News and Analysis (9/18/20)

That Jacob Blake’s father recited a Muslim prayer after the “police gunned down his son in Kenosha” evokes “just how deeply embedded Islam is within the Black community”:

• ‘At the Intersection of Two Criminalized Identities’: Black and Non-Black Muslims Confront a Complicated Relationship with Policing and Anti-Blackness (Time)

If Pompeo “intends to enforce the non-existent U.N. sanctions at midnight GMT on September 20′ … [that[ would entail U.S. warships attacking and confiscating Iranian cargo ships in international waters — as well as non-Iranian vessels suspected of carrying Iranian goods”:

• Is Mike Pompeo Preparing an October Surprise? (Responsible Statecraft)

“If we put the two texts of the normalisation announcement and the deal of the century together, it’s not hard to understand what they mean by saying that Muslims will be praying [only] in the al-Qibli chapel with the lead dome” — Ziyad Ibhais, a researcher on Jerusalem affairs:

• How the UAE-Israel Deal Seeks to Impose a ‘Fait Accompli’ in Jerusalem (Middle East Eye)

There is no evidence that the rumors of an Iranian plan to assassinate  a U.S. diplomat are true, but if they were true, they would be yet more evidence that the Trump policies are failing:

• Rumors of an Iranian Assassination Plot Offer Lessons that Trump Can’t Seem to Learn (Business Insider)

News item for Anglo-American bigots, Muslims came here first, accompanying Spanish conquistadores:

• I’m a Muslim and Arab American. Will I Ever Be an Equal Citizen? (NY Times)

With the courts cracking down on the Trump administration’s illegal actions …

• New York Federal Judge Berates Prosecutors for Mishandling Evidence in Iran Sanctions Case (Jurist)

… will Trump resort to an executive order to implement his “withdrawal from” (i.e., breach of) the JCPOA?

• Trump Eyes Executive Order to Punish Arms Trade with Iran: Report (Aljazeera)

Like Iran, Saudi Arabia has a nuclear energy program.  Unlike Iran, the Saudis have never agreed to international inspections:

• Revealed: Saudi Arabia May Have Enough Uranium Ore to Produce Nuclear Fuel (The Guardian)

Police prevented her from commenting “on a deadly LAPD shooting the year prior” when three of then “aggressively manhandled” her “without any warning,” pushed her to the wall, handcuffed her] and shoved her into another room to humiliate her by stripping off her headscarf:

• Muslim Woman Files Federal Lawsuit over LAPD Officers Removing Her Hijab (LA Times)

Continuing oppression of Jammu and Kashmir includes crackdowns on journalists, on commerce, and on foreign relief efforts, military murders, and police killings and cover-ups:

• Media Policy 2020: Mocking Freedom of Speech and Expression in Jammu and Kashmir (The Leaflet)
• What Government Reports Tell About Business In Kashmir (Kashmir Observer)
• Intel Agencies to Probe New Turkish NGO Outreach in Kashmir: Official (Hindustan Times)
• Indian Military Admits Wrongdoing in 3 Kashmir Killings (Daily Independent)
• Kashmir Protests Erupt After Alleged Cover-up of Death in Custody (The Guardian)

… but Kashmiri’s must blame themselves for their denial of women the property rights conferred upon them by Islam:

• The Curious Case of Women’s Inheritance Rights in Kashmir (Kashmir Observer)

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