{"id":17967,"date":"2017-12-20T16:56:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T21:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=17967"},"modified":"2017-12-20T16:56:35","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T21:56:35","slug":"news-and-analysis-12-20-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=17967","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (12\/20\/17)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can something good come out Trump&#8217;s Jerusalem blunder? If he cuts off foreign aid to everyone who disagrees with him it will save American taxpayers a fortune, free up our allies from the obligation to kow-tow to American dictates and cue Muslims to rise up against the puppet dictatorships that oppress them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-trump-israel-un\/trump-threatens-to-cut-aid-to-u-n-members-over-jerusalem-vote-idUSKBN1EE2A3?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=topNews&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29\">Trump Threatens to Cut Aid to U.N. Members over Jerusalem Vote<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Privacy protection &#8230; combines elements of liberalism and libertarianism.&#8221; Neither the ACLU nor the conservative House Freedom Caucus wants Section 702 to re-authorized as it stands, leaving American citizens exposed to &#8220;inadvertent&#8221; surveillance supposed to have been directed at foreigners:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/Politics\/2017\/1220\/Strange-bedfellows-critics-left-and-right-oppose-warrantless-wiretapping-renewal\">Strange Bedfellows: Critics Left and Right Oppose Warrantless Wiretapping Renewal<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[O]n advice from a &#8220;lawyer in the Maryland Office of the Attorney General,&#8221; opponents of the Muslim housing project have been warned &#8220;to be very careful about what&#8221; they say lest their words be used against them in a lawsuit by the project&#8217;s supporters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baltimoresun.com\/news\/maryland\/harford\/aegis\/ph-ag-ansar-mandamus-1222-story.html\">Ansar Housing Opponents Again Say They&#8217;re Not Against Having Muslim Neighbors<\/a> (Baltimore Sun)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Muslims to quietly go about charity giving in a way that is consistent with the emphasis in Islam on discretion, of &#8216;giving charity so that the left hand does not know what the right hand gives&#8217;, but this is a story which needs to be told&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/voices\/muslim-charity-charities-christmas-homelessness-volunteer-a8117116.html\">The Difference Made by Muslim Charities Is Often Ignored \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Especially over Christmas<\/a> (Independent)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Sovereign Islamic debt issuance by non-Muslim countries is set to hit a 3-year high in 2017.&#8221; Islamic finance is &#8220;based on the principles of risk and profit-sharing &#8230; [and professes no] interest on loans, and &#8230; [no] funding activities involving alcohol, pork, pornography or gambling&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/12\/19\/sukuk-islamic-finance-grows-in-non-muslim-countries.html\">\u00c2\u00a0Islamic Finance Is Becoming So Attractive that Even Non-Muslims Want In<\/a> (CNBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Increasingly, Jews and Muslims are spending the holiday in church soup kitchens and senior centers for service-oriented projects, and sometimes in text study sessions that tease out common ground&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jewishweek.timesofisrael.com\/a-very-muslim-jewish-christmas\/\">Muslim-Jewish Groups Partner for Dialogue, Social Justice Work on Christmas<\/a> (Times of Israel)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"s2\">&#8220;The targeting of the Christian holy sites by Jewish extremists, and the arson and vandalism of over 53 churches in Jerusalem and Palestine, in so-called price tag attacks is no different than the dozens of times that the graves of Muslims have been defaced&#8221;:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jordantimes.com\/news\/local\/trump%E2%80%99s-decision-attack-every-muslim-every-christian-%E2%80%94-jerusalem-awqaf\">Trump\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Decision an Attack on Every Muslim, Every Christian \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Jerusalem Awqaf<\/a> (Jordan Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Indian government doesn&#8217;t care whether instant divorce is permitted or forbidden by Islamic law, arguing, &#8220;The government is of the view that the issue arises from the humanitarian concept of gender justice, gender equality and dignity of women and not arising from faith and religion&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/muslim-bodies-not-consulted-on-triple-talaq-bill-govt\/article22035361.ece\">Muslim Bodies Not Consulted on Triple Talaq Bill: Govt<\/a> (The Hindu)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; while the EU refuses to intervene in private divorces, leaving each member state to decide on their validity:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-42424547\">EU Laws Do Not Cover Sharia Divorce, Says ECJ<\/a> (BBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can something good come out Trump&#8217;s Jerusalem blunder? 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