{"id":33398,"date":"2019-09-27T05:58:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T10:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=33398"},"modified":"2019-09-27T05:58:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T10:58:08","slug":"news-and-analysis-9-27-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=33398","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (9\/27\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;India is being governed today by Hindu ethno-nationalists who seem to regard the country&#8217;s minorities\u00e2\u20ac\u201dMuslims, Christians and other non-Hindus\u00e2\u20ac\u201das inferior, anti-national, and not deserving of protection&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/gandhis-legacy-was-betrayed-modi-it-can-still-reclaimed-kashmiri-peaceful-resistance-1461614\">Gandhi&#8217;s Legacy Was Betrayed By Modi\u00e2\u20ac\u201dBut It Can Still Be Reclaimed by Kashmiri Peaceful Resistance<\/a> (Newsweek)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; &#8220;I am disappointed by the international community. If eight million Europeans, or Christians or Jews or Americans were put under siege well even if eight Americans had been put under siege &#8230; imagine the reaction&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/world\/story\/imran-khan-not-hopeful-about-unga-speech-on-kashmir-1603758-2019-09-27\">Imran Khan Says He Is Not Too Hopeful About UN Speech on Kashmir<\/a> (India Today)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Claiming that the second largest religion on earth is not a religion is as dangerous as it is absurd:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bigthink.com\/culture-religion\/american-islam\">Why the De-faithing of Islam Is a Threat to All America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Religions<\/a>&nbsp;(Big Think)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The minister says that &#8220;even though French law did not ban mothers in headscarves from going on school trips as volunteers, he wanted to avoid this &#8216;as much as possible'&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/25\/french-education-minister-reignites-row-over-muslim-headscarf\">French Education Minister Reignites Row over Muslim Headscarf<\/a> (Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Anyone who is in any way associated with the PA in Jerusalem, they&#8217;re routinely arrested because Israel wants to make sure that there is no Palestinian representation in Jerusalem&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/09\/israel-arrests-palestine-jerusalem-minister-fadi-al-hadami-190925075504368.html\">Israel Arrests Palestine&#8217;s Jerusalem Minister Fadi al-Hadami<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Her brother and the &#8220;brother and sister of her former husband &#8230; were all&nbsp; arrested last night&#8221; and &#8220;authorities have refused to disclose the whereabouts of&#8221; the latter two or &#8220;the reason for their arrests&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2019\/09\/iran-family-of-womens-rights-activist-arrested-in-despicable-attempt-to-intimidate-her-into-silence\/\">Iran: Family of Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Rights Activist Arrested in Despicable Attempt to Intimidate Her into Silence<\/a> (Amnesty International)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When she said she didn&#8217;t need a two hour lunch break and asked for two five minute prayer breaks instead&nbsp; &#8220;she was brought before [Fast Track&#8217;s] CEO&#8221; who launched &#8220;tirade&#8221; against &#8220;religious shenanigans&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/muslim-woman-sues-virginia-company-says-they-didn-t-hire-n1059196\">Muslim Woman Sues Virginia Company, Says They Didn&#8217;t Hire Her over Prayer Breaks<\/a> (NBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The Stena Impero was <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/23\/iran-says-uk-flagged-tanker-seized-in-july-is-free-to-leave\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">detained by Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Revolutionary Guards<\/a> in the strait of Hormuz waterway for alleged marine violations two weeks after Britain seized an Iranian tanker off the territory of Gibraltar&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/27\/uk-flagged-tanker-seized-by-iran-in-july-released-leaves-bandar-abbas-port\">UK-flagged Tanker Seized by Iran Released and Heading for Dubai<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Today people in Palestine, Kashmir, and Hong Kong see themselves as stateless nations ruled with brutish military occupation. In the postcolonial game of state formation, they have been denied their national sovereignty&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/hong-kong-kashmir-palestine-ruins-british-empire-fire-190925122530155.html\">Hong Kong, Kashmir, Palestine: Ruins of British Empire on Fire<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;India is being governed today by Hindu ethno-nationalists who seem to regard the country&#8217;s minorities\u00e2\u20ac\u201dMuslims, Christians and other non-Hindus\u00e2\u20ac\u201das inferior, anti-national, and not deserving of protection&#8221; &#8230; Gandhi&#8217;s Legacy Was Betrayed By Modi\u00e2\u20ac\u201dBut It Can Still Be Reclaimed by Kashmiri Peaceful Resistance (Newsweek) &#8230; &#8220;I am disappointed by the international community. If eight million Europeans, [&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-33398","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\/33398","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=33398"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33578,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33398\/revisions\/33578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}