{"id":20207,"date":"2019-03-28T05:53:07","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T10:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20207"},"modified":"2019-03-28T05:53:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T10:53:08","slug":"news-and-analysis-3-28-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20207","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (3\/28\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is disturbing that even in the 21st century some Virginians cant morally distinguish killing chickens for food from enslaving humans for the color of their skin:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/27\/squawking-nimbys-fail-to-doom-halal-chic?utm_medium=email\">Squawking NIMBYs Fail to Doom Halal Chicken Slaughterhouse<\/a> (Reason)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>&#8220;CelebrateMercy, has over the past two years <a href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/news\/national\/414552\/muslims-have-raised-lots-of-money-for-jews-recently-heres-where-its-going\/\">given $115,000<\/a> to vandalized Jewish cemeteries and memorials &#8230;, and <a href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/news\/breaking-news\/414957\/muslims-give-crowdfunded-238k-to-jewish-pittsburgh-as-conspiracy-theories\/\">facilitated<\/a> the donation of around $238,000 to the Tree of Life &#8230; Congregation in Pittsburgh&#8221;:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/fast-forward\/421596\/muslim-charity-vandalized-jewish-cemetery\/\">Muslim Charity Gives $5K To Repair Vandalized Jewish Cemetery<\/a> (Forward)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;[B]ased upon the separation of state and society, &#8230; [Islam] brought down the walls separating regional civilizations &#8230; and gave birth to some of [its] most celebrated historical figures in culture, science, and art&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jadaliyya.com\/Details\/38472\/Edmund-Burke-III-and-Robert-Mankin,-eds,-Islam-and-World-History-The-Ventures-of-Marshall-Hodgson-New-Texts-Out-Now?utm_source=Arab%2BStudies%2BInstitute%2BMailing%2BList&amp;utm_campaign=1f46a75406-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_11_12_52_COPY_06&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_fa9122f438-1f46a75406-158609581&amp;mc_cid=1f46a75406&amp;mc_eid=78ea55c6ee\">Edmund Burke III and Robert Mankin, eds., Islam and World History: The Ventures of Marshall Hodgson<\/a> (Jadaliyya)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Her message to the hypocrites in office: &#8220;You cannot march with us against the Muslim Ban as you condemn Congresswoman Omar and sign off large military packages to an apartheid state&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/opinion\/2019\/03\/politicians-must-support-the-muslim-community-even-when-theyre-not-here-or-well-find-someone-who-will-activist-says.html\">Politicians Must Support the Muslim Community Even When They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re Not Here, or We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll Find Someone Who Will, Activist Says<\/a> (nj.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; &#8220;[T]he idea of Muslims and Jews as naturally opposed is an extension of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, in hopes to reduce the political conflict to a religious one &#8230;. [and to] pit Muslims and Jews against one another&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2019\/03\/26\/ilhan-omar-aipac-black-muslim-woman\/\">The Three Intersecting Reasons Ilhan Omar Gets Singled Out<\/a> (The Intercept)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[I]n feminist circles&#8230; [t]here is seldom more than one Muslim woman in the room, much less a black Muslim woman. These spaces lack a fundamental understanding of Muslimah agency&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.teenvogue.com\/story\/listen-to-muslim-women-this-muslim-womens-day\">Listening to Muslim Women Is More Important This Muslim Women&#8217;s Day Than Ever Before<\/a> (Teen Vogue)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and &#8220;there are only 3 Muslim MEPs out of a total of 751. And since they are all men, Muslim women are invisible in the EU parliament (with the exception of some of the cleaners)&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2019\/03\/27\/i-am-muslim-i-was-born-and-bred-in-germany-but-i-do-not-identify-as-a-german-view\">I Am a Muslim, I Was Born and Bred in Germany but I Do Not Identify as a German<\/a>(Euronews)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Her intimate portraits highlight Muslim women of all ages, backgrounds, and careers &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 to combat stereotypical and monolithic representations of Muslim women and create a space of inclusion and belonging&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elle.com\/culture\/a26921762\/alia-youssef-the-sisters-project\/\">Alia Youssef&#8217;s &#8216;The Sisters Project&#8217; Gives Muslim Women Space to Define Themselves<\/a> (Elle)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Issa Amro &#8230; was arrested by Palestinian security forces &#8230; after\u00c2\u00a0 criticizing the Palestinian authorities on Facebook for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maannews.com\/Content.aspx?id=778953\" data-ga=\"event,Outgoing links,Click,external\">arresting a journalist<\/a> in Hebron who had been critical of President Mahmoud Abbas&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2019\/03\/palestine-authorities-must-drop-charges-against-human-rights-defender-issa-amro-for-peaceful-criticism\/\">Palestine: Authorities Must Drop Charges Against Human Rights Defender Issa Amro for Peaceful Criticism<\/a> (Amnesty International)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is disturbing that even in the 21st century some Virginians cant morally distinguish killing chickens for food from enslaving humans for the color of their skin: Squawking NIMBYs Fail to Doom Halal Chicken Slaughterhouse (Reason) &#8220;CelebrateMercy, has over the past two years given $115,000 to vandalized Jewish cemeteries and memorials &#8230;, and facilitated 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-20207","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\/20207","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=20207"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20220,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20207\/revisions\/20220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}