Issue 43: Friday, 17 Sep 2021

THIS WEEK IN DC — 

U.S. Drone Strike in Kabul Mistakenly Killed Civilians,
Not Terrorists, Pentagon Says

— Capitol Police Arrest Man With Machete And Bayonet In Pickup Painted With Swastika Near DNC HQ; U.S. Says Federal Employees Must Be Vaccinated By Nov. 22; DHS Warns Of Potential For Violence Surrounding The 'Justice For J6' Rally In Intelligence Brief, Official Says; Medicare Drug Pricing Reform Fails In Committee; Biden Announces A Defense Deal With Australia In A Bid To Counter China; Supreme Court Job Approval Sinks To All-Time Low, Poll Shows; DHS: Extremists Used TikTok To Promote Jan. 6 Violence; France Recalls Its Ambassadors To The U.S. And Australia To Protest Biden’s Submarine Deal.; Federal Judge Blocks Biden Administration From Expelling Migrant Families Under Public Health Order. 

IN THIS ISSUE

  • Featured Issue: Blinken Defends Biden
  • ICYMI: The Forums at MPAC: State of American Muslim Civic Life: 20 Years After 9/11

Blinken Defends Biden
By: Lubna Hassan Heikal, MPAC Policy Intern

Image credit: Olivier Douliery/Reuters
 

 

Two decades after the tragic events of 9/11, the Biden Administration made good on its promise to withdraw all U.S. military forces in Afghanistan, ending the longest war in American history.  Before the withdrawal was complete, the Taliban began taking control of city after city and one province after another. Sadly, the withdrawal left the American citizens and Afghan allies behind. Critically, women and girls along with religious minorities including the Hazaras are vulnerable to human rights violations and abuse.

Read the full article—>

 

Upcoming:

 

Next month, the trial begins against the neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and hate groups who organized the attack on Charlottesville. MPAC is proud to partner with Integrity First for America -- the organization backing the brave Charlottesville community members in their lawsuit against the violent racists who invaded their city to spread violence and terror.

MPAC President, Salam Al-Marayati, will be speaking on September 30 at a virtual rally in support of IFA's groundbreaking legal battle for justice and accountability.

Register—>
 

 

 

ICYMI:

State of the American Muslim Civic Life: 20 Years After 9/11

MPAC’s Director of Policy and Government Relations Mohammad Ali sat down with Suhail Khan and Hamid Khan to discuss the reactive measures taken in the post-9/11 climate and their unintended consequences for American Muslims. 

Watch the webinar -->
 

 

  • ICYMI: MPAC President, Salam Al-Marayati, speaks with KPCC on what Muslim and Arab advocacy has looked like in the twenty years since 9/11
  • MPAC President Salam Al-Marayati quoted in Columbia Journalism Review’s "Hindsight and the 9/11 anniversary coverage"
     

 

 

GOOD TO KNOW

  • Khalid J. Qazi, inaugural president and senior adviser of the Muslim Public Affairs Council of WNY reflects on 9/11 in "Twenty years on, an American Muslim reflects on the terror attacks that changed everything" 
  • Robert Saleh's journey to the New York Jets began with 9/11 epiphany
  • Why Hispanic Heritage Month starts in the middle of September
  • On Yom Kippur, Jerusalem's most sacred piece of property must be a place of peace 
  • Being demonised has not stopped American Muslims’ impressive rise
  • Muslim Americans reported hate incidents nationwide on 9/11 anniversary
     

 

- THIS WEEK IN HISTORY - 

Sep 14, 786 - Founder of Baghdad, Harun al-Rashid, becomes the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother Al-Hadi; Sep 17, 642 - Muslim forces under Amr ibn al-'As conquer Alexandria; Sep 17, 1730 - Ottoman Turkish coup under Mahmud I; Sultan Ahmed III flees.

 

Sep 12, 1787 - American statesman George Mason suggests the addition of a Bill of Rights to the Constitution modeled on previous state declarations, but the motion is defeated; Sep 12, 1928 - Hurricane in Florida kills 6,000; Sep 14, 1752 - Britain and the British Empire (including the American colonies) adopt the Gregorian Calendar; Sep 14, 1814 - Francis Scott Key pens the poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry", later known as "The Star-Spangled Banner" while witnessing the bombardment of Fort McHenry from a ship in Baltimore harbor; Sep 15, 1981 - US Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves first Woman Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor; Sep 16, 1620 - The Mayflower departs Plymouth, England, with 102 Pilgrims and about 30 crew for the "New World"; Sep 17, 1787 - The US Constitution is signed by delegates at the Philadelphia Convention; Sep 18, 1793 - US President George Washington lays the cornerstone of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C.; Sep 16, 1987 - Pope John Paul II's ends his Los Angeles tour with an interfaith meeting at Dodger Stadium with leaders of Judaism, Islam, Buddhism and Hinduism.
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