{"id":36221,"date":"2019-10-04T06:26:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T11:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=36221"},"modified":"2019-10-04T06:26:37","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T11:26:37","slug":"news-and-analysis-10-4-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=36221","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (10\/4\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Special Branch Police refused to explain its special interest &#8220;in Muslim students &#8230; as it is a matter  of national security&#8230;. However, they promised that the  bureau has already abandoned the order&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.khaosodenglish.com\/politics\/2019\/10\/03\/police-promise-to-stop-monitoring-muslim-students\/\">Police Promise to Stop Monitoring Muslim Students<\/a> (Khaosod English) <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Gashi benefited from Gulf charity scholarship money that enabled him to study in Medina, but didn&#8217;t adopt &#8220;the ultra-conservative doctrine practiced there, and  the religious establishment did not like his &#8220;modern opinions'&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/news\/world\/darwin--islam--kosovo-imam-expelled-for-accepting-both-11965578\">Darwin, Islam: Kosovo Imam Expelled for Accepting Both<\/a> (Channel News)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Guardian Council approved the legislation after &#8220;parliament <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2019\/08\/09\/irans-nationality-law-bill-highlights-challenges-legislative-reform\" target=\"_blank\">amended<\/a>&nbsp;the  bill to condition granting citizenship to children who have been found  to not &#8216;possess a security problem'&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/10\/iran-women-married-foreigners-pass-citizenship-children-191002145229455.html\">Iran Women Married to Foreigners Can Pass Citizenship to Children<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m embarrassed to say this but my opinions on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/islam\">Islam<\/a> used to be that the religion, the culture and the people were backward; that they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t integrate and wanted to take over&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2019\/oct\/03\/mohamed-salah-inspired-me-become-muslim-liverpool-islam\">How Mohamed Salah Inspired Me to Become a Muslim<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>President Rouhani presented a plan dubbed the <g class=\"gr_ gr_4 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"4\" data-gr-id=\"4\">Hormez<\/g> Peace Endeavor. According to Iran&#8217;s FM, All regional states and the global community have an interest in protecting freedom of navigation and energy security for all:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/blogs\/iransource\/making-sense-of-hope-can-irans-hormuz-peace-endeavor-succeed\/\">Making Sense of HOPE: Can Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Hormuz Peace Endeavor Succeed? <\/a>(Mehran Haghirian and Luciano Zaccara)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and the remaining signatories can still be saved after the U.S. withdrawal but Iran must return to the full implementation of its commitment&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-iran-usa-nuclear-talks\/iran-nuclear-deal-can-be-saved-by-goodwill-not-sanctions-slovakias-iaea-hopeful-says-idUSKBN1WI1OT\">Iran Nuclear Deal Can be Saved by Goodwill Not Sanctions: Slovakia&#8217;s IAEA Hopeful Says<\/a> (World News)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Their own, independent relationship with the [Qur&#8217;an brought] &#8230; faith that Allah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plan was for me to twirl onstage in a skirt so that I  could eventually find not only myself, but Allah, like many [Sufis] &#8230; centuries before&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2019\/10\/03\/muslim-non-binary-drag-queen-glamrou-quran-queerness-lgbt-islam\/\">Muslim Drag Queen Glamrou Says the Quran Has \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPockets of Queerness<\/a> (Pink News)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Branch Police refused to explain its special interest &#8220;in Muslim students &#8230; as it is a matter of national security&#8230;. However, they promised that the bureau has already abandoned the order&#8221;: Police Promise to Stop Monitoring Muslim Students (Khaosod English) Gashi benefited from Gulf charity scholarship money that enabled him to study in Medina, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122827,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36221","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\/36221","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\/122827"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36221"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36521,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36221\/revisions\/36521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}