News and Analysis (9/7/20)

“Muslim minorities in Montenegro … felt threatened” and Muslims in neighboring states feared “another genocide” when the then incumbent, now defeated, Democratic Party of Socialists “inflamed ethnic tensions to take attention away from corruption scandals”:

• How the Use of Ethnonationalism Backfired in Montenegro (Aljazeera)

“Dr Kafeel Khan was released on Tuesday after spending seven months in jail for criticising anti-Muslim citizenship law.” He accused his captors of “physical torture”:

• India: How a Muslim Doctor Was Incarcerated for Raising His Voice (Aljazeera)

An inconsistently applied concern for aesthetics is the government’s transparent excuse to deprive Athwajan miners their livelihood:

• Kashmir’s Banned Stones—Part III: The Athwajan Tragedy (Kashmir Observer)

The “rallying cry of violent Hindutva action and has preceded several lynchings” on the 40-minute long recording of the transmission from the victim’s phone clearly points to murder, yet “the police has only registered a robbery case”:

• ‘Say Jai Shri Ram’, Killers of Muslim Man in NCR Said, Police Deny Murder Was Hate Crime (The Wire)

“The Israeli government is opposing a petition in the country’s Supreme Court by 40 citizens which says officers responsible for severe rights violations must not be given training by the Israeli Police”:

• In Israel, a Demand That Indian Police Coming for Training Be Screened for Kashmir Abuses (The Wire)

“Conflating Jewish people with the state of Israel as if we are one in the same is itself anti-Semitic” — Stephanie Fox, executive director for Jewish Voice for Peace:

• Condemnation of Linda Sarsour from Biden Campaign Amplifies Conflict Among Democrats (Spectrum News 1)

The House-passed “version of the Defense Spending Bill … repeals the 2002 Iraq Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), which the administration has already used to justify the killing of an Iranian general”:

• Prevent War with Iran (Register-Guard)

India and Iran share concerns over “the prospect of the Taliban regaining their dominant position in Afghanistan and what that would mean for regional security … [a]s the US pushes the intra-Afghan dialogue in Qatar between the  Taliban and the Afghani government”:

• Situation in Ladakh ‘very serious’, says Jaishankar (Times of India)

• India: Charges over Virus Cause Ordeal for Muslim Mission Group (Andalu Agency)

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