{"id":19621,"date":"2018-10-27T10:02:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T15:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=19621"},"modified":"2018-10-27T10:05:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T15:05:28","slug":"news-and-analysis-10-27-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=19621","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (10\/27\/18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mueller\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s investigators examined a series of [pre-inauguration] meetings between an Israeli social media strategist, the general blamed for Jamal Khashoggi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s murder, and Trump adviser Michael Flynn &#8230; [which smack] of covert action planning, which is &#8230; uniquely the province of the sitting president&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/saudi-spy-met-with-team-trump-about-taking-down-iran\">Saudi Spy Met With Team Trump About Taking Down Iran<\/a> (Daily Beast)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;In the wake of terrorist attacks perpetrated by self-identified Muslims, Americans &#8230; become more concerned about religious radicalism, [but] they do not commit a fallacy of generalization by feeling cooler towards Muslims in general&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/social-justice\/americans-are-distinguishing-between-muslims-and-terrorists?utm_source=NSHR%20Rapid%20Response&amp;utm_campaign=7e21e2be26-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_15_02_10_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_3a915757be-7e21e2be26-391722642&amp;mc_cid=66123092bd&amp;mc_eid=fe35b2c683\">Americans Are Distinguishing Between Muslims and Terrorists<\/a> (Pacific Standard Magazine)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">&#8220;Washington&#8217;s plan to minimise Iran&#8217;s influence in Iraq by &#8216;<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecPompeo\/status\/1035916472244162560\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forming a strong Iraqi government on national basis&#8217;<\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00c2\u00a0and a <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">cross-sectarian coalition did not work. In other words, the &#8216;<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/veteran-kurdish-politician-wins-iraqi-presidency-as-traditional-alliances-falter\/2018\/10\/02\/dac9b788-c5b1-11e8-9c0f-2ffaf6d422aa_story.html?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.06ee7ba9f309\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">break down&#8217;<\/a>&#8221; of Iraq&#8217;s &#8216;sectarian loyalties&#8217;<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00c2\u00a0is not happening at the expense of Iranian influence&#8221;:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/iran-won-face-iraq-181018101229959.html\">How Iran Won a Face-off with the US in Iraq<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The singer says &#8220;her conversion was &#8216;the natural conclusion of any intelligent theologian\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s journey. All scripture study leads to Islam'&#8221; and releases a video of her singing the call to prayer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/consequenceofsound.net\/2018\/10\/sinead-oconnor-islam\/?fbclid=IwAR1PbiiWCvkWhpB4ZeF27xBKjomGiaEGr8ksdN5xoY4H9-DHoFEfpPp9z5U\">Sinead O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Connor Converts to Islam, Changes Her Name to Shuhada Davitt<\/a> (Consequence of Sound)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[T]he decisions represented the position of the committee that a general criminal ban did not allow for a reasonable balance between public interests and individual rights&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/europe\/france-niqab-ban-burqa-human-rights-united-nations-islam-veil-a8599131.html\">France&#8217;s Niqab Ban V iolates Human Rights by Leaving Muslim Women &#8216;Confined at Home&#8217;, UN Panel Rules<\/a> (Independent)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; but Coalition Avenir Qu\u00c3\u00a9bec \u00e2\u20ac\u2039Premier Fran\u00c3\u00a7ois Legault couldn&#8217;t care less:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/quebec-chador-religious-symbols-1.4876212\">Quebec Wants to Expand Religious Symbol Ban, Blocking Muslim Garments in Civil Service<\/a> (CBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One can distinguish quietist, activist, and violent varieties of Salafism:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/erasmus\/2018\/10\/24\/how-to-understand-salafism-in-america\">How to Understand Salafism in America<\/a> (Economist)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Israeli forces shot and killed four Palestinians and wounded 232, 180 of them from live fire, during protests along the border with Gaza on Friday&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-israel-palestinians-protests\/israeli-forces-kill-four-palestinians-in-gaza-border-protest-medics-idUSKCN1N023J\">Israeli Forces Kill Four Palestinians in Gaza Border Protest: Medics<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Palestinians object to what they see as the abandonment of &#8221; the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative, also known as the Saudi Initiative, which calls, among other things, for normalizing relations between the Arab countries and Israel in exchange for a full Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 lines&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Arab-Israeli-Conflict\/Palestinians-slam-Oman-over-Netanyahu-visit-570431\">Palestinians Slam Oman over Netanyahu Visit<\/a> (Jerusalem Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Mueller\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s investigators examined a series of [pre-inauguration] meetings between an Israeli social media strategist, the general blamed for Jamal Khashoggi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s murder, and Trump adviser Michael Flynn &#8230; [which smack] of covert action planning, which is &#8230; uniquely the province of the sitting president&#8221;: Saudi Spy Met With Team Trump About Taking Down Iran (Daily Beast) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19621","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\/19621","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19621"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19633,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19621\/revisions\/19633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}