{"id":20170,"date":"2019-03-18T05:57:45","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T10:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20170"},"modified":"2019-03-18T05:57:46","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T10:57:46","slug":"news-and-analysis-3-18-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20170","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (3\/18\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;New Zealand Muslim leaders on Monday conveyed messages of love, compassion and appreciation for the community support they had received after a lone gunman &#8230; [killed] 50 people and injur[ed] dozens more&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-newzealand-shootout-muslims\/new-zealand-muslim-leaders-preach-love-compassion-after-mosque-attacks-idUSKCN1QZ0BD\">New Zealand Muslim Leaders Preach Love, Compassion After Mosque Attacks<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;. The first victim responded to the man pointing a rifle at him &#8220;with clear intentions to kill &#8230; [him] with the most gentle and sincere greeting of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dchello brother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/weekend-argus\/news\/first-muslim-to-die-greeted-attacker-19916013\">&#8216;First Muslim to Die, Greeted Attacker&#8217;<\/a> (Independent On Line)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[T]he <a href=\"https:\/\/jewishpgh.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh<\/a> has set up a <a href=\"https:\/\/jfedpgh.org\/new-zealand\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fund for the victims<\/a>.&#8221; of the New Zealand shooting, &#8220;reciprocating the kindness of Pittsburgh&#8217;s Muslim community after&#8221; last year&#8217;s synagogue shooting&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/03\/17\/us\/new-zealand-terror-attack-jewish-community-fundraiser-trnd\/index.html\">Jewish Group Reciprocates Kindness to the Muslim Community in New Zealand After Massacre<\/a> (CNN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[W]hite nationalists\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 major motivators is &#8216;the great replacement&#8217; conspiracy theory. They fear that Jews, blacks and Muslims will replace white people and eventually subordinate them&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/15\/opinion\/new-zealand-mosque-shooting.html?login=email&amp;auth=login-email\">The Roots of the Christchurch Massacre<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[A]nti-market policies of the 1980s &#8230; were &#8230; the result of &#8230; the &#8230; war with Iraq and the flight of the Pahlavi-era upper class. In the early 1990s, &#8230; the government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rhetoric and policies radically shifted to become pro-market&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/order-from-chaos\/2019\/03\/14\/irans-economy-40-years-after-the-islamic-revolution\/\">Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Economy 40 Years After the Islamic Revolution<\/a> (Brookings)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hearing the call to prayer, a college student cried for her &#8220;brothers and sisters suffering around the world &#8230; in Chinese internment camps and &#8230;. in Palestine[,] &#8230;in Afghanistan[,] in Yemen[,] &#8230; here[, and] &#8230; in New Zealand&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailytarheel.com\/article\/2019\/03\/new-zealand-shooting-column-0315\">Column: Finding My Confidence as a Muslim<\/a> (Daily Tar Heel)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;New Zealand Muslim leaders on Monday conveyed messages of love, compassion and appreciation for the community support they had received after a lone gunman &#8230; [killed] 50 people and injur[ed] dozens more&#8221; &#8230; New Zealand Muslim Leaders Preach Love, Compassion After Mosque Attacks (Reuters) &#8230;. 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