{"id":29855,"date":"2019-09-20T05:44:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T10:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=29855"},"modified":"2019-09-20T05:44:04","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T10:44:04","slug":"news-and-analysis-9-20-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=29855","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (9\/20\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It would be wrong to go to war without certainty as to who launched the attack, a treaty obligation to interfere, well-defined goals and plans, a national interest, and, above all, a declaration of war by the U.S. Congress &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2019\/09\/seven-questions-iran\/598096\/?utm_source=Fareed%27s+Global+Briefing&amp;utm_campaign=88ee4d47fb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_09_16_09_16&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_6f2e93382a-88ee4d47fb-97145497\">Seven Questions that Need Answers Before Any Attack on Iran<\/a> (The Atlantic)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; &#8220;Holding Iran responsible for the actions of a militia&#8221; would logically require holding the U.S. &#8220;responsible for massive human casualties in the Yemen war resulting from Saudi use of American weaponry &#8220;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mideastsoccer.blogspot.com\/2019\/09\/saudi-oil-attacks-put-us-commitments-to.html\">Saudi Oil Attacks Put US Commitments to the Test<\/a> (Middle East Soccer)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to engage in a military confrontation. We  believe that a military confrontation based on deception is awful, will  have a lot of casualties. But we won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t blink to defend our territory&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/09\/19\/irans-foreign-minister-threatens-war-1502584\">Iran&#8217;s Foreign Minister Threatens &#8216;All-out War&#8217; in Response to Potential Military Strike<\/a> (Politico) <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The odor of right wing political  correctness that comes through this definitely could have a chilling  effect&#8221; &#8212;  Henry  Reichman, American Association of University Professors &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/430e62044dba43daa3f2332792cd97b2\">Feds Cite Islam Focus in Review of Duke-UNC Language Grant<\/a> (AP)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;  &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/elizabeth-betsy-devos-0\">Betsy DeVos<\/a>&#8216;s investigation into the consortium began after Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/people\/george-holding\">George Holding<\/a>  (R-N.C.) sent her a letter condemning the program for holding a  conference with &#8220;severe anti-Israel bias and anti-Semitic rhetoric&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/462202-trump-admin-say-unc-duke-programs-portray-islam-too-positively\">Trump Administration Says Joint UNC, Duke Program Portrays Islam Too Positively<\/a> (The Hill) <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>PM Prayuth Chan-ocha says that the fact that the government suspects Muslims for &#8220;a series of bomb blasts in the capital Bangkok in August&#8221; justifies spying on all Muslim university students:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/09\/thai-pm-defends-police-monitoring-muslim-students-190917182918633.html\">Thai PM Defends Police Monitoring of Muslim Students<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>With the &#8220;inconsistency and lack of transparency in granting visas, there is no definitive way to track visa application approvals and rejections&#8221; so some have called the approach a &#8220;mockery of the rule of law&#8221; and &#8220;a sham&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/couple-separated-by-the-muslim-ban-reunited-after-huffpost-report_n_5d80ebcae4b00d69059f2a18\">Couple Separated by the Muslim Ban Reunited After HuffPost Report<\/a> (Huffington Post)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/people\/donald-trump.html\">Donald Trump <\/a>said  on Wednesday that &#8216;if it was up to&#8217; him, he would allow Rouhani and his  foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, to come&#8230;.&#8221; Does that mean Pompeo is in charge? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/09\/iran-bicker-visa-rouhani-hints-skipping-meeting-190919035017873.html\">US, Iran Bicker over Visa as Rouhani Hints at Skipping UN Meeting<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;[H]undreds of locals, mostly Muslims, took to the streets &#8230; [in] solidarity with the Hindu community &#8230; after a mob vandalised a temple and a school run by a Hindu principal &#8230; accused of committing blasphemy&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/gulfnews.com\/world\/asia\/pakistan\/pakistan-temple-attack-muslim-locals-offer-support-to-hindus-1.66479477\">Pakistan Temple Attack: Muslim Locals Offer Support to Hindus<\/a> (Gulf News)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p> American Airlines &#8220;has faced accusations of discrimination in the past&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-49764305\">Muslim Men Blame Racial Profiling for Flight Cancellation<\/a> (BBC)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A &#8220;proposal to require congressional authorization for any attack against  Iran. And their amendment is now a major flash point in negotiations  with the Senate that kicked off Thursday over a final defense bill&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2019\/09\/19\/trump-war-iran-1748552\">Why a Pro-Trump Republican Is Fighting to Limit the President\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s War Powers<\/a> (Politico)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be wrong to go to war without certainty as to who launched the attack, a treaty obligation to interfere, well-defined goals and plans, a national interest, and, above all, a declaration of war by the U.S. Congress &#8230; Seven Questions that Need Answers Before Any Attack on Iran (The Atlantic) &#8230; &#8220;Holding Iran [&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-29855","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\/29855","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=29855"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30669,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29855\/revisions\/30669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}