{"id":20101,"date":"2019-02-26T12:52:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T17:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20101"},"modified":"2019-02-26T12:52:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T17:52:35","slug":"news-and-analysis-2-26-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20101","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (2\/26\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most see Macron&#8217;s plan to create &#8220;a French Islam &#8230; as either a patronizing intrusion into their personal lives or a surreptitious expansion of the police state&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2019\/02\/23\/france-islamophobia-islam-french-muslims-terrorism\/\">Libert\u00c3\u00a9 for Whom<\/a> (The Intercept)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">MbS, &#8220;keen to refurbish his personal image and standing, now found himself in the quagmire of India-Pakistan disputes&#8230;. Never have two joint statements been subjected to such close scrutiny&#8221;:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thewire.in\/diplomacy\/mohammed-bin-salmans-foray-into-the-south-asian-quagmire\">Mohammed bin Salman&#8217;s Foray Into the South Asian Quagmire<\/a> (The Wire)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The dean of medicine at the University of Malaya acknowledged a global &#8220;&#8216;tipping point&#8217; on the use of the death penalty in relation to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/drugs.html\">drugs<\/a> amid growing recognition that capital punishment was an ineffective deterrent&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/02\/drug-offence-executions-halve-2018-iran-reform-190225093111142.html\">Drug Offence Executions More than Halve in 2018 After Iran Reform<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The &#8220;presidential chief of staff, in a tweet, &#8216;strongly denied&#8217; that President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/hassan-rouhani.html\">Hassan Rouhani<\/a> had accepted the resignation&#8221; but Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted, &#8220;Zarif is gone. Good riddance&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/02\/zarif-sudden-offer-resign-rattles-iran-rouhani-reply-190226051915419.html\">Zarif&#8217;s Sudden Offer to Resign Rattles Iran, Rouhani Yet to Reply<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kushner admits what we already knew, that the main objective of his secret Middle East plan is to make Iran rather than Israel the pariah of the region:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.i24news.tv\/en\/news\/international\/middle-east\/195977-190225-kushner-mideast-peace-plan-to-focus-on-drawing-borders-unifying-palestinians\">Kushner: Mideast Peace Plan to Focus on Drawing Borders, Unifying Palestinians<\/a> (i24)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Before Black History Month ends, take advantage of it to remind you to read up on the essential connection between Islam and the African-American experience:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teenvogue.com\/story\/the-essential-black-muslim-reading-list\">The Essential Black Muslim Reading List<\/a> (Teen Vogue)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Not all Muslims, not even all &#8220;radical Muslims&#8221; oppose vaccination campaigns. &#8220;Hostility and suspicion .. must be understood in the context of&#8221; groups marginalized by states allied to the West:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/vaccine-hesitancy-muslim-problem-190218092533092.html\">Vaccine Hesitancy Is Not a &#8216;Muslim Problem<\/a>&#8216; (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Qatar\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s deputy prime minister and foreign minister &#8230; [urges] international powers&#8221; to approach the Middle East more inclusively, &#8220;saying one-sided initiatives that excluded either the Iranians or Palestinians [won&#8217;t] work&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/feb\/26\/al-thani-polarisation-causes-instability-in-middle-east-qatar-official-says-iran-palestine\">Polarisation Causes Instability in Middle East, Qatari Official Says<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Israel denies that Kufr Aqab &#8220;residents were paying taxes without receiving any services&#8221; but them why no sewage services and the dependence on the PA for police services and on Palestinian companies for utilities?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.abs-cbn.com\/overseas\/02\/26\/19\/on-jerusalems-edge-a-nowhere-land-for-palestinians\">On Jerusalem&#8217;s Edge, a &#8216;Nowhere Land&#8217; for Palestinians<\/a> (AFP \/ ABC-CBN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most see Macron&#8217;s plan to create &#8220;a French Islam &#8230; as either a patronizing intrusion into their personal lives or a surreptitious expansion of the police state&#8221;: Libert\u00c3\u00a9 for Whom (The Intercept) MbS, &#8220;keen to refurbish his personal image and standing, now found himself in the quagmire of India-Pakistan disputes&#8230;. 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