{"id":14113,"date":"2015-07-01T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T17:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=14113"},"modified":"2015-07-01T12:58:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T17:58:04","slug":"news-and-analysis-7115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=14113","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (7\/1\/15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The irony! A 26-year-old Muslim woman and a religious seminary allied to ISIS argue &#8220;for the right of young women to choose their occupation &#8230; [while her] father and his young attorneys&#8221; argue that the unmarried woman must &#8220;return to her father\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s custody, since he is, under Islamic law, her legal guardian&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/211105\/what-trial-pakistan-reveals-about-women-who-choose-fundamentalist-islam#\">What a Trial in Pakistan Reveals About Women Who Choose Fundamentalist Islam<\/a> (The Nation)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;This is not the war between Islam and the West&#8230;. It is a generational struggle between a minority of extremists, who want hatred to flourish, and the rest of us, who want freedom to prosper&#8221; PM says, but still advocates anti-radicalization strategies that might alienate British Muslims:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/06\/30\/david-cameron-schools-extremists_n_7698600.html\">Prime Minister David Cameron: British Schools Must Root Out Muslim Extremists<\/a> (Huffington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Among the benefits of a nuclear deal with Iran are:\u00c2\u00a0it will push for democracy in Iran; it will give the US more alternatives, and less dependence on Saudi Arabia, in the region:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2015\/06\/30\/opinions\/iran-nuclear-talks-parsi\/index.html\">Iran Nuclear Talks: Five Reasons Why a Deal Would Be Good for the U.S. <\/a>(CNN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Neglecting the pluralistic message of the Quran has allowed fringe groups to use anachronistic stereotypes about fellow Muslims, people of other faiths and entire nation-states, to unleash a form of violence rooted in extreme interpretations of Islamic eschatology (the study of end-of-time)&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/parvez-ahmed\/pluralism-in-islam-betwee_b_7698090.html\">Pluralism in Islam &#8211; Between Scripture and Practice <\/a>(Huffington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After eight years of hunger strike, and\u00c2\u00a0already\u00c2\u00a0cleared for release<em>,\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>Tariq Ba Odah is held in Guantanamo,\u00c2\u00a0force-fed every day and confined in solitary. All this despite month-long protests from human rights activists and his lawyer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2015\/06\/26\/guantanamo-prisoner-who-weighs-75-pounds-and-is-near-death-files-motion-for-release\/?utm_source=NSHR+Rapid+Response&amp;utm_campaign=20a79aa208-NSHR_Alerts_News_October_9&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_3a915757be-20a79aa208-391722642&amp;mc_cid=670e134785&amp;mc_eid=fe35b2c683\">Guantanamo Prisoner, Who Weighs 75 Pounds and Is Near Death, Mounts Legal Push for Release<\/a> (FireDogLake)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/omar-farah\/sen-tom-cotton-guantanamo-bay_b_6631292.html\">Sen. Cotton May Think Guantanamo and Hell Are Different. My Clients Does Not<\/a> (Huffington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my favorite time of the year, because it really does help set me on a track for the rest of the year,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Congressman Keith Ellison, who has observed that animosity towards Islam on Capitol Hill &#8220;has largely faded. Now, lawmakers are growing accustomed to having some Muslim colleagues&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/246605-life-as-a-muslim-lawmaker-during-month-of-ramadan\">Life as a Muslim Lawmaker During Month of Ramadan<\/a> (The Hill)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;My friends and I are all about everyone coexisting &#8212; whether it&#8217;s your sexuality, religion, or race &#8212; we&#8217;re all human beings and we all deserve to live without fear&#8221; says organizer of the love-in that aimed to show support to\u00c2\u00a0the Muslim man who had been victim of a hate crime:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/06\/30\/iowa-love-in-muslim_n_7701166.html\">Iowa Woman Organizes Love-In Following Anti-Muslim Hate Crime <\/a>(Huffington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Violence in Egypt is escalating, as Islamic militants kill at least 53 in Sinai, Daniel Nisman (Levantine Group risk consultancy) calls the attack, for which the so-called &#8220;Islamic State&#8221; has taken credit\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;by far the worst we&#8217;ve ever seen&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/2015\/07\/01\/world\/middleeast\/ap-ml-egypt.html?_r=0\">Militants Attack Egyptian Army Checkpoints in Sinai, Killing 53<\/a> (New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The background of Tunisian terrorist shows the difficulties in tracking\u00c2\u00a0radicalization&#8230;. &#8220;We didn&#8217;t see anything strange about him. He was a good and assiduous student&#8221;, Ben Elgharat says:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Africa\/2015\/0630\/Tunisian-resort-attacker-trained-with-museum-terrorists-in-Libya-official-says\">Tunisian Resort Attacker Trained With Museum Terrorists in Libya, Official Says<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The irony! A 26-year-old Muslim woman and a religious seminary allied to ISIS argue &#8220;for the right of young women to choose their occupation &#8230; [while her] father and his young attorneys&#8221; argue that the unmarried woman must &#8220;return to her father\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s custody, since he is, under Islamic law, her legal guardian&#8221;: What a Trial [&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-14113","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\/14113","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=14113"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14125,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14113\/revisions\/14125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}