{"id":20146,"date":"2019-03-11T06:02:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T11:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20146"},"modified":"2019-03-11T06:02:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T11:02:46","slug":"news-and-analysis-3-11-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20146","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (3\/11\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lebanese-American businessman George Nader&#8221; reported &#8220;that [at the] meeting &#8230; the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia wanted to aid Trump in his bid for the White House&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/national-security\/433311-erik-prince-acknowledges-attending-2016-trump-tower-meeting-to-talk\">Erik Prince Acknowledges Attending 2016 Trump Tower Meeting &#8216;to Talk About Iran Policy&#8217;<\/a> (The Hill)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Palestinians like\u00c2\u00a0 the &#8220;15-year-old lay <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/middle-east-news\/palestinians\/15-year-old-palestinian-dies-after-succumbing-to-wounds-by-life-fire-in-gaza-protest-1.6999815\" data-ylk=\"subsec:paragraph;cpos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-rapid-parsed=\"slk\" data-rapid_p=\"2\" data-v9y=\"1\">dying<\/a> &#8230; after being shot in the head by Israeli soldiers &#8230; didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get a mention in the resolution Democratic leadership pushed through &#8230; that condemned various forms of hate&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/ilhan-omar-palestinians_n_5c82f5dee4b0d93616281ab3\">Rep. Ilhan Omar Wanted to Discuss Palestine. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Happened There Since<\/a> (Huffington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;After Parveen was released from custody and spoke to HuffPost in an earlier article about being fed pork,&#8221; his green card was denied and he now faces possible deportation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/433318-muslim-man-denied-green-card-after-being-detained-by-border-control-and\">Muslim Man Denied Green Card After Being Detained, Allegedly Served Pork: Report<\/a> (The Hill)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The school now claims that as a private school it need not honor its &#8220;offer [to] the boys\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s parents [of] a &#8216;generally positive indication of acceptance&#8217; of prayers&#8221; and its suggestion of available space in the library:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalpost.com\/news\/canada\/back-to-the-beginning-for-human-rights-case-over-muslim-prayer-in-private-school\">Back to the Beginning for Human Rights Case over Muslim Prayer in Private School<\/a> (National Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Ramy &#8230; is a practicing Muslim who truly believes in his faith, and that alone makes a show centering on his experience a startling, welcome exception to an increasingly monotonous rule&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2019\/tv\/reviews\/ramy-hulu-review-sxsw-1203158546\/\">TV Review: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcRamy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/a> (Variety)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Al-Issa noted the Qur&#8217;an explains that God deliberately created diverse people, and opined that &#8220;only an aware group of people will be able to overcome [negative] difference by realizing God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wisdom in diversity&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1464736\/saudi-arabia\">Diversity Is Part of Human Nature, Says Muslim World League Chief Al-Issa<\/a> (Arab News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and a Malaysian argues that the Qur&#8217;an teaches that &#8220;differences of opinions but they are meant for human beings to achieve progress and happiness through the course of life&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freemalaysiatoday.com\/category\/opinion\/2019\/03\/11\/no-place-for-racism-in-islam\/\">No Place for Racism in Islam<\/a> (Free Malaysia Today)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lebanese-American businessman George Nader&#8221; reported &#8220;that [at the] meeting &#8230; the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia wanted to aid Trump in his bid for the White House&#8221;: Erik Prince Acknowledges Attending 2016 Trump Tower Meeting &#8216;to Talk About Iran Policy&#8217; (The Hill) Palestinians like\u00c2\u00a0 the &#8220;15-year-old lay dying &#8230; after being shot in the [&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-20146","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\/20146","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=20146"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20152,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20146\/revisions\/20152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}