{"id":19892,"date":"2018-12-30T06:58:01","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T11:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=19892"},"modified":"2018-12-30T06:58:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T11:58:03","slug":"news-and-analysis-12-30-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=19892","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (12\/30\/18)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Safeidin Chapman is released after ten years in jail for playing paintball after the Supreme Court rules defining as &#8220;violent&#8221; acts that involve neither violent actions nor intention are unconstitutional:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/legal-issues\/fuzzy-language-in-law-leads-to-reversals-in-gun-cases\/2018\/12\/28\/88374154-fe2b-11e8-ad40-cdfd0e0dd65a_story.html?utm_term=.d77693a56a2b\">\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcFuzzy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Language in Law Leads to Reversals in Gun Cases<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8216;Journalist Rania Khalek, whose video was restored after public outcry, says the ability of social media giants &#8220;to disappear content as they please&#8221; is &#8220;creepy and alarming and should be loudly opposed'&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/12\/28\/facebooks-secret-censorship-manual-exposed-platform-takes-down-video-about-israel\">Facebook&#8217;s Secret Censorship Manual Exposed as Platform Takes Down Video About Israel Terrorizing Palestinians<\/a> (Common Dreams)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[T]he appeal was based on the fact that owners of the land in question have deeds proving ownership and therefore the land should not be classified as state land as claimed by Israel&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.egypttoday.com\/Article\/2\/62747\/Palestine-s-commission-appeals-Israeli-govt-s-land-grab-to\">Palestine&#8217;s Commission Appeals Israeli Govt&#8217;s Land-grab to High Court<\/a> (Egypt Today)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Detained &#8220;legislators, journalists, women, and children&#8221; are among those subject to &#8220;solitary confinement, in small, cold, damp cells, with no covers. Detainees are subjected to high fines, torture, extended interrogation&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/imemc.org\/article\/report-israeli-soldiers-abducted-6489-palestinians-including-250-children-in-2018\/\">Report: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Israeli Soldiers Abducted 6489 Palestinians, Including 250 Children, in 2018<\/a> (International Middle East Media Center)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/politics\/immigration\/2018\/12\/28\/migrant-children-deaths-health-warnings-came-months-earlier-border-patrol-jaklein-caal-felipe-gomez\/2416379002\/\"> immigrant children die in American detention<\/a>, &#8220;a non-profit Muslim charity from Dallas&#8221; has &#8220;treated 13 sick families so far, including an infant they sent to the emergency room&#8221; :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/community\/muslim-charity-provides-free-medical-exams-for-migrants-in-el-paso\/1679391048\">Muslim Charity Provides Free Medical Exams for Migrants in El Paso<\/a> (KTSM)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>She &#8220;has helped more than 1,700 women escape from problems including forced marriage and honour-based violence&#8221; because her &#8220;faith tells me I need to stand for equality and justice&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-birmingham-46693941\">New Year Honours 2019: Muslim Women&#8217;s Network Director Appointed MBE<\/a> (BBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As government authorities pat down and detain Muslim women for, and even strip women of, their modest dress, Nike, Gucci, Versace, &#8220;and other luxury brands&#8221; rush to embrace, and capitalize on, it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2018\/12\/29\/muslim-women-hijab-fashion-capitalism\/\">Marketing the Muslim Woman: Hijabs and Modest Fashion Are the New Corporate Trend in the Trump Era<\/a> (The Intercept)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>First Pakistan, then Malaysia, and now the Organization of Islamic Cooperation have spoken up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/muslim-countries-standing-up-to-china-over-uighur-muslim-oppression-2018-12\">A Wall of Silence Around China&#8217;s Oppression of Its Muslim Minority Is Starting to Crumble<\/a> (Business Insider)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Has Trump&#8217;s squeeze on foreign investment provoked a surge in Iranian domestic enterprise? &#8220;The volumes of investments show a 59.3% and 133.7% growth respectively compared with the same period of last year&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/financialtribune.com\/articles\/domestic-economy\/95853\/iran-industrial-investment-growing\">Iran: Industrial Investment Growing<\/a> (Financial Tribune)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and the sale of kiwis alone has jumped 300% thanks to the fall of the rial:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/financialtribune.com\/articles\/domestic-economy\/95855\/iran-kiwi-exports-from-northern-province-quadruple\">Iran Kiwi Exports From Northern Province Quadruple<\/a> (Financial Tribune)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safeidin Chapman is released after ten years in jail for playing paintball after the Supreme Court rules defining as &#8220;violent&#8221; acts that involve neither violent actions nor intention are unconstitutional: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcFuzzy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Language in Law Leads to Reversals in Gun Cases (Washington Post) &#8216;Journalist Rania Khalek, whose video was restored after public outcry, says the ability [&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-19892","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\/19892","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=19892"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19901,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19892\/revisions\/19901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}