{"id":19773,"date":"2018-12-01T07:14:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T12:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=19773"},"modified":"2018-12-01T07:14:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T12:14:22","slug":"news-and-analysis-12-1-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=19773","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (12\/1\/18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-elm-loc=\"10\">The murderer &#8220;raped her while she lay unconscious and dumped her body in a pond&#8221; but the &#8220;County Commonwealth\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Attorney &#8230; agreed to take the death penalty off the table&#8221; because potential\u00c2\u00a0confirmation of &#8220;severe intellectual disability&#8221; may have prevented it anyway &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/11\/29\/us\/slain-muslim-teen-plea-deal\/index.html\">Man Pleads Guilty to Rape and Murder in Killing of Muslim Teen Attacked Near Mosque<\/a> (CNN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and in another case, &#8220;Dawud Walid, executive director of Council on American-Islamic Relations Michigan, [asks]\u00c2\u00a0why, if the man is insane, he wasn&#8217;t given mental health treatment instead of a light jail sentence&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.metrotimes.com\/news-hits\/archives\/2018\/11\/28\/man-who-attacked-muslim-woman-in-hospital-was-released-on-time-served\">Man Who Attacked Muslim Woman in Hospital Was Released on Time Served<\/a> (Detroit Metro News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">&#8220;These concentration camps &#8230; where Uighur Muslims are remade into atheist Chinese subjects&#8221; are part of program that extends to children who are separated from parents to be placed into orphanages &#8220;disguised as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zL397VO2rn4&amp;t=90s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">schools<\/a>&#8221; for indoctrination &#8220;into loyal subjects who embrace atheism and Han customs&#8221;:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/china-islam-mental-illness-cured-181127135358356.html\">For China, Islam Is a &#8216;Mental Illness&#8217; that Needs to Be &#8216;Cured&#8217;<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The county&#8217;s &#8220;Republican Party chairman &#8230; &#8220;emailed a letter to Tarrant County Chair Darl Easton asking him to &#8216;reject a bigoted effort launched by at least one of your precinct chairs to remove a Muslim individual from your leadership and remove another precinct chair who is married to a Muslim'&#8221;:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/politics-government\/state-politics\/article222369275.html\">Republican Official Tells Tarrant GOP to Reject Bigotry and Leave Muslim Leader Alone<\/a> (Star-Telegram)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Mr Amin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tone appears to be moderating,&#8221; which worries some secular minded who fear that his &#8220;apparent lack of fixed beliefs makes [him] dangerous&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/asia\/2018\/12\/01\/indonesias-president-picks-a-muslim-scholar-as-his-running-mate\">Indonesia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s President Picks a Muslim Scholar as His Running Mate<\/a> (Economist)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"speakable\">CNN gave no reason for dropping the Temple University professor after ADL and other Zionist groups objected to his call for &#8216;&#8221;a single secular democratic state for everyone&#8217; in a meeting at the UN marking the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on Wednesday&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/11\/cnn-fires-contributor-marc-lamont-hill-criticising-israel-181130061452765.html\">CNN Fires Contributor Marc Lamont Hill for Criticising Israel<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; &#8220;It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t matter if justice is on your side. You have to depict your position as just.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8212; Benjamin Netanyahu.\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;The best answer to propaganda is not counter-propaganda \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s understanding how propaganda operates so it can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t work on you anymore. \u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8212; Roger Waters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.occupationmovie.org\/\">The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel&#8217;s Public Relations War in the United States<\/a> (www.occupationmovie.org)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;In recent weeks, Israel has arrested dozens of Palestinian activists for alleged illegal political activity. 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