{"id":14279,"date":"2015-07-22T12:57:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T17:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=14279"},"modified":"2015-07-22T13:08:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T18:08:12","slug":"news-and-analysis-72215","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=14279","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (7\/22\/15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alaa Murabit argues that\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;[t]hose who used religion to justify discrimination against women were using cultural standards, not scriptural standards&#8221; and calls for women to reclaim the religion &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/what-islam-really-says-about-women_55aeaac8e4b08f57d5d2c966\">Alaa Murabit is Making Sure People Know What Islam Really Says About Women<\/a> (Huffington Post\/TedTalk)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;but French feminists are abandoning the cause of empowering women by buying into the new, changed notion of\u00c2\u00a0political secularism, now used to advance\u00c2\u00a0anti-Muslim laws:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/womens-blog\/2015\/jul\/20\/france-feminism-hijab-ban-muslim-women\">\u00c2\u00a0Feminists Are Failing Muslim Women By Supporting Racist French Laws<\/a> (Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One of the oldest examples of the Qur&#8217;an have been found at University of Birmingham, possibly transcribed\u00c2\u00a0by someone who met the Prophet in person, supports the standard text:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-33436021\">&#8216;Oldest&#8217; Koran Fragments Found in Birmingham University<\/a> (BBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Obama talks about\u00c2\u00a0the Iran nuclear deal on the Daily Show, pointing out that the deal is better than no deal at all, but dodging Jon Stewart&#8217;s question on whom we are fighting in the Middle East:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thedailyshow.cc.com\/guests\/barack-obama\/ulg0vv\/barack-obama-pt--1\">Barack Obama pt. 1 <\/a>(Daily Show)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/22\/us\/politics\/obama-pokes-fun-at-critics-of-iran-deal-on-the-daily-show.html?_r=0\">Obama Teases Critics of the Iran Nuclear Deal (and Jon Stewart) on &#8216;The Daily Show&#8217;<\/a> (New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In fear of militant Islamists, the UAE clamps down on freedom of speech:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/07\/20\/us-emirates-law-idUSKCN0PU1F620150720\">UAE, Concerned About Militant Islam, Passes Law Against Race, Faith\u00c2\u00a0Hate<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sure Ford wishes OJ (Simpson) hadn&#8217;t driven a Bronco and Kraft wishes Jim Jones hadn&#8217;t poisoned the Kool Aid&#8230;. Obviously none of these &#8230; endorsed their actions, just as I do not endorse this heinous act&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesfreepress.com\/news\/local\/story\/2015\/jul\/20\/muslim-blogger-quoted-gunman-yearbook-speaks-out\/315556\/\">Muslim Blogger Quoted By Gunman in Yearbook Speaks Out<\/a> (Chattanooga Times Free Press)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After arguing that presuming the &#8220;Big Bang&#8221;to an accident is more fantastical than presuming it to be an act of agency, physician Kashif Chaudhry\u00c2\u00a0finds himself kicked off of some atheist blogs on a false charge of proslytization:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/kashif-n-chaudhry\/the-real-fairytale_b_7798296.html\">The Real Fairytale<\/a> (Huffington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaa Murabit argues that\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;[t]hose who used religion to justify discrimination against women were using cultural standards, not scriptural standards&#8221; and calls for women to reclaim the religion &#8230; Alaa Murabit is Making Sure People Know What Islam Really Says About Women (Huffington Post\/TedTalk) &#8230;but French feminists are abandoning the cause of empowering women by buying [&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-14279","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\/14279","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=14279"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14286,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14279\/revisions\/14286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}