{"id":20367,"date":"2019-05-03T09:45:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T14:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20367"},"modified":"2019-05-03T09:46:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T14:46:01","slug":"news-and-analysis-5-3-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20367","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (5\/3\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[K]nowing someone who is Muslim [correlates] with more favorable attitudes toward Muslims. &#8230; An even more powerful factor &#8230; is knowing something about Islam&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/religion\/2019\/05\/02\/anti-muslim-hate-is\/\">Anti-Muslim Hate Is Driven by Politics, Not Faith \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Preventable, Study Shows<\/a> (Religion News Service \/ Salt Lake Tribune)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The attempt by &#8220;three anonymous Jewish students&#8221; to prevent free speech on campus was foiled by &#8220;a <span class=\"html-render\">Suffolk Superior Court judge &#8230; [who] ruled there was no cause to prohibit the speeches before they happen&#8221;:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/metro\/2019\/05\/02\/umass-panel-palestinian-rights-will-proceed\/umbWqKTb1lLQWYZgJLyByH\/story.html\">Judge Refuses to Bar Forum at UMass Amherst on Palestinians\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Rights<\/a> (Boston Globe)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Successful reform requires an end to state interference, for &#8220;French Muslims to build religious organizations in accordance with the <a class=\"js-external-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legifrance.gouv.fr\/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=LEGITEXT000006069570&amp;dateTexte=20090506\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Law on non-profit organizations of 1901<\/a>, and &#8230; [to] organize themselves&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/order-from-chaos\/2019\/05\/01\/islam-made-in-france-debating-the-reform-of-muslim-organizations-and-foreign-funding-for-religion\/\">Islam, Made in France? Debating the Reform of Muslim Organizations and Foreign Funding for Religion<\/a> (Brookings Institution)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Najaf\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s &#8220;colleges are free of state interference, unlike those in Qom. And it is the seat of the most popular Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani &#8230; [who] champions the separation of mosque and state&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/middle-east-and-africa\/2019\/05\/04\/why-shia-clerics-are-turning-on-irans-theocracy\">Why Shia Clerics Are Turning on Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Theocracy<\/a> (Economist)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Experts &#8220;experts warn would make the United States less safe and end up victimizing American Muslims to curry favor with authoritarian allies&#8221; through &#8220;guilt by association&#8221; with a &#8220;diffuse &#8230; &#8216;huge&#8217; array of &#8230; charities&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/experts-warn-against-trump-designating-muslim-brotherhood-terrorist-organization-n1001051\">Experts Warn Against Trump Designating Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Organization<\/a> (NBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A &#8220;devout Muslim who dresses in full hijab, along with an opaque face veil covering everything but her eyes&#8221; finds carrying a Glock 19 after &#8220;being robbed at gunpoint back in 2015&#8230; makes her feel safer&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.philly.com\/opinion\/muslim-gun-concealed-carry-glock-philly-jenice-armstrong-20190502.html\">She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Black, Female, Muslim, Covered \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and Licensed to Carry<\/a> (Philadelphia Inquirer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After telling &#8220;her tenant to find an &#8216;American person &#8230; good like you and me&#8217; to sublease her property instead of a Muslim father and son seeking to open their second restaurant&#8221; she will pay the victims $675,000 to settle:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chron.com\/news\/us\/article\/Landlord-who-refused-to-rent-to-Muslim-men-13815876.php\">Landlord Who Refused to Rent to Muslim Men Settles Lawsuit<\/a> (Chron)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Back in 2010, &#8230; customers &#8230; [who] withdraw their foreign currency deposits from Iranian banks, &#8230; could only get their deposits back in rials &#8230;worth far less than the original foreign currency deposits&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/billions-stuffed-mattresses-iran-190501201552620.html\">&#8216;Billions&#8217; Are Stuffed Under Mattresses in Iran<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;SiriusXM Radio show host Dean Obeidallah is seeking more than $1 million in damages against The Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin, who hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t responded to Obeidallah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s libel lawsuit&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/Muslim host given okay to seek damages from neo-Nazi who called him a terrorist\" data-wplink-url-error=\"true\">Muslim Host Given Okay to Seek Damages from Neo-Nazi Who Called Him a Terrorist<\/a> (Times of Israel)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[K]nowing someone who is Muslim [correlates] with more favorable attitudes toward Muslims. &#8230; An even more powerful factor &#8230; is knowing something about Islam&#8221;: Anti-Muslim Hate Is Driven by Politics, Not Faith \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Preventable, Study Shows (Religion News Service \/ Salt Lake Tribune) The attempt by &#8220;three anonymous Jewish students&#8221; to prevent free [&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-20367","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\/20367","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=20367"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20375,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20367\/revisions\/20375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}