{"id":14270,"date":"2015-07-21T14:12:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T19:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=14270"},"modified":"2015-07-21T14:12:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T19:12:53","slug":"news-and-analysis-72115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=14270","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (7\/21\/15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Robinson points out the absurdity of the call to treat Muslim-Americans as the US treated Japanese-American during World War II, calling it a &#8220;racist disgrace that &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0left traumatic scars that last to this day&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/america.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2015\/7\/the-frightening-new-proposal-to-intern-muslim-citizens.html\">Frightening Proposal to Intern Muslim Citizens <\/a>(Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>His Muslim missionary and theologian father taught him the hadith, &#8220;Loyalty to your country &#8230; is part of your faith,&#8221; so he sees &#8220;nothing Islamic&#8221; in the slaying of his comrades, &#8220;only the actions of a sick and twisted individual&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2015\/07\/17\/chattanooga-marine-killing-muslim-marines-testimony-column\/30288751\/\">A Muslim Marine&#8217;s Testimony to His Fallen Chattanooga Brothers<\/a> (USA Today)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Christians calling\u00c2\u00a0on Muslims to condemn terrorist attacks is problematic: it assumes there&#8217;s a inherent link between the two, it ignores Muslims who have condemned it, as well as Christianity&#8217;s own violent history:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/sojo.net\/articles\/3-reasons-christians-shouldnt-ask-muslims-condemn-terrorism\">3 Reasons Christians Shouldn&#8217;t Ask Muslims to Condemn Terrorism<\/a> (Sojourners)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>He says the ban on Muslims does not extend to those who don&#8217;t threaten innocent civilians, but announcing the ban while standing in front of a\u00c2\u00a0Confederate battle flag could be dangerously inflammatory &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2015\/jul\/21\/andy-hallinan-florida-gun-store-owner-declares-sho\/\">&#8216;Muslim-Free Zone&#8217; Declared at Florida Gun Shop<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; considering that evangelist Franklin Graham&#8217;s statement that &#8220;[e]very Muslim that comes into this country has the potential of being radicalized&#8221; is an invitation to\u00c2\u00a0further radicalization into right-wing extremism:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/qasim-rashid\/franklin-graham_b_7827498.html\">Franklin Graham Should Worry About Radicalizing Right-Wing Christians, Not Muslims<\/a> (Huffington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Campaigns like Reclaim &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0emerge and grow within an enabling environment where ideas that we once would have deemed unreasonable, intolerant and against our national character become mainstream&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2015\/jul\/20\/anne-aly-reclaim-australia-is-the-product-of-rising-right-wing-extremism\">Anne Aly: Reclaim Australia is the Product of Rising Rightwing Extremism<\/a> (Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The true desecration of the memory of the Prophet (pbuh) and of the Qur&#8217;an is perpetrated by those who unleash fatal violence against people they dislike by accusing their victims of the self-same charges (no proof required):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/raza-habib-raja\/in-the-name-of-blasphemy_b_7821662.html\">In the Name of Blasphemy<\/a> (Huffington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As Cameron broadens the definition of extremism, a journalist and\u00c2\u00a0political commentator wonders , &#8220;[W]ill I be censored from the numerous platforms that I currently write for because of my religious and political views?&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/columns\/david-cameron-follows-tony-blair-criminalising-muslim-community-348801872\">Cameron Follows Blair in Criminalising the Muslim Community<\/a> (Middle East Eye)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The fundamental right of religious freedom should not be violated because you are incarcerated. Still, Muslim prisoners of the\u00c2\u00a0Miami-Dade prison are denied Halal-food:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/live.huffingtonpost.com\/r\/archive\/segment\/55a9529178c90ae2f2000396?cps=gravity_2677_-500968303471088474\">Why Do Muslim Prisoners Have to Eat Non-Halal Food?<\/a> (Huffington Post Live)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/muslim-prisoners-forced-to-compromise-beliefs-in-miami-dade-prison_55ad05eae4b0d2ded39f617b\">Muslim Prisoners Say They Are Forced to Compromise Beliefs in Miami-Dade Prisons<\/a> (Huffington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Instead of banning the release of such videos, Baghdadi should have rather banned the crimes behind the scenes. But he has already justified the barbarism of his followers&#8221; &#8211;\u00c2\u00a0Ferid Hisso,\u00c2\u00a0Syrian politician and lawyer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Global-News\/2015\/0721\/No-more-gory-beheading-videos-Why-ISIS-has-banned-execution-videos\">No More Gory Beheading Videos: Why ISIS Has Banned Execution Videos<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Robinson points out the absurdity of the call to treat Muslim-Americans as the US treated Japanese-American during World War II, calling it a &#8220;racist disgrace that &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0left traumatic scars that last to this day&#8221;: Frightening Proposal to Intern Muslim Citizens (Al-Jazeera) His Muslim missionary and theologian father taught him the hadith, &#8220;Loyalty to your [&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-14270","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\/14270","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=14270"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14278,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14270\/revisions\/14278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}