{"id":13939,"date":"2015-06-16T12:34:25","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T17:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=13939"},"modified":"2015-07-08T09:41:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T14:41:39","slug":"news-and-analysis-61615","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=13939","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (6\/16\/15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former minister Hamid calls Tuesday&#8217;s death sentence against Morsi a &#8220;nail in the coffin of democracy&#8221; and Western diplomats criticize\u00c2\u00a0it for the risk it will turn Egypt&#8217;s first freely elected President \u00c2\u00a0into a martyr, which could lead to an armed conflict &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Middle-East\/2015\/0616\/Egyptian-court-sentences-Morsi-Muslim-Brotherhood-leaders-to-death\">Egyptian Court Sentences Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood Leaders to Death<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; yet the U.S. continues its support of the regime even as the rising number of &#8220;disappearances&#8221; in the country is reminiscent of fascist Argentina:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/16\/opinion\/egypts-vanishing-youth.html?mwrsm=Email&amp;_r=1\">Egypt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Vanishing Youth<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/columns\/four-traits-sisi-hitler-and-mussolini-have-common-1427651880\">The Four Traits Sisi, Hitler and Mussolini Have in Common<\/a> (Middle East Eye)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since the January attack on the satire magazine Charlie Hebdo, there has been a rise on attacks on the Muslim community. The PM Manuel Valls took the opportunity at a conference to point out that Islam and extremism\u00c2\u00a0are not connected:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/hate-extremism-not-islam-french-pm-114115987.html\">Hate And Extremism &#8216;Not Islam&#8217; says French PM<\/a> (AFP \/ Yahoo News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A\u00c2\u00a0Muslim leader&#8217;s proposal to provide Frances&#8217;s 5 million Muslims with prayer space is opposed by far-right politicians, but welcomed by Christian ministers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/french-muslim-leader-dalil-boubaker-calls-empty-catholic-churches-be-turned-into-mosques-1506417\">French Muslim Leader Dalil Boubaker Calls for Empty Catholic Churches to Be Turned Into Mosques<\/a> (International Business Times UK)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While still grieving, family of\u00c2\u00a017-year-old ISIS suicide bomber\u00c2\u00a0points out that &#8220;Isis did not represent Islam or Muslims &#8216;in any way, shape of form'&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/jun\/14\/west-yorkshire-teenager-talha-asmal-britain-youngest-suicide-bomber\">&#8216;Britain&#8217;s Youngest Suicide Bomber&#8217; Mourned by West Workshire Family<\/a> (Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; Lady Warsi &#8220;urged ministers to reach out to Muslim communities rather than disengage with groups as she said they have been doing for the past seven years&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2015\/jun\/16\/lady-warsi-ministers-fuelling-muslim-radicalisation\">Lady Warsi: Ministers Fuelling Muslim Radicalisation<\/a> (Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Scott Shane portrays the Muslim community in Boston &#8211; their fear of further stigmatization of Muslims, the conflicts within the community, and the prejudice in the public:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/16\/us\/boston-muslims-struggle-to-wrest-image-of-islam-from-terrorists.html?_r=0\">Boston Muslims Struggle to Wrest Image of Islam\u00c2\u00a0From Terrorists<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since the sun is up for around 18 hours in UK and never sets in northern Sweden during the summer &#8211; fasting for Muslims can be very hard:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/ramadan-2015--as-ramadan-approaches-an-argument-over-how-long-northern-european-muslims-should-fast-springs-up-10318852.html\">Ramadan 2015: As Holy Month Approaches, Debate Emerges About How Long Muslims in Northern Europe Should Fast<\/a> (Independent)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former minister Hamid calls Tuesday&#8217;s death sentence against Morsi a &#8220;nail in the coffin of democracy&#8221; and Western diplomats criticize\u00c2\u00a0it for the risk it will turn Egypt&#8217;s first freely elected President \u00c2\u00a0into a martyr, which could lead to an armed conflict &#8230; Egyptian Court Sentences Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood Leaders to Death (Christian Science Monitor) &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52862,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13939","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\/13939","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\/52862"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13939"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14179,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13939\/revisions\/14179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}