{"id":19795,"date":"2018-12-07T07:33:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T12:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=19795"},"modified":"2018-12-07T07:33:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T12:33:05","slug":"news-and-analysis-12-7-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=19795","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (12\/7\/18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Blocking Regulation would make it illegal for European companies to comply with U.S. sanctions against Iran&#8221; and in January &#8220;the EU unveils a new electronic payment system designed to move money in and out of Iran without American scrutiny&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/2018\/12\/06\/world\/eu-moves-shield-companies-trade-iran-us-sanctions\">EU Moves to Shield Companies that Trade with Iran from U.S. Sanctions<\/a> (Marketplace)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and American banks &#8220;fear they could be subject to major lawsuits in Europe unless granted a license from the Treasury Department to follow the letter of both EU and U.S. law &#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/economy\/us-banks-push-for-relief-from-potential-iran-sanctions-catch-22\">US Banks Push for Relief from Potential Iran Sanctions Catch-22<\/a> (Washington Examiner)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; as the recent\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/news\/press-releases\/sm556\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">designation of two Iranians<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0&#8220;for allegedly using bitcoin to facilitate &#8216;malign activities&#8217; and payments &#8230; was the first time that US sanctions targeted digital currency addresses&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2018\/12\/iran-cryptocurrency-blockchain-swift-russia-agreement.html\">US Sanctions Accelerate Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Blockchain Drive<\/a> (Al-Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and &#8220;all three pillars of Trump\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s policy of strangulating Iran are at risk&#8221; because of the Khashoggi murder, Netanyahi&#8217;s &#8220;existential fight for his political future,&#8221; and &#8220;political obstacles&#8221; Trump faces in the wake of the mid-term elections:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/think\/opinion\/trump-s-international-anti-iran-coalition-looks-it-s-falling-ncna943736\">Trump&#8217;s International Anti-Iran Coalition Looks Like It&#8217;s Falling Apart. He Doesn&#8217;t Have a Back-up Plan<\/a> (NBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The play has been called a &#8220;Muslim Godspell&#8221; by one audience member and calls itself &#8220;the story of &#8216;a love affair between Islam and Jesus.'&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 The Silk Road Rising Executive Director says, &#8220;In light of the #MeToo movement, Mary\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s prominence in the play and in the Quran adds to the show\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s timeliness&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2018\/12\/05\/a-new-play-christmas-mubarak-mixes-christian-and-muslim-stories-of-jesus-birth\/\">A New Play, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcChristmas Mubarak,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Mixes Christian and Muslim Stories of Jesus\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Birth<\/a> (RNS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sustainable Development Goals are inadequate without\u00c2\u00a0the Maqasid ash-Shariah &#8220;safeguarding the faith &#8230;, protecting the self from harm &#8230;, protecting the intellect &#8230;, safeguarding the progeny &#8230; and protecting&#8221; property without bias &#8220;towards gender, nationality, ethnicity, or social status&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesundaily.my\/local\/muslim-women-must-come-forward-says-dr-wan-azizah-MC224196\">Muslim Women Must Come Forward, Says Dr Wan Azizah<\/a> (Sun Daily)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>The Emir of Kano maintains &#8220;that during the regime of Second Caliph, Umar bn Khattab and fifth Caliph Umar bn AbdulAziz , no one was poor enough in their communities to receive Zakat because the one distributed in the previous year made them to be self-reliant&#8221;:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2018\/12\/this-pillar-of-islam-ll-eradicate-poverty-emir-sanusi\/\">This Pillar of Islam \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcll Eradicate Poverty\u00e2\u20ac\u201d Emir Sanusi<\/a> (Vanguard)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>After intense debate students voted overwhelmingly for Columbia to divest from companies &#8220;from companies that &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.columbiaspectator.com\/news\/2018\/04\/18\/barnard-sga-referendum-on-divestment-from-israeli-companies-passes-with-64-support\/\">profit from or engage in the State of Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s treatment of Palestinians<\/a>,&#8221; 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&#8230; EU Moves to Shield Companies that Trade with Iran from U.S. Sanctions (Marketplace) &#8230; [&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-19795","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\/19795","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=19795"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19805,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19795\/revisions\/19805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}