{"id":20186,"date":"2019-03-23T06:13:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T11:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20186"},"modified":"2019-03-23T06:13:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T11:13:44","slug":"news-and-analysis-3-23-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20186","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (3\/23\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Penalties for students &#8220;who criticize the Kingdom while abroad are daunting:  passport freezes, death threats, intimidation, retraction of  scholarships, and attempts to lure them back to the country&#8221;:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/world\/saudi-students-in-u-s-say-their-government-watches-their-every-move\">Saudi Students in U.S. Say Their Government Watches Their Every Move<\/a> (PBS)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;62 Palestinians [were] also wounded by Israeli forces&#8221; and the UN Human Rights Council condemned Israel&#8217;s &#8220;&#8216;apparent  intentional use of unlawful lethal and other excessive force&#8217; against  civilian protesters&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/03\/israeli-forces-kill-palestinians-gaza-protests-190322163832101.html\">Israeli Forces Kill Two Palestinians at Gaza Protests<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I feel like she understands us, and she understands what we need\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 She&#8217;s talking to the world about how you should be treating your Muslim population&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newshub.co.nz\/home\/shows\/2019\/03\/she-understands-us-muslim-leader-on-jacinda-ardern.html\">&#8216;She Understands Us&#8217; &#8211; Muslim Leader on Jacinda Ardern<\/a> (Newshub)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; and &#8220;[i]n a day without precedent, people across New Zealand were planning to observe the Muslim call to prayer Friday&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/9999bf8e19bb454eb1e7b29cfaf448a3\">New Zealand to Observe Muslim Prayer After Mosque Attacks<\/a> (AP)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Religious  detainees have had their religious texts and items confiscated, been  forced to eat forbidden foods, and have even watched as U.S. immigration  agents threw their holy objects into the garbage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/american-civil-liberties-union-complaint-ice-gave-muslim-detainee-only-pork-sandwiches\">Complaint: ICE Gave Muslim Detainee Only Pork Sandwiches<\/a> (Daily Beast)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;An American bigot told her to cease defending Islam because were she to remove her headscarf her father would beat her up, but her Saudi father said, &#8220;That&#8217;s no man&#8217;s decision to make&#8230; I&#8217;ll support you&#8221; either way:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.good.is\/articles\/muslin-dad-hijab-response\">Muslim Dad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Response to His Daughter Wanting to Remove Her Hijab Goes Viral<\/a> (Good)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Several Arabic and Muslim teenagers were assaulted in separate  incidents this past week &#8230; [apparently] by students from John F. Kennedy High School who traveled to South Paterson after school looking for victims&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.northjersey.com\/story\/news\/paterson-press\/2019\/03\/22\/paterson-police-probe-attacks-arab-muslim-students\/3247347002\/\">Police Probe Attacks on Arab and Muslim Students in South Paterson<\/a> (northjersey.com)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Our aim will be that whatever we can do for conciliation in the Middle East, we want to play that role&#8221; &#8212;  Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2019\/03\/iran-saudi-arabia-tension-flare-pakistan-port-oil-china.html\">Saudi-Iran Conflict Threatens to Flare in Pakistan<\/a> (Al-Monitor)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Penalties for students &#8220;who criticize the Kingdom while abroad are daunting: passport freezes, death threats, intimidation, retraction of scholarships, and attempts to lure them back to the country&#8221;: Saudi Students in U.S. Say Their Government Watches Their Every Move (PBS) &#8220;62 Palestinians [were] also wounded by Israeli forces&#8221; and the UN Human Rights Council condemned [&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-20186","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\/20186","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=20186"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20196,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20186\/revisions\/20196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}