{"id":20648,"date":"2019-07-04T04:36:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T09:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20648"},"modified":"2019-07-04T04:36:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T09:36:38","slug":"news-and-analysis-7-4-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=20648","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (7\/4\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Unlike &#8220;&#8216;literalist religious doctrine&#8217; &#8230; on which these new abortion laws are based, &#8230; Islam actually encourages different interpretation of the law, leading to a number of valid legal opinions &#8230; which Muslims can follow&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euro-islam.info\/2019\/06\/28\/responses-and-reflections-as-american-muslims-are-pulled-into-the-abortion-debate\/\">Responses and Reflections as American Muslims Are Pulled into the Abortion Debate<\/a> (Euro-Islam)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Gen. &#8220;Keane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reference to the United States\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 accidental downing of an Iranian commercial airliner in 1988 made a profound impact on the president, who was &#8216;spooked&#8217; when he learned of the incident&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/07\/02\/keane-fox-news-iran-trump-1394148\">The Fox News General Who &#8216;Spooked&#8217; Trump Out of Attacking Iran<\/a> (Politico)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;If extremists think threatening to kill me will slow me down &#8212; they&#8217;re both violent &amp; ignorant. My faith teaches me to respond to injustice w\/justice. We will march forward in service to all humanity&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/muslim-american-virginia-state-senate-candidate-scared-lynching\/story?id=64085091\">Muslim-American Virginia State Senate Candidate Qasim Rashid Says He&#8217;s Not Scared by &#8216;Lynching&#8217; Threat&#8217;<\/a> (abc News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Separating children form their mothers is becoming trendy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euro-islam.info\/2019\/06\/28\/french-senate-agrees-to-ban-veiled-mothers-from-joining-their-kids-on-a-school-trip\/\">French Senate Agrees to Ban Veiled Mothers from Joining Their Kids on a School Trip<\/a> (Euro-Islam)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"pull-quote has-quote\" data-pullquote=\"In late April, Libya\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most prominent Muslim Sunni cleric, Grand Mufti Sadiq al-Ghariani, called for all Muslims &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.alaraby.co.uk\/english\/News\/2019\/4\/28\/Libyas-grand-mufti-calls-for-Saudi-Hajj-boycott&quot;&gt;to boycott the hajj&lt;\/a&gt;\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe obligatory pilgrimage of Muslims to Mecca.\">&#8220;Libya\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most prominent Muslim Sunni cleric, Grand Mufti Sadiq al-Ghariani, called for all Muslims <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alaraby.co.uk\/english\/News\/2019\/4\/28\/Libyas-grand-mufti-calls-for-Saudi-Hajj-boycott\">to boycott the hajj<\/a>,&#8221; adding that going &#8220;<\/span>on a second pilgrimage was conducting \u00e2\u20ac\u0153an act of sin rather than a good deed&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2019\/07\/02\/mohammed-bin-salman-is-making-muslims-boycott-mecca-hajj-islam-pilgrimage-saudi-arabia\/\">Mohammed bin Salman Is Making Muslims Boycott Mecca<\/a> (Foreign Policy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The &#8220;ramping up of such cyberattacks [between the U.S. and Iran is] a means of warfare&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/07\/02\/us-iran-cyber-strike-marks-a-military-game-changer-says-tech-expert.html\">US-Iran Cyber Strike Marks a Military \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcGame Changer,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Says Tech Expert<\/a> (CNBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Having failed to lure Palestinians on the merits of what Michael Koplow, policy director of the Israel Policy Forum, calls &#8220;the Monty Python sketch of Israeli-Palestinian peace initiatives,&#8221; Kushner resorts to insults:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/news\/2019\/07\/jared-kushner-hysterical-and-stupid\">In Charm Offensive, Kushner Calls Palestinians \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hysterical and Stupid\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/a> (Vanity Fair)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stealing a trick from Israel, &#8220;Iran announced in June that it is allowing foreign tourists to enter through its international airports without stamping their passports&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2019\/06\/iran-stops-stamping-passports.html\">Iran Stops Stamping Passports<\/a> (Al-Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Unlike &#8220;&#8216;literalist religious doctrine&#8217; &#8230; on which these new abortion laws are based, &#8230; Islam actually encourages different interpretation of the law, leading to a number of valid legal opinions &#8230; which Muslims can follow&#8221;: Responses and Reflections as American Muslims Are Pulled into the Abortion Debate (Euro-Islam) Gen. &#8220;Keane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s reference to the United States\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 [&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-20648","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\/20648","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=20648"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20657,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20648\/revisions\/20657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}