{"id":23908,"date":"2019-09-05T05:28:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T10:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=23908"},"modified":"2019-09-05T05:28:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T10:28:51","slug":"news-and-analysis-9-5-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=23908","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (9\/5\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A &#8220;student &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2019\/8\/30\/Ajjawi-petition-entry-harvard\/\">organized &#8230; petition<\/a> supporting him &#8230; garnered more than 7,000 signatures&#8221; and his plight &#8220;elicited &#8230; support from &#8230; organizations including &#8230; the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2019\/9\/3\/harvard-student-turned-away-arrives\/\">Freshman Previously Denied Entry to the United States Arrives at Harvard<\/a> (Harvard Crimson)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The true purpose of the movement to equate any criticism of Zionism as anti-Semitic is to sparer Zionists of the impossible task of refuting the charge that Zionism is unjust:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2019\/09\/zionism-identity-response\/\">\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcZionism Is at the Core of Jewish Identity, so Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitic\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A Response<\/a> (Mondoweiss)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Hawks in Israel and America have spent more than a decade agitating for war against the Islamic Republic\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nuclear program. Will Trump finally deliver?&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/04\/magazine\/iran-strike-israel-america.html\">The Secret History of the Push to Strike Iran<\/a> (NY Times Magazine)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; &#8220;[I]t is incumbent upon journalists to do in 2019 what we collectively did not do in 2003 [in the build-up to the Iraq invasion]: Check the facts, challenge the lies, debunk the myths&#8221;: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2019\/08\/14\/trump-iran-worst-lies\/\">Here Are Five Lies About Iran That We Need to Refute to Stop Another Illegal War<\/a> (The Intercept)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>He was prepared to die defending his country, but ended up with PTSD from persecution by the Department of Justice:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/04\/magazine\/muslim-marine-military.html\">A Muslim Marine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Trauma: I Was Set Up, Arrested and Acquitted<\/a> (NY Times Magazine)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The man who wrote what is &#8220;perhaps the most famous translation of the&#8221; Qur&#8217;an had an &#8220;understanding of Islam [that] was very liberal. He wanted a reconciliation between the Muslim and Western philosophy&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trtworld.com\/magazine\/how-the-british-empire-abandoned-its-most-vocal-muslim-supporter-29488\">How the British Empire Abandoned Its Most Vocal Muslim Supporter<\/a> (TRT World) <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;David Parnham\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s campaign calling for Muslims to be \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcbutchered\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 sparked increase in hate crime&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/crime\/david-parnham-court-punish-muslim-day-sentence-white-supremacist-trial-a9090186.html\">White Supremacist Behind \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPunish a Muslim Day\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Jailed for 12 Years<\/a> (Independent)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p> &#8230; while Vincent Vetromile, 20, was sentenced to seven years in state prison with  five years of post-release supervision for his role in the plan to  attack Islamberg, &#8230; located approximately 50 miles northeast of  Binghamton&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/13wham.com\/news\/local\/final-suspect-in-ny-muslim-attack-plot-sentenced\">Final Suspect in NY Attack Plot on Muslim Community Sentenced <\/a>(WHAM)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The courier behind that intrusion &#8230; was an inside mole recruited by Dutch intelligence  agents at the behest of the CIA and the Israeli intelligence agency,  the Mossad&#8221;: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/revealed-how-a-secret-dutch-mole-aided-the-us-israeli-stuxnet-cyber-attack-on-iran-160026018.html\">Revealed: How a Secret Dutch Mole Aided the U.S.-Israeli Stuxnet Cyberattack on Iran<\/a> (Yahoo News)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;[How long will we] accept the authenticity of hadiths that lack a chain  of transmission [leading back to] the Prophet even though they  contradict the Quran? Who benefits from [including] this hadith in our  curricula&#8230;?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/themuslimtimes.info\/2019\/09\/05\/saudi-journalist-the-hadith-which-instructs-us-to-fight-unbelievers-until-islam-is-the-religion-of-the-entire-world-contradicts-the-quran-and-is-exploited-by-isis-should-be-removed-from-the-school-c\/\">Saudi Journalist: The Hadith Which Instructs Us to Fight Unbelievers Until Islam Is the Religion of the Entire World Contradicts the Quran and Is Exploited by ISIS, Should Be Removed from the School Curriculum<\/a> (MEMRI \/ The Muslim Times)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;student &#8230; organized &#8230; petition supporting him &#8230; garnered more than 7,000 signatures&#8221; and his plight &#8220;elicited &#8230; support from &#8230; organizations including &#8230; the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education&#8221;: Freshman Previously Denied Entry to the United States Arrives at Harvard (Harvard Crimson) The true purpose of the movement to equate any criticism [&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-23908","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\/23908","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=23908"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24563,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23908\/revisions\/24563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}