{"id":19709,"date":"2018-11-16T12:11:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T17:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=19709"},"modified":"2018-11-16T12:11:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-16T17:11:51","slug":"news-and-analysis-11-16-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=19709","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (11\/16\/18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;<a class=\"LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ummid.com\/news\/2018\/November\/12.11.2018\/record-number-of-muslims-win-in-us-midterm-elections-2018.html\">record 55 Muslims<\/a> won election last week from federal to local offices&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/the-real-midterm-elections-wave-wasnt-blueit-was-muslim\">The Real Midterm Elections Wave Wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Blue\u00e2\u20ac\u201dIt Was Muslim<\/a> (The Daily Beast)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; the victories of Muslim women have been especially meaningful to Muslim girls:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/opinion\/commentary\/2018\/11\/15\/election-muslim-women-congress-inspiring-generation-muslim-women-north-texas\">The Election of Muslim Women to Congress Is Inspiring a Generation in North Texas<\/a> (Dallas News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first note said &#8220;You are a terrorist.&#8221; The second said &#8220;I will kill you.&#8221; The police have been called in but the girl&#8217;s family &#8220;says they just want the person responsible to come forward, so they can turn this into a learning experience&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston25news.com\/news\/10-year-old-muslim-girl-threatened-at-framingham-school\/872328231\">10-year-old Muslim Girl Threatened at Framingham School<\/a> (Boston 25 News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; while in Israel a &#8220;proudly Zionist&#8221; school bullies two of its students for silently demonstrating solidarit with Palestinian victims of Israeli brutality:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Diaspora\/Jewish-students-take-a-knee-during-Hatikva-in-support-of-Palestinans-571921\">Jewish Students &#8216;Take a Knee&#8217; During Hatikva in Support of Palestinians<\/a> (Jerusalem Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Trump administration seems willing to buy the Saudi retread of the story that Khashoggi&#8217;s murder was not premeditated but Congress is not:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/global-opinions\/saudi-arabias-latest-account-of-khashoggis-death-is-shocking-in-its-audacity\/2018\/11\/15\/4e236dc0-e8f1-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html?utm_term=.87f63246bc6a\">Saudi Arabia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Latest Account of Khashoggi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Death Is Shocking in Its Audacity<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/2018\/11\/15\/4385a472-e8e8-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html?utm_term=.1f7837f89bb6\">U.S., Saudi Steps in Khashoggi Case Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Go Far Enough, Lawmakers sSy<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In classical Muslim society there were numerous cases of Jewish senior ministers. Morocco has one right now:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/jewish-news-and-politics\/274963\/most-powerful-jew-in-the-muslim-world\">Andr\u00c3\u00a9 Azoulay Is the Most Powerful Jew in the Muslim World<\/a> (Tablet)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The legislation asks the State Department to consider targeted sanctions for individuals responsible for alleged human rights abuses in China&#8221; and for &#8220;an interagency report on the number of persons detained in the camps, camp conditions, and the number who are arbitrarily detained&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2018\/11\/15\/china-diplomats-congress-muslim-persecution-rubio-uighur\/2010636002\/\">China Faces Pressure as Congress Condemns the Persecution of Muslim Minorities<\/a> (USA Today)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The Saudis are very angry at Trump. They don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t trust him any more and feel very strongly about a cut. They had no heads-up about the waivers&#8221;&#8211;an anonymous &#8220;senior source&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-oil-opec-saudi\/upset-by-trumps-iran-waivers-saudis-push-for-deep-oil-output-cut-idUSKCN1NK20S\">Upset by Trump&#8217;s Iran Waivers, Saudis Push for Deep Oil Output Cut<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What could possibly motivate Iran to support Sunni extremists like the Taliban? A\u00c2\u00a0Woodrow Wilson International Center Scholar suggest the answer is U.S. foreign policy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2018\/11\/16\/shutting-out-iran-will-make-the-afghan-war-even-deadlier\/\">Shutting Out Iran Will Make the Afghan War Even Deadlier<\/a> (Foreign Policy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Amnesty called the trial &#8216;inherently unfair&#8217; because they were denied access to lawyers of their choosing and had no chance to appeal the court\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ruling. Additionally, the televised &#8216;show trials&#8217; were alleged to be embarrassing to the prisoners&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurist.org\/news\/2018\/11\/amnesty-iran-execution-of-two-financial-criminals-abhorrent\/\">Amnesty: Iran Execution of Two Financial Criminals \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcAbhorrent\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/a> (Jurist)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A pollster reports that over the past three years Iraqi &#8220;Shiites who believe that Iran is a reliable partner in Iraq has decreased sharply, from 76 percent to 43 percent, over the same period. Those who believe that Iran is not a reliable partner increased from 24 percent to 55 percent&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/monkey-cage\/wp\/2018\/11\/16\/irans-influence-in-iraq-is-declining-heres-why\/?utm_term=.ab8acc9aa14e\">Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Influence in Iraq Is Declining. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Why<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;record 55 Muslims won election last week from federal to local offices&#8221; &#8230; The Real Midterm Elections Wave Wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Blue\u00e2\u20ac\u201dIt Was Muslim (The Daily Beast) &#8230; the victories of Muslim women have been especially meaningful to Muslim girls: The Election of Muslim Women to Congress Is Inspiring a Generation in North Texas (Dallas News) [&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-19709","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\/19709","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=19709"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19720,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19709\/revisions\/19720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}