{"id":20038,"date":"2019-02-10T07:22:31","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T12:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20038"},"modified":"2019-02-10T07:22:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T12:22:33","slug":"news-and-analysis-2-10-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20038","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (2\/10\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a 5-4 vote the Supreme Court denied a Circuit Court&#8217;s wish to\u00c2\u00a0 hear the condemned Muslim&#8217;s plea for religious equality &#8220;with little briefing and no argument \u00e2\u20ac\u201d just so the State can meet its preferred execution date&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montgomeryadvertiser.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2019\/02\/07\/after-scotus-ruling-alabama-executes-domineque-ray-for-1995-selma-murder\/2809226002\/\">Alabama Executes Domineque Ray for 1995 Selma Murder<\/a> (Montgomery Advertiser)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Musawwsah, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musawah.org\/about-musawah\">a global movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family,<\/a> has\u00c2\u00a0produced a\u00c2\u00a0video on\u00c2\u00a0why it is essential to distinguish between \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<em>Shari\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ah<\/em>, <em>Fiqh<\/em> and State Laws\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musawah.org\/knowledge-building-video-1-shari%E2%80%99ah-fiqh-and-state-laws\">Knowledge Building Video #1: Shari\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ah, Fiqh and State Laws<\/a> (Musawah)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;There is no room for the government in a woman&#8217;s closet&#8221; &#8211;\u00c2\u00a0National Council of Canadian Muslims Montreal representative Razia Hamidi:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysabah.com\/americas\/2019\/02\/08\/quebec-status-of-women-minister-in-hot-water-over-muslim-headscarf-comments\">Quebec Status of Women Minister in Hot Water over Muslim Headscarf Comments<\/a> (Daily Sabah)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Muslims in America and Turkey oppose Chinese concentration camps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2019\/02\/08\/us-muslim-leaders-call-on-china-to-end-persecution-of-uighurs\/\">US Muslim Leaders Call on China to End Persecution of Uighurs<\/a> (Religion News Service)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5526022\/turkey-china-concentration-camps-uighurs\/\">Turkey Demands China Close &#8216;Concentration Camps&#8217; Holding Muslim Uighurs<\/a> (Time)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-elm-loc=\"3\">Sunni&#8217;s initial reaction that &#8220;the tyrants can be brought down,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was succeeded by &#8220;divisions &#8230; inflamed by the sectarian bloodshed that followed the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, Syria\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s long civil war and the regional rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/irans-islamic-revolution-inspired-divided-militants\/2019\/02\/10\/fa82ccf6-2d01-11e9-906e-9d55b6451eb4_story.html?utm_term=.4edecacf679e\">Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Revolution Bridged Sectarian Rift Before Deepening It<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Muslim ban inadvertently helped a Muslim woman filmmaker break Hollywood barriers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/how-to-succeed-in-hollywood-as-a-muslim-woman\/4779751.html\">How to Succeed in Hollywood as a Muslim Woman<\/a> (VoA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Although Shahid\u00c2\u00a0 Shafi calls the\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/state\/texas\/article223933285.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">139-49 vote<\/a> &#8220;to keep [him] as one of the party\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vice chairmen&#8221; &#8230; a stand &#8216;against bigotry of all kinds,'&#8221; he insists,\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I hold no animosity toward anybody in this group\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/news\/politics-government\/state-politics\/article226032845.html\">Tarrant Muslim Who Survived Party Ouster Urges Republicans to Unite, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcMove Forward\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/a> (Star-Telegram)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a 5-4 vote the Supreme Court denied a Circuit Court&#8217;s wish to\u00c2\u00a0 hear the condemned Muslim&#8217;s plea for religious equality &#8220;with little briefing and no argument \u00e2\u20ac\u201d just so the State can meet its preferred execution date&#8221;: Alabama Executes Domineque Ray for 1995 Selma Murder (Montgomery Advertiser) Musawwsah, a global movement for equality and [&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-20038","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\/20038","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=20038"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20045,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20038\/revisions\/20045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}