{"id":21698,"date":"2019-08-31T04:55:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T09:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=21698"},"modified":"2019-08-31T04:56:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T09:56:00","slug":"news-and-analysis-8-31-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=21698","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (8\/31\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Contrary to popular (mis)perception American Muslims are well-integrated.  A Rice University professor of Islamic history thinks Muslim Americans are &#8220;finding new ways of expressing their faith&#8221; without losing their religion:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/news\/houston-texas\/houston\/article\/Generations-of-Pasadena-family-grapple-with-what-14399972.php\">Generations of Pasadena Family Grapple with What It Means to Be Muslim American<\/a> (Houston Chronicle)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The 19 year-old woman, &#8220;currently housed in &#8230; a shelter home for females in Lahore&#8221; &#8220;has filed a case in Lahore High Court accusing her family of giving her death threats,&#8221; that is, threatening an &#8220;honor killing&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/india\/story\/forced-conversion-sikh-girl-islam-pakistan-lahore-jagjit-singh-1593657-2019-08-30?utm_source=JioXpressNews&amp;utm_medium=JioXpressNews&amp;utm_campaign=JioXpressNews\">Adopted Islam Out of My Own Free Will: Sikh Girl After Family Alleges Forced Conversion in Pakistan<\/a> (India Today)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;My commitment is to freedom[,] &#8230; from patriarchy[,] &#8230; from racism[,] &#8230; from occupation and apartheid.&#8221; Noura Erakat explains why opposing deportation of African asylum seekers must be part of the struggle:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/972mag.com\/noura-erakat-justice-for-some-podcast\/143122\/\">Rethinking Race Relations in Israel-Palestine<\/a> (972)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;They demolish our houses while we build theirs&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/au\/stone-men-9781788730266\/\">Stone Men: The Palestinians Who Built Israel by Andrew Ross<\/a> (Bloomsbury)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Abbas said that Palestinians are ready to negotiate a two-state solution within 1967 borders, but he&#8221; calls &#8220;for Europe to play a greater role in the Middle East peace process because he says the US is not neutral&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/germanys-merkel-insists-on-two-state-solution-in-israel-palestine-conflict\/a-50211907\">Germany&#8217;s Merkel Insists on Two-state Solution in Israel-Palestine Conflict<\/a> (Deutsche Welle)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p> Jerusalem &#8220;does not belong to any specific group because it belongs to all monotheists &#8230; [which] is how countless Muslim rulers treated the city, even when &#8230; their power could have allowed for that&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> <a href=\"https:\/\/orientxxi.info\/magazine\/who-owns-jerusalem,3256\">Who Owns Jerusalem?<\/a> (Orient XXI)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>His supporters say he was legally married to the woman in the video clip, which &#8220;a foreign intelligence agency &#8230; released when he refused to take part in a Canadian TV show critical of the Iranian regime&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newshub.co.nz\/home\/world\/2019\/08\/islamic-iran-rocked-by-politician-sex-tape-scandals.html\">Islamic Iran Rocked by Politician Sex Tape Scandals<\/a> (Newshub)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Macron\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bet didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t pay off&#8230; Zarif wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t senior enough&#8230;. Perhaps if President Hassan Rouhani had arrived in Biarritz, &#8230; Trump would have found a dramatic meeting irresistible&#8221;: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/macrons-gamble-to-get-iran-and-the-us-to-talk-didnt-pay-off-heres-why\/2019\/08\/29\/083e3014-ca9c-11e9-a4f3-c081a126de70_story.html\">Macron\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Gamble to Get Iran and the U.S. to Talk Didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Pay Off. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Why<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to popular (mis)perception American Muslims are well-integrated. 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