News and Analysis 9/17/23

Israel celebrates the Jewish New Year by shutting Muslims out of the Ibrahimi mosque and attacking them at Al-Aqsa:

• Israel Shuts Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque to Muslim Worshippers for Jewish Holidays (Andalou Ajansi)
• Israeli Forces Attack Palestinian Worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque (Aljazeera)

Iranians commemorate Mahsa Amini’s death in custody with protests both peaceful and violent:

• Protests Erupt in Iran, One Year After Mahsa Amini’s Death (CNN)
• Gunmen Kill Member of Iran’s Paramilitary Force, Wound 3 Others on Protest Anniversary (VoA)

India is engaged in “an everyday radicalisation of young men and women who appear very normal, until they decide to target Indian Muslims and Christians” …

• India’s Hindu Children Are Being Radicalised – Will the Country Speak Up? (Aljazeera)

… case in point, fatal community violence sparked by a Hindu schoolboy hacking into a Muslim romantic rival’s account to post “derogatory comments about” a Hindu king:

• ‘Shattered’: Muslim Engineer Killed by Mob at Mosque in India’s Maharashtra (Aljazeera)

“New Jersey’s longest-serving Muslim mayor — has said he believes his name is allegedly on a federal terrorist watchlist and that he had no ‘due process to clear my name’”:

• Muslim New Jersey Mayor Denied Entry to White House Plans Lawsuit Against ‘Watchlist’ (Politico)

The “Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government abolished the Commission for Protection of Women and Child Rights and six other commissions”:

• Art 370 Revoked Lifeline of Kashmir’s Women Abuse Survivors (News Click)

Opponents fear the act, touted as a pro-woman move will, like the previous prohibition of child marriage will prove to be “another stick to criminalise the community”:

• In Assam, Muslim Women Cautiously Welcome Move to Outlaw Polygamy (Scroll)

Young PAS candidates are perceived as corruption-free,  professionals, with a “grasp of global politics and because … some international elan”:

• Terengganu Muslim Youth: A Curious Enigma (The Star)

“Israel quit UNESCO in 2019, accusing it of being biased against it and … also objected to UNESCO’s acceptance of Palestine as a member state in 2011”:

• Israel Criticizes UN Vote to List Ruins Near Ancient Jericho as World Heritage Site in Palestine (abc News)

“Beita has been the centre of Israeli raids since 2021, as villagers started an ongoing protest campaign against an Israeli settlement outpost on Mount Sabih, on the lands of Beita”:

• Israeli Forces Injure Dozens of Palestinians in Beita, South of Nablus (New Arab)

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