war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Haredim are angry at their own lawmakers who, as members of the coalition, backed a recent move to revive a bill from a previous parliament that would lower the age of exemption from mandatory service for ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students from 26 to 21 and “very slowly” increase their rate of conscription.
Protesters on Sunday carried signs reading, “We will not enlist in the enemy army,” and “We will die and not enlist,” as they blocked an intersection that leads to a heavily ultra-Orthodox area in the capital.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … to preserve his brain - as bombshell study reveals chilling pattern on the brains of vets who committed suicide.
A Navy SEAL's chilling suicide note has been revealed five years after he shot himself in the heart to preserve his brain.
Lt. David Metcalf took his own life inside a garage at his North Carolina home in 2019, arranging a stack of books about brain injuries by his side, the New York Times reports.
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Spec Ops have a rep of using massive amounts of munitions in training between deployments. Maybe some simulators and, at the end of the session, fire the whole thing with energy of a cherry bomb. They already know what an explosion looks like.
[IsraelTimes] Revolutionary Guard aerospace chief Amir Ali Hajizadeh says he doesn’t know how many rockets would be used, but is ‘hopeful’ for opportunity to follow up April barrage of hundreds.
On Friday Iran’s mission to the United Nations vowed “an obliterating war” against Israel if it launches a full-scale offensive against the Hezbollah terror group in Lebanon.
Iran itself launched an unprecedented missile-and-drone strike on Israel on April 14, two weeks after an alleged Israel airstrike near Tehran’s embassy in Damascus killed several senior officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The Iranian strike was almost entirely repelled by Israel, the United States, and other allies, though a 7-year-old girl was seriously injured in the attack.
IRGC Air Force commander: #Iran targeted US' Global Hawk with a missile. We targeted US airbase in Iraq with 13 missiles. In True Promise operation, we fired 300 missiles. We await an opportunity for True Promise II operation in which I do not know how many missiles will be fired pic.twitter.com/zu8rJPcNTH
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
[NEWARAB] Two of Israel's biggest left-wing parties announced a merger on Sunday, naming themselves The Democrats, in what has been described as a potentially important move in Israeli politics.
