{"id":20569,"date":"2019-06-13T04:03:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T09:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20569"},"modified":"2019-06-13T04:03:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T09:03:52","slug":"news-and-analysis-6-13-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20569","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (6\/13\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The neo-Nazi organ that &#8220;falsely claimed that [Dean] Obeidallah  planned and executed the horrific terrorist attack that took place at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester&#8221; must pay the comedian\/activist $4.1 million:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.muslimadvocates.org\/court-awards-muslim-commentator-4-1-million-in-lawsuit-against-founder-of-neo-nazi-website\/\">First Lawsuit Against Daily Stormer to Reach Resolution<\/a> (Muslim Advocates)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Authorities\u00e2\u20ac\u2122&nbsp;failure to investigate the &#8220;beating that sent her to the hospital with a broken nose and a head injury forced her to do the investigative work herself, uncovering <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/topic\/surveillance-video\" target=\"_blank\">surveillance video <\/a> &#8230; near the crime scene&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/muslim-woman-investigated-her-own-hate-crime-after-nypd-dismissed-her-case_n_5cfeca32e4b0da64c5362d58\">Muslim Woman Investigated Her Own Hate Crime After NYPD Dismissed Her Case<\/a> (Huffington Post)&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Russia advised the Sudanese military to use fake news and videos to portray demonstrators as anti-Islamic, pro-Israeli and pro-LGBT&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mideastsoccer.blogspot.com\/2019\/06\/russia-joins-gulf-states-in-coaching.html\">Russia Joins Gulf States in Coaching Sudan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Military<\/a> (Middle East Soccer)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>Follow Me, Akhi<\/em> is deeply researched, surprising and  considerate. It portrays the online world of British Muslims as diverse,  rich and fraught \u00e2\u20ac\u201c but above all else innovative, exciting and  criminally under-reported&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/books\/2019\/06\/hussein-kesvani-s-follow-me-akhi-investigating-islam-and-internet\">Hussein Kesvani\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Follow Me, Akhi: Investigating Islam and the Internet<\/a> (New Statesman) <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Hindu nationalists used the Pepe the Frog image &#8220;favored among American white supremacists &#8230; to glorify the 1992 desecration of the Babri Masjid mosque &#8230; that triggered riots &#8230; killing of hundreds of innocent Muslims&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/mb8xxb\/facebook-in-india-is-drowning-in-anti-muslim-hate-speech\">Facebook in India Is Drowning in Anti-Muslim Hate Speech<\/a> (Vice News)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; After decades of standing behind the Palestinian people, India under the  [BJP] has tilted in Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s favour as the Hindu  nationalism of India finds common cause with the ethno-nationalism of  the Zionist state&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20190612-india-embraces-israel-in-unprecedented-anti-palestine-vote-at-the-un\/\">India Embraces Israel in Unprecedented anti-Palestine Vote at the UN<\/a> (Middle East Monitor)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Chapel Hill Police Chief Chris Blue said he wished the department had  recognized that the deaths of Deah Barakat, his wife Yusor Abu-Salha and  her sister Razan Abu-Salha were about more than a parking dispute&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldsun.com\/news\/local\/article231494693.html\">Chapel Hill Police Chief Expresses \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSincere Regret\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 over Muslim Murders Message <\/a>(Herald Sun)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; and after a victim&#8217;s father&#8217;s wrote that &#8220;[i]n no just world should he be able to murder children and not face the words of the families whose  lives he has destroyed,&#8221; the killer &#8220;withdrew his request to leave the courtroom&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/06\/12\/us\/hate-crime-muslim-students.html\">He Killed 3 Muslim Students. But Did He Commit a Hate Crime?<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel&#8217;s well-documented disinformation campaign might as well have been a model for the alleged Russian troll campaign that gets the media attention:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/content\/inside-israels-million-dollar-troll-army\/27566\">Inside Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Million Dollar Troll Army<\/a> (electronic intifada)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The neo-Nazi organ that &#8220;falsely claimed that [Dean] Obeidallah planned and executed the horrific terrorist attack that took place at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester&#8221; must pay the comedian\/activist $4.1 million: First Lawsuit Against Daily Stormer to Reach Resolution (Muslim Advocates) Authorities\u00e2\u20ac\u2122&nbsp;failure to investigate the &#8220;beating that sent her to the hospital with a [&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-20569","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\/20569","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=20569"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20578,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20569\/revisions\/20578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}