{"id":38670,"date":"2019-10-10T06:11:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T11:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=38670"},"modified":"2019-10-10T14:21:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T19:21:12","slug":"news-and-analysis-10-9-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=38670","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (10\/10\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Will Turkey&#8217;s multiple conflicts and military activities secure its border and interests? &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/arabcenterdc.org\/policy_analyses\/confusion-in-turkeys-regional-foreign-policy\/\">Confusion in Turkey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Regional Foreign Policy<\/a> (Arab Center Washington DC)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; Kamran Bokhari think it can:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cgpolicy.org\/articles\/hard-truths-about-the-u-s-turkey-deal-on-syria\/\">Hard Truths About the U.S.-Turkey Deal on Syria<\/a> (Center for Global Policy)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Beijing may cancel trade talks with the US as the US restricts Visas for Chinese&nbsp;officials for their role in the human rights violations and abuses of Muslims minorities &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/u-s-to-restrict-visas-for-chinese-officials-linked-to-abuse-of-uighurs-other-minorities-11570562943\">The<\/a><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/u-s-to-restrict-visas-for-chinese-officials-linked-to-abuse-of-uighurs-other-minorities-11570562943\"> U.S. to Restrict Visas for Chinese Officials Linked to Abuse of Muslim Minorities <\/a> (The Wall Street Journal)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; meanwhile, a 65-year-old woman has &#8220;been sentenced in June to 20 years in [prison for] &#8230;. &#8216;illegally using superstition to break the rule of law&#8221; and  &#8220;gathering chaos to disrupt social order'&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/10\/08\/764153179\/china-has-begun-moving-xinjiang-muslim-detainees-to-formal-prisons-relatives-say\">&#8216;Illegal Superstition&#8217;: China Jails Muslims For Practicing Islam, Relatives Say<\/a> (NPR)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>An Indian Christian missionary says that under Modi&#8217;s party sees both &#8220;Muslims and Christians &#8230; with a special &#8216;contempt&#8217; as  foreign interlopers or as &#8216;brainwashed&#8217; by colonizing forces'&#8221; and both are targets of violence:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2019\/10\/09\/opposition-to-modi-isnt-just-about-anti-muslim-violence-indian-christians-say\/\">Opposition to Modi Isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Just About Anti-Muslim Violence, Indian Christians Say<\/a> (Religion News Service)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The perpetrator &#8230; is a member of the Brigade Juive, or Jewish Brigade, a pro-Israel extremist group&#8221; from which &#8220;many Palestine solidarity activists <a href=\"https:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/blogs\/ali-abunimah\/jewish-brigade-email-threatens-bds-activists\">received death threats<\/a> &#8230; threatening to &#8216;scalp you one by one&#8217;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/electronicintifada.net\/blogs\/ali-abunimah\/hacker-found-guilty-terror-and-intimidation-against-palestine-activists\">Hacker Found Guilty of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Terror and Intimidation\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Against Palestine Activists<\/a> (electronic intifada)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Israeli Secret Services sanctioned illegal torture against Palestinian civilians &#8230; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/palestinians-demand-freedom-torture-191008110413140.html\">Palestinians Have a Right to Demand Freedom from Torture<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; while &#8220;the demolition of their homes, arbitrary  detention, and systematic attacks by Israeli settlers with the tacit  support of the Israeli army&#8221; cause &#8220;significant long-term mental health impacts&#8221; as well as physical injury&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msf.org\/invisible-mental-health-crisis-plaguing-west-bank-palestine\">The Invisible Mental Health Crisis Plaguing the West Bank<\/a> (M\u00c3\u00a9decins Sans Fronti\u00c3\u00a8res)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>How Interfaith dialogue may heal divisions in a world  inflicted with religious and political conflicts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/story\/2019-10-08\/yom-kippur-syria-muslim-interfaith-tolerance\">Opinion:&nbsp;The Yom Kippur Lesson I Learned from a Muslim Man<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The author asks,  \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why in the world would you choose to increase your marginality? Why  would you choose to increase the discrimination that you will  experience? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/section\/campus-life\/religion-professor-presents-book-latinx-muslim-community\">Religion Professor Presents Book on Latinx Muslim Community<\/a> (Michigan Daily)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Muslim and Catholic religious leaders observed the eighth centenary of  St. Francis&#8217; pilgrimage to Jerusalem by visiting Al-Aqsa Mosque,  illustrating what appears to be a golden age of relations between the  religions&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2019\/10\/palestine-vatican-cardinal-visit-al-aqsa-mosque-religious.html#ixzz61wprfUyQ\">Visit from Vatican Reps Boosts Catholic-Muslim Interaction<\/a> (Al-Monitor)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Building and stockpiling nuclear bombs is wrong and using it is haram  (religiously forbidden) &#8230; Although we have nuclear technology, Iran  has firmly avoided [weaponizing] it&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-iran-nuclear-khamenei\/irans-khamenei-says-building-using-nuclear-bomb-is-forbidden-under-its-religion-tv-idUSKBN1WO15H\">Iran&#8217;s Khamenei Says Building, Using Nuclear Bomb is Forbidden Under Its Religion: TV<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Turkey&#8217;s multiple conflicts and military activities secure its border and interests? &#8230; Confusion in Turkey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Regional Foreign Policy (Arab Center Washington DC) &#8230; Kamran Bokhari think it can: Hard Truths About the U.S.-Turkey Deal on Syria (Center for Global Policy) Beijing may cancel trade talks with the US as the US restricts Visas for [&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-38670","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\/38670","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=38670"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39262,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38670\/revisions\/39262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}