{"id":20348,"date":"2019-04-28T05:10:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T10:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20348"},"modified":"2019-04-28T05:10:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-28T10:10:18","slug":"news-and-analysis-4-28-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20348","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (4\/28\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anonymous students seek to silence Pink Floyd&#8217;s Roger Waters, Women&#8217;s March co-chair Linda Sarsour, Prof. Marc Lamont Hill\u00c2\u00a0 (&#8220;fired by CNN for supporting &#8230; a boycott of Israel&#8221;),\u00c2\u00a0 and Jewish critic of Israel Dave Zirin&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gazettenet.com\/Students-file-suit-to-stop-UMass-Israel-Palestine-panel-25137988\">Students File Lawsuit to Stop UMass Israel, Palestine Panel<\/a> (Daily Hampshire Gazette)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Kindness is a mark of faith. Those who aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t kind have no faith -Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him)&#8221; &#8212; caption from her viral Twitter post:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/human-interest\/muslim-woman-poses-in-front-of-islamophobic-protesters\/\">Muslim Woman Poses with Smile in Front of Islamophobic Protesters: &#8216;I Wanted Them to See My Joy&#8217;<\/a> (People)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;A man in California &#8230; faces eight counts of attempted murder for injuring eight people, including a 13-year-old girl, &#8230; currently in a coma with severe brain trauma&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/04\/man-rammed-car-pedestrians-thinking-muslim-190427082620270.html\">US Man Rammed Car into Pedestrians Thinking They Were Muslim<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Zarif&#8217;s comparison of an Iranian woman detained in Australia at U.S. request to Iran&#8217;s detention of a British-American woman has some thinking a swap might be arranged:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2019\/04\/25\/asia\/nazanin-zaghari-ratcliffe-prisoner-swap-intl\/index.html\">Iran Offers Prisoner Swap Which Could See Jailed Charity Worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Freed<\/a> (CNN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To help boost &#8220;the skills and competencies of &#8230; [advocates] for Palestine &#8230; [speakers] from the Jewish Voice for Labour addressed participants and discussed the definition of anti-Semitism&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20190425-palestine-and-anti-semitism-workshop-held-in-uk\/\">Palestine and Anti-Semitism Workshop Held in UK<\/a> (Middle East Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Americans have more favorable views of the Israeli and Palestinian <em>peoples <\/em>than of their <em>governments<\/em>&#8220;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2019\/04\/24\/a-new-perspective-on-americans-views-of-israelis-and-palestinians\/\">A New Perspective on Americans\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00c2\u00a0 Views of Israelis and Palestinians<\/a> (Pew Research)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An employee called the police to check on the welfare of a homeless woman washing up in the Muslim manner after using the restroom, but she was arrested when she asked for more time to clean up after herself:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wtkr.com\/2019\/04\/26\/muslim-woman-says-she-was-practicing-religious-custom-when-arrested-ohio-police-say-she-refused-to-leave-restroom\/\">Muslim Woman Says She Was Practicing Religious Custom when Arrested; Ohio Police Say She Refused to Leave Restroom<\/a> (WTKR)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Islam rejects the notion that the sins of the father are visited upon the children, yet hitherto the UAE has denied innocent children a birth certificate because their parents violated it marriage laws:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/international\/world-news\/uae-gives-birth-certificate-to-girl-born-to-hindu-father-and-muslim-mother\/articleshow\/69079706.cms\">UAE Gives Birth Certificate to Girl Born to Hindu Father and Muslim Mother<\/a> (Economic Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Having grown up in secular France, yet curious about her ancestral Iran, an investigative reporter lived there for a decade, and has written a book about how the experience affected her:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/podcast\/land-of-paradoxes-the-inner-and-outer-iran-with-delphine-minoui\">Land of Paradoxes: the Inner and Outer Iran \u00e2\u20ac\u201c with Delphine Minoui<\/a> (Big Think)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anonymous students seek to silence Pink Floyd&#8217;s Roger Waters, Women&#8217;s March co-chair Linda Sarsour, Prof. Marc Lamont Hill\u00c2\u00a0 (&#8220;fired by CNN for supporting &#8230; a boycott of Israel&#8221;),\u00c2\u00a0 and Jewish critic of Israel Dave Zirin&#8221;: Students File Lawsuit to Stop UMass Israel, Palestine Panel (Daily Hampshire Gazette) &#8220;&#8216;Kindness is a mark of faith. 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