{"id":19858,"date":"2018-12-22T07:12:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T12:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=19858"},"modified":"2018-12-22T07:12:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T12:12:21","slug":"news-and-analysis-12-22-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=19858","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (12\/22\/18)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the second year Muslims will &#8220;relieve Christian volunteers at St. Peter&#8217;s  Episcopal Church&#8221; to provides&#8221;a break for Manna  Community Meal volunteers so they can prepare their family&#8217;s holiday  meals&#8221;: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/wsbt.com\/news\/regional\/muslim-volunteers-serving-meals-in-detroit-on-christmas-eve-12-21-2018\">Muslim Volunteers Serving Meals in Detroit on Christmas Eve<\/a> (WSBT)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>When Islam turns statist: &#8220;Once &#8216;Islam&#8217; is injected into public debates, how citizens interpret their religion is transformed from a private act of faith into a matter of national security&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/articles\/middle-east\/2018-12-07\/rise-islamic-soft-power?spJobID=1542898728&amp;spMailingID=58093178&amp;spReportId=MTU0Mjg5ODcyOAS2&amp;spUserID=NTgwMTU3NDM1NDQS1&amp;sp_mid=58093178&amp;sp_rid=YWhtYWRAbWluYXJldC5vcmcS1\">The Rise of Islamic Soft Power<\/a> (Foreign Affairs)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Chinese concentration camps, mass slaughter in Myanmar, pogroms in India, mowed down (along with Christians) in Palestine, demonized and persecuted in the U.S. and Europe, and mistreated in the Muslim world:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/muslim-cleansing-global-pandemic-181220084045168.html\">Muslim Cleansing: A Global Pandemic?<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Many Iranian ex-pats see the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interpretation of sanctions as  overly broad, going far beyond the actual restrictions put in place by  the US government. &#8216;They are either incompetent at OFAC interpretation  or racist&#8217;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/12\/20\/18150129\/slack-iran-deactivated-sanctions-license-cuba-crimea\">Slack Is Banning Some Users with Links to Iran Even if They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve Left the Country<\/a> (The Verge) <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Right-wing extremists in America &#8220;and the Middle Eastern despots they say they despise&#8221; unite to smear two Muslims and a Palestinian Christian democratically elected to Congress &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5486886\/saudi-white-nationalist-attack-muslim-americans\/\">Why Arab Regimes Are Using White Nationalist Lies to Attack Muslim-American Politicians<\/a> (Time)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; and the &#8220;director of Israel outreach&#8221; for Turning Point USA tells students to &#8221; reject calls to find unity&#8221; with the words &#8220;Screw that \u00e2\u20ac\u201d I don&#8217;t want to live in peace with you, you&#8217;re a terrorist&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/turning-point-usa-conference-students-islam-college-campuses-2018-12\">Young Trump Supporters Told They Need to Fight Terrorism on College Campuses by &#8216;Exposing Islam&#8217; Because All Muslims Are &#8216;Radical&#8217;<\/a> (Business Insider)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; while Israel continues to terrorize the Palestinian, health workers and journalists as &#8220;[s]ome 40 Palestinians, including four medics and two journalists, were wounded by Israeli forces in weekly Gaza rallies&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/12\/israeli-forces-kill-palestinian-teen-gaza-protests-officials-181221162905379.html\">Israeli Forces Kill Three Palestinians in Gaza Protests<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; and Messianic Jews and &#8220;Evangelical Christian partners and their allies in the US Republican Party &#8230; [push a plan] to boost the ratio of Jews to non-Jews living in Israel, thus ensuring  continued Jewish dominance&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/israeli-press-review-jews-jesus-pay-palestinians-leave-country\">Israeli Press Review: Jews for Jesus to Pay Palestinians to Leave Their Land<\/a> (Middle East Eye)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Families of the two victims, one a 12-year-old boy, say they won&#8217;t give up on justice as those convicted plan appeal&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/12\/india-life-sentence-lynching-muslim-cattle-traders-181221161750872.html\">India: Eight Get Life Sentence for Lynching Muslim Cattle Traders<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A new poll of Palestinians shows about &#8220;two thirds are dissatisfied with the reconciliation government, &#8230; 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