{"id":19979,"date":"2019-01-27T07:41:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T12:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=19979"},"modified":"2019-01-27T07:41:56","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T12:41:56","slug":"news-and-analysis-1-27-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=19979","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (1\/27\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The failure to free Ramadan despite the collapse of the case against him would be surprising were it not for the context that Muslims, 9% of the French population are the majority of its prisoners:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecordobafoundation.com\/publication.php?id=2&amp;art=93\">A Travesty of Justice&#8211;the Incarceration of Tariq Ramadan<\/a> (Cordoba Foundation)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Hashemi, a dual U.S.-Iranian citizen who has worked in Iran for about 25 years, was arrested this month &#8230; in St. Louis, where she had been working on a documentary about Black Lives Matter&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/legal-issues\/journalist-contends-her-arrest-without-charge-in-us-was-tied-to-work-for-state-funded-iran-media\/2019\/01\/25\/0faa7dca-20ed-11e9-8b59-0a28f2191131_story.html?utm_term=.cc9b10122063\">Journalist Contends Her Arrest Without Charge in U.S. Was Tied to Work for State-funded Iran Media<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pompeo&#8217;s pronouncements evoke memories of Hillary Clinton&#8217;s declaration that Bashar Assad &#8220;had &#8216;<a class=\"LinkWrapper LinkWrapper--external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-syria\/clinton-says-syrias-assad-has-lost-legitimacy-idUSLDE76A0I620110712\">lost legitimacy<\/a>,&#8217; &#8230; as if he were finished&#8221; but &#8220;[t]hat did not end well &#8230; sadly it hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ended yet&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trump-support-for-venezuela-regime-change-is-very-risky-business\">Will Venezuela and Iran Become Trump\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSavage Wars of Peace\u00e2\u20ac\u2122?<\/a> (Daily Beast)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; Gulf autocrats welcomed Trump as one of their own, but now his &#8220;policies&#8221; have left them bewildered &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/us-news\/.premium-arab-states-scramble-to-divine-trump-s-middle-east-policy-1.6873182\">Two Years In, Gulf States Disappointed in Trump on Everything From Iran to Peace<\/a> (Haaretz)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; but\u00c2\u00a0Iran &#8220;understands Iraq\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s political needs very well, and it has actually encouraged successive Iraqi governments to give Sunnis an honorable place in Iraqi politics to maintain stability&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/us-news\/.premium-trump-terror-and-tomatoes-as-u-s-eyes-iraq-buildup-iran-may-stand-to-gain-1.6873271\">Trump, Terror and Tomatoes: As U.S. Eyes Iraq Buildup, Iran May Stand to Gain<\/a> (Haaretz)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[U]nless the US can swiftly move to get this plane out of Iran, it will constitute an increasingly luminous testament to what some people see as America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s propensity to be an international bully&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/travel\/news-and-advice\/norwegian-plane-iran-stranded-trump-sanctions-airport-shiraz-a8747816.html\">What Will Happen to the Norwegian Jet Stranded in Iran Due to Trump\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Sanctions?<\/a> (Independent)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Muslim-Christian relations have, over the centuries, oscillated between conflict, coexistence and conversation&#8221; and today the relationship is at &#8220;a low point that has seen some reaching for comparisons with the Crusades&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/arts-culture\/islam-and-christianity-a-long-complex-and-crucial-relationship-1.818103\">Islam and Christianity: a Long, Complex and Crucial Relationship<\/a> (The National)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wilmington &#8220;will revise its dress code policies for city-operated aquatic facilities to ensure &#8230; that the dress code accommodates clothing worn for religious reasons or financial hardship&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/afro.com\/civil-rights-org-muslim-advocates-settles-pool-discrimination-lawsuit\/\">Civil Rights Org, Muslim Advocates, Settles Pool Discrimination Lawsuit<\/a> (Afro)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On a train in Europe, a Saudi learns something about observant Jews from an Orthodox rabbi:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gulfnews.com\/opinion\/op-eds\/a-rendezvous-between-a-muslim-and-a-jew-1.61663807\">A Rendezvous Between a Muslim and a Jew<\/a> (Gulf News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Israel calls Irish sanctions of thieves of Palestinian land a form of Antisemitism, but the Irish, themselves have endured colonial occupation, don&#8217;t see it that way:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/israel-slams-irish-parliament-for-advancing-anti-semitic-settlement-ban-1.6873960\">Israel Slams Irish Parliament for Advancing &#8216;Hypocritical, anti-Semitic&#8217; 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