News and Analysis (10/22/18)

“Khashoggi’s brave journalism was inspired in great part by Islam, and indicting it on account of the vile actions of the Saudi regime,” is unjust both “to the memory of a courageous journalist … and … to a global religion that stands apart from the vile actions of … any single state or government”:

• The Saudi Regime Does Not Represent Islam (Al-Jazeera)

“Coming from different ethnic, racial and socio-economic backgrounds, the candidates defied the stereotypes of a monolithic Muslim American community that often prevail in media narratives”:

• These Two Could Soon Be the First Muslim Women to Serve in Congress (The Atlantic)

Australia’s PM is being warned against repeating Trump’s mistake …

• Former US Officials Advise Australia Against Following Trump on Iran (Financial Tribune)

… while his “announcement last week that he was open to Australia moving its mission from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem … delighted Israel, infuriated Palestinians and was seen locally, where he trails in opinion polls, as a naked grab for votes in Wentworth, the most strongly Jewish electorate in the country” …

• Australia’s Jerusalem Ploy Fails to Avoid By-election Beating, Risks Muslim Backlash (Reuters)

… and in the U.S. “the vast majority of anti-Muslim campaigns have ended in failure — even with clearly credible candidates and in places where President Trump is popular”:

• Running Anti-Muslim Campaigns ‘a Losing Strategy,’ Report Finds (Politico)

“As Anglo-Islamic relations blossomed” because of the Anglo-Muslim alliance against their common enemy of Catholic Spain, “the arrival in 1600 of Muhammad Al-Annuri, the Moroccan ambassador to Elizabethan London, is said to have been Shakespeare’s inspiration for Othello”:

• A Portrait of Othello as a Black Muslim Tragic Hero (Al-Jazeera)

“The real reason the Liberal government hasn’t been able to re-establish relations with Iran is due to its adherence to a ‘stupid’ Canadian law allowing the seizure of Iranian assets, says Canada’s recently expelled ambassador to Saudi Arabia”:

• Canada’s Re-engagement with Iran Blocked by Act that Allows Its Assets to Be Seized, Says Retired Envoy (CBC)

“Unlike in other communities, among Muslims, it is easier to marry off educated daughters. In Muslim societies, marriages between low educated males and highly educated females is acceptable”:

• Muslim Girls Less Likely to Drop Out of School than Boys at Higher Education Level (The Print)

The “first planned city in the West Bank built by and for Palestinians” will include a mosque and a church and can proceed to fruition after Israelis reluctantly agreed to allow its citizens to have water:

• A Palestinian-American Billionaire Built a $1.4 Billion Luxury City from Scratch to Be a ‘Marshall Plan’ for Palestine’s eEonomy (Insider)

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