{"id":12982,"date":"2015-01-04T14:27:13","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T19:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=12982"},"modified":"2015-01-04T14:27:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T19:27:13","slug":"news-and-analysis-1415","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=12982","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (1\/4\/15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"articleText\">Hanan Ashrawi calls Israel&#8217;s attempts to punish Palestinians for joining the ICC &#8220;highway robbery. Not only is this illegal, they are adding money theft to land theft. The revenues belong to the Palestinian people, they go to pay salaries and support our economy. Israel has no business deciding to steal our funds&#8221;:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/01\/03\/us-mideast-palestinians-israel-idUSKBN0KC07Q20150103?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=topNews\">Israel Withholds Funds, Weighs Lawsuits Against Palestinians<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Dr. Hathout believed that American Muslims would contribute to America by practicing the Islamic values of mercy, equity and justice.\u00c2\u00a0He moved many of us from darkness to light and he wanted all of us to discover the power in the Quran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s message to do the same for others&#8221; &#8212; MPAC Statement \u00c2\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onislam.net\/english\/news\/americas\/481457-us-muslim-pioneer-passes-away.html\">US Muslim Pioneer Passes Away<\/a> (Islamonline)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; Some attempted to deny Hatout was a moderate Muslim because of his &#8220;disparaging remarks he had made about Israel ,&#8221; but according his confidant, the late Leonard Rabbi Beerman, &#8220;he expressed a gracious desire for communication with those who stood against him. It was a sign of who he was as a man&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/obituaries\/la-me-maher-hathout-20150104-story.html\">Dr. Maher Hathout, Muslim Advocate for Interfaith Peace, Dies at 79<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Rouhani both countered &#8230; critics worried Iran will give up too much while also attempting to signal his administration remains open to negotiation &#8230; [saying, if] &#8216;we are ready to stop some types of enrichment which we do not need at this time, does it mean we have compromised our principles and cause?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/irans-president-nuclear-talks-matter-heart-27987541\">Iran&#8217;s President: Nuclear Talks a Matter of Heart<\/a> (AP \/ abc News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anti-Muslim demonstrations continue in Germany,but &#8220;while thousands demonstrated under the PEGIDA flag in Dresden, thousands more took to the streets of other German cities \u00e2\u20ac\u201c including 12,000 in Munich \u00e2\u20ac\u201c against racism and Islamophobia&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20150103-german-establishment-fears-hatred-anti-islam-movement\/\">Fears Over Growing \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcHatred\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of Islam in Germany<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(France 24)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and &#8220;[o]ne of Germany&#8217;s most famous landmarks, Cologne Cathedral, will be plunged into darkness on Monday evening in protest at a march by a growing grass-roots anti-Muslim movement through the western German city, cathedral authorities said&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/01\/02\/cologne-cathedral-anti-muslim-march_n_6405976.html\">Germany&#8217;s Cologne Cathedral to Turn Off Lights in Protest at Anti-Muslim March<\/a> (Huffington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Sweden has long been a racially segregated country where many immigrants live in ghettos and struggle to find jobs, but that the success of the Sweden Democrats has made racism more socially acceptable&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/01\/03\/world\/in-sweden-the-land-of-the-open-door-anti-muslim-sentiment-finds-a-foothold.html?_r=0\">In Sweden, the Land of the Open Door, Anti-Muslim Sentiment Finds a Foothold<\/a> (Economist)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The Islamophobic reaction many of us feared, did not rear its ugly head to the extent as was witnessed in the aftermath of Operation Appleby. Rather, we came together as a family&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/comment\/from-tragedy-comes-hope-for-sydneys-muslim-community-20150104-12g520.html\">From Tragedy Comes Hope for Sydney&#8217;s Muslim Community<\/a> (Sydney Morning Herald)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;We hold the U.S. legally responsible for the death of my father. He had developed cancer while being in prison in America. [He]\u00c2\u00a0had undergone surgery in a hospital and had been sent back afterwards to prison though his condition had not been stable&#8221; &#8212; Al Liby&#8217;s son <span id=\"articleText\">his son Ahmed al-Ragye:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/01\/03\/us-usa-alqaeda-liby-idUSKBN0KC05T20150103?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=topNews\">Suspect in U.S. Embassy Bombings in Kenya, Tanzania, Dies Before NY Trial<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Muslim &#8220;[l]eaders around the world &#8230; have issued strong and unambiguous statements virtually every time a violent attack has occurred, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/09\/24\/muslim-scholars-islamic-state_n_5878038.html\">condemning such acts as immoral and counter to the fundamental precepts of Islam<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0Yet somehow their responses are not being heard, barely registering in the public consciousness&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2015\/01\/02\/why-dont-more-moderate-muslims-denounce-extremism\/\">Why Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t More Moderate Muslims Denounce Extremism?\u00c2\u00a0They do; we&#8217;re just not listening<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span id=\"articleText\">&#8220;Hardline Islamic groups such as Islamic State and al Qaeda&#8217;s Nusra Front have benefited from the infighting [among other rebels] and have emerged as some of the strongest factions in the conflict&#8221;:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/01\/04\/us-mideast-crisis-syria-infighting-idUSKBN0KD0AA20150104?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=topNews\">Islamist Group Seizes Damascus Suburb from Rivals: Monitor<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hanan Ashrawi calls Israel&#8217;s attempts to punish Palestinians for joining the ICC &#8220;highway robbery. Not only is this illegal, they are adding money theft to land theft. The revenues belong to the Palestinian people, they go to pay salaries and support our economy. Israel has no business deciding to steal our funds&#8221;: Israel Withholds Funds, [&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-12982","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\/12982","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=12982"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12995,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12982\/revisions\/12995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}