{"id":14167,"date":"2015-07-07T12:22:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T17:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=14167"},"modified":"2015-07-08T09:41:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T14:41:16","slug":"news-and-analysis-7715","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=14167","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (7\/7\/15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We want for others what we want for ourselves: the right to worship without intimidation, the right to safety, and the right to property\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/446642\/muslim-non-profits-are-raising-money-to-rebuild-black-churches-because-all-houses-of-worship-are-sanctuaries\/\">Muslim Non-profits Are Raising Money to Rebuild Black Churches Because \u00e2\u20ac\u0153All Houses of Worship Are Sanctuaries\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a> (Quartz)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whenever Americans are killed by Muslims, it is blown up by the mainstream media, while the victims of US attacks are almost never humanized, and their deaths barely recognized:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/2015\/07\/06\/civilian-deaths-yemen-will-ignored\/\">Today&#8217;s Civilian Victims in Yemen Will Be Ignored Because US And Its Allies Are Responsible<\/a> (Intercept)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Following the recent terrorist attacks, the Egyptian government now drafts\u00c2\u00a0a law that will make it illegal to contradict the government when it comes to reporting terrorism:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2015\/07\/06\/egypt-journalists-jail_n_7737878.html\">Egypt Wants to Jail Journalists for Not Falling in Line. It&#8217;s Been Trained By a US Nonprofit<\/a> (Huffington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Obama acknowledges that the fight against ISIS is a fight of ideas, and that\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;[i]deologies are not defeated by guns [but with] &#8230; better ideas&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2015\/jul\/06\/barack-obama-isis-generational-struggle-pentagon\">Barack Obama Says Fighting ISIS Will Be a &#8216;Generational Struggle<\/a>&#8216; (Guardian)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=129224\">Obama Discusses Anti-ISIL Strategy With National Security Team at Pentagon<\/a> (US Department of Defense)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>20 years later, many still fail to acknowledge the genocide in Srebrenica. Attorney Adisada Dudic says, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153[D]enial is the last stage of genocide&#8221;, claiming that the U.N. and U.S. have documentary proof of genocide\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/watch\/shows\/live-news\/articles\/2015\/7\/6\/saturday-marks-20-year-anniversary-of-srebrenica-genocide1.html\">Saturday Marks 20-year Anniversary of Srebrenica Genocide<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Terrorism of any kind in America is rare, and Radley Balko calls for an end to its over-emphasis\u00c2\u00a0in politics and media without diminishing of the importance of lives lost or of the &#8220;sheer horror&#8221; of terrorism:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2015\/07\/06\/the-good-news-about-extremist-violence-in-the-united-states-its-vanishingly-rare\/\">The Good News About Extremist Violence in the United States: It&#8217;s Vanishingly Rare<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With outstanding disputes on issues &#8220;from\u00c2\u00a0inspection rules on suspicious &#8230; sites to limits on &#8230; [R&amp;D] of advanced nuclear technology &#8230; no one was speaking yet on Tuesday of a long-term extension&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Middle-East\/2015\/0707\/Deadline-for-Iran-nuclear-deal-missed-extended-again\">Deadline for Iran Nuclear Deal Missed, Extended Again<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today, a\u00c2\u00a0bomb attack &#8211; most likely executed by Boko Haram &#8211; took place against a government office\u00c2\u00a0in Zaria, Nigeria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/articles\/2015\/7\/7\/bomb-kills-20-in-northern-nigeria.html\">Bomb Blamed on Boko Haram Kills 20 in Northern Nigeria<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We want for others what we want for ourselves: the right to worship without intimidation, the right to safety, and the right to property\u00e2\u20ac\u009d: Muslim Non-profits Are Raising Money to Rebuild Black Churches Because \u00e2\u20ac\u0153All Houses of Worship Are Sanctuaries\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Quartz) Whenever Americans are killed by Muslims, it is blown up by the mainstream media, [&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-14167","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\/14167","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=14167"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14177,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14167\/revisions\/14177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}