{"id":20357,"date":"2019-05-01T04:44:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T09:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20357"},"modified":"2019-05-01T04:44:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T09:44:38","slug":"news-and-analysis-5-1-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20357","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (5\/1\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The argument that Islam is not a religion has &#8220;nothing to do with a philosophical interrogation of &#8216;religion&#8217; generally&#8221; but is actually about &#8220;depriving Muslims of rights&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2019\/04\/30\/asma-uddin-if-we-deprive-islam-of-its-status-as-a-religion-all-religion-is-threatened\/\">Asma Uddin: If We Deprive Islam of Its Status as a Religion, All Religion Is Threatened<\/a> (Religion News Service)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Churches that &#8220;held solidarity events with the [Muslims] after the Christchurch shootings&#8221; have been targeted for pamphlets proclaiming &#8220;Islam is the enemy, this is a declaration of war, this is them versus us&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvnz.co.nz\/one-news\/new-zealand\/palmerston-north-churches-targeted-anti-muslim-pamphlets\">Palmerston North Churches Targeted with Anti-Muslim Pamphlets<\/a> (TVNZ)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;In the 1960s, &#8230; the Brotherhood formally codified its opposition to violence in a tract titled, &#8216;Preachers, Not Judges'&#8221; and &#8220;there has been no evidence since then that the &#8230; organization &#8230; has engaged in violence&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/04\/30\/world\/middleeast\/is-the-muslim-brotherhood-terrorist.html\">Is the Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Group?<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;In 1991 [SIS] published &#8230; <em>Are Women &amp; Men Equal Before Allah?<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0that advocated the message of equality in Islam, and <em>Are Muslim Men Allowed to Beat Their Wives?&#8221;<\/em> in support criminalizing domestic violence&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malaymail.com\/news\/malaysia\/2019\/05\/01\/with-regime-change-sisters-in-islam-finds-new-support...but-also-new-challe\/1748571\">With Regime Change, Sisters in Islam Finds New Support&#8230; but Also New Challenges<\/a> (Malay Mail)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;They will be forced out of public spaces to stay at home and will be unable to work, study or access basic services. The ban violates their rights to non-discrimination, freedom of expression and religion&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2019\/04\/sri-lanka-ban-on-face-veil-risks-stigmatizing-muslim-women\/\">Sri Lanka: Ban on Face-veil Risks Stigmatizing Muslim Women<\/a> (Amnesty International)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Competition between Iraq\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s two main external backers polarizes its politics and paralyzes day-to-day operations. &#8230; It must reduce its binary dependency on Washington and Tehran&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2019\/04\/30\/dont-let-iraq-fall-victim-to-u-s-iran-rivalry-trump-sanctions-irgc-abdul-mahdi\/\">Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Let Iraq Fall Victim to U.S.-Iran Rivalry<\/a> (Foreign Policy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The &#8220;Pakistani national anthem is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/651435\">almost entirely<\/a> in Persian. &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 Prominent Pakistanis such as the country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and its first president Iskander Mirza, were Shia Muslims&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trtworld.com\/opinion\/don-t-underestimate-pakistan-s-relationship-with-iran-26251\/amp\/?utm_source=googlenewsstand&amp;utm_medium=amp_rss\">Don&#8217;t Underestimate Pakistan&#8217;s Relationship with Iran<\/a> (TRT World)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Can someone explain why Palestinian deaths at the hands of illegal Israeli settlers and IDF terrorists is not news?&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2019\/04\/30\/palestine-and-news-bias\/\">Palestine and News Bias<\/a> (Counterpunch)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The argument that Islam is not a religion has &#8220;nothing to do with a philosophical interrogation of &#8216;religion&#8217; generally&#8221; but is actually about &#8220;depriving Muslims of rights&#8221;: Asma Uddin: If We Deprive Islam of Its Status as a Religion, All Religion Is Threatened (Religion News Service) Churches that &#8220;held solidarity events with the [Muslims] after [&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-20357","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\/20357","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=20357"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20365,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20357\/revisions\/20365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}