{"id":14126,"date":"2015-07-03T18:13:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T23:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=14126"},"modified":"2015-07-03T18:13:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T23:13:58","slug":"news-and-analysis-7215","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=14126","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (7\/2\/15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daesh now threatens to take over Gaza the strip, and &#8220;clean&#8221; Jerusalem of\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;Christians and non-believers,&#8221; but &#8220;some Christian residents of Jerusalem\u00c2\u00a0cast aspersions on the authenticity&#8221; of the threatening leaflets &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.pnn.ps\/2015\/07\/01\/is-we-will-conquer-gaza-and-clean-jerusalem\/\">IS: We Will Conquer Gaza And &#8220;Clean&#8221; Jerusalem<\/a> (Palestinian News Network)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and Daesh&#8217;s call to murder during Ramadan strongly upsets Muslim-Americans who, according to a Gallup poll, are more likely to condemn attacks on civilians than followers of other faiths &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/isis-ramadan-war-muslim-leaders-condemn-islamic-state-attacks-call-holy-month-time-1990904\">ISIS Ramadan War: Muslim Leaders Condemn Islamic State Attacks, Call Holy Month Time for Peace<\/a> (International Business Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and Kashif Chaudhry reproaches,\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;[I]t is dishonest to label the vast majority of Muslims who reject [ISIS&#8217;s]\u00c2\u00a0interpretations as <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.tribune.com.pk\/story\/24440\/i-disagree-with-sam-harris-and-bill-maher\/\" target=\"_hplink\">non-devout<\/a> or &#8216;nominal.&#8217;&#8230;. Whenever ISIS kills in the name of Islam &#8230; know that Prophet Muhammad explicitly warned us of these imposters, and entrusted us to root them out&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/kashif-n-chaudhry\/did-prophet-muhammad-warn_b_7702064.html\">Did Prophet Muhammad Warn Us of ISIS?<\/a> (Huffington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Russian government discriminates against its Muslims because\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153[t]hey are afraid of them. They need to control everything. If they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t control it, they recognize it as an enemy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, says\u00c2\u00a0Grigory Mavrov, a corporate lawyer who fled Russia to Istanbul after persecution for his conversion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/913570\/russia-sees-a-threat-in-its-converts-to-islam\/\">Russia Sees a Threat in Its Converts to Islam<\/a> (Express Tribune)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The Brotherhood referred to President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi as a &#8216;butcher&#8217; after nine of the group&#8217;s leaders were killed in a raid. The Brotherhood called the raid a murder &#8216;in cold blood'&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/muslim-brotherhood-calls-rebellion-against-egypts-president-following-death-349297\">Muslim Brotherhood Calls for Rebellion Against Egypt&#8217;s President Following Death of Leaders<\/a> (Newsweek)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An outline of the terrorist attacks in Egypt along with the misuse of power and violence of the Egyptian government:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Security-Watch\/Backchannels\/2015\/0701\/Islamic-State-s-strikes-in-Egypt-Is-this-a-full-blown-insurgency-video\">Islamic State&#8217;s Strikes in Egypt: Is This a Full-Blown Insurgency? <\/a>(Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pretending to advocate for abused women and children, the PDLA is really\u00c2\u00a0a\u00c2\u00a0virulently Islamophobic hate group that &#8220;has described Muslim immigration as an &#8216;invasion&#8217;, compared Muslims to cockroaches and rats, campaigns against Halal food, and has organised campaigns against mosques being built&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/victoria\/antiislam-group-deregistered-for-masquerading-as-domestic-violence-group-20150702-gi360o.html\">Anti-Islam Group Deregistered for Masquerading as Domestic Violence Group<\/a> (The Age)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Americans hesitate to call the Charleston shooting a terrorist attack because, &#8220;[f]or White Americans, categorising Roof&#8217;s act as terrorism would mean accepting the reality of the terror they have historically perpetrated on African Americans, Asians, Latinos, or more recently Muslims of diverse background&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/2015\/07\/terrorism-muslim-crimes-150701100658766.html\">Terrorism: For Muslim Crimes Only?<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daesh now threatens to take over Gaza the strip, and &#8220;clean&#8221; Jerusalem of\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;Christians and non-believers,&#8221; but &#8220;some Christian residents of Jerusalem\u00c2\u00a0cast aspersions on the authenticity&#8221; of the threatening leaflets &#8230; IS: We Will Conquer Gaza And &#8220;Clean&#8221; Jerusalem (Palestinian News Network) &#8230; and Daesh&#8217;s call to murder during Ramadan strongly upsets Muslim-Americans who, according to [&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-14126","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\/14126","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=14126"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14136,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14126\/revisions\/14136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}