{"id":12015,"date":"2014-07-27T16:08:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-27T21:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=12015"},"modified":"2014-07-27T16:08:12","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T21:08:12","slug":"news-and-analysis-72714","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=12015","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (7\/27\/14)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>EID MUBARAK!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Warned by a coward hiding behind the handle &#8220;Abu Hafs&#8221; to &#8220;<span style=\"color: #000000;\">stop hindering men from Allah&#8217;s path,&#8221; t<\/span>he founder of the Islamic Friendship Association replies, <span style=\"color: #000000;\">&#8220;it is people like this Abu Hafs who are &#8216;hindering men from Allah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s path'&#8221;:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/nsw\/muslim-leader-threatened-for-warning-against-going-to-syria-and-iraq-20140726-zw9rm.html\">Muslim Leader Threatened for Warning Against Going to Syria and Iraq<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(The Sydney Morning Herald)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s bringing me back to reality. I&#8217;m trying to stay on a straight path&#8221; &#8212; inmate Derek Cooper:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/la-me-adv-jail-ramadan-20140727-story.html\">Under New Rules, Muslim Inmates in L.A. County Jails Observe Ramadan<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gaza libertarian Omar Shaban says, &#8220;Twenty years ago, how to make peace with Israel was a daily topic for the Palestinian people[, but today, in] Israel, politicians and groups compete to see who will be more aggressive towards the Palestinians:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2014\/07\/25\/opinion\/mideast-peace-omar-shaban\/\">Opinion: 20 Years on, the Struggle for Gaza Peace Drains me of Hope<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(CNN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s formula in spinning the slaughter of Gazans &#8220;can be found in The Israel Project\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2009 Global Language Dictionary. The Orwellian manual provides a detailed outline on how to &#8216;communicate effectively in support of Israel&#8217;\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2014\/07\/23\/%E2%80%9Cthe_more_the_dead_the_better%E2%80%9D_israel%E2%80%99s_crumbling_media_war\/?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_medium=socialflow\">The More the Dead, the Better\u00e2\u20ac\u009d: Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Crumbling Media War&#8221;<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Salon)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The man\u00c2\u00a0who wants to ban the niqab is the latest example of Muslim (and other) men telling Muslim (and other) women what they can and can&#8217;t wear:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/theobserver\/she-said\/2014\/jul\/26\/why-are-so-many-people-obsessed-with-muslim-womens-wardrobes\">Why Are So Many People Obsessed with Muslim Women&#8217;s Wardrobes?<\/a> (Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The UN human rights convoy expressed deep concerns over the conditions in camps where &#8220;more than 100,000 mostly minority Muslims displaced by violence led by Buddhist extremists&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/myanmar-envoy-worried-camps-displaced-24727336\">UN Myanmar Envoy Worried Over Displaced Muslims<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(ABC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;British Muslims are an extremely enterprising community. They contribute over \u00c2\u00a331billion to the UK economy every year&#8221;, they are role models, extremely tolerant and charitable:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/sadiq-khan\/british-muslims-uk-religion_b_5620298.html\">British Muslims Have British Values<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Huffington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If Michelle Bachman thinks she can use Sisi-style tactics to persecute journalists and think tanks that want to report on the Muslim Brotherhood, she better re-read the US Constitution:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/news\/americas\/13062-congress-bill-calls-for-designating-muslim-brotherhood-as-terrorist-organisation\">Congress Bill Calls for Designating Muslim Brotherhood as &#8216;Terrorist Organisation&#8217;<\/a> (Middle East Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Danish politican Mogens\u00c2\u00a0Camre said that he did not mean that every Muslim is persecuting Jews and that he didn&#8217;t have room to explain himself fully in his Tweet, but he still seems to believe that\u00c2\u00a0they are &#8220;just waiting to kill us&#8221;:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cphpost.dk\/news\/muslims-should-be-treated-the-same-as-hitler-dfer-says.10324.html\">Muslims Should be Treated the Same as Hitler, DFer Says<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(The Copenhagen Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EID MUBARAK! Warned by a coward hiding behind the handle &#8220;Abu Hafs&#8221; to &#8220;stop hindering men from Allah&#8217;s path,&#8221; the founder of the Islamic Friendship Association replies, &#8220;it is people like this Abu Hafs who are &#8216;hindering men from Allah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s path&#8217;&#8221;: Muslim Leader Threatened for Warning Against Going to Syria and Iraq\u00c2\u00a0(The Sydney Morning Herald) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45555,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/45555"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12015"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12026,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12015\/revisions\/12026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}