{"id":50096,"date":"2019-11-04T07:03:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T12:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=50096"},"modified":"2019-11-04T13:29:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T18:29:34","slug":"news-and-analysis-10-4-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=50096","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (11\/4\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s a chilling echo of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/4408848?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents\">Hindutva&#8217;s Ties to Europe&#8217;s Fascists in the 1930s<\/a>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/europe-supports-india-kashmir-issue-191102184856242.html\">Why Europe&#8217;s Far Right Supports India on the Kashmir iIssue<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Ahead of the Supreme Court verdict on the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/tag\/221-217-81\/ayodhya\/?utm=bodytag\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>A<\/strong>yodhya <\/a>land dispute, prominent Muslim organisations met to appeal for peace and harmony irrespective of the outcome of the judgment&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/ayodhya-muslim-leaders-urge-restraint\/article29872147.ece\">Ayodhya: Muslim Leaders Urge Restraint<\/a> (The Hindu)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Erdogan wants to resettle Arab Syrian refugees now in Turkey in the areas from which he is driving out the Kurds, but with Assad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s forces moving in with Russian support, &#8220;few refugees are likely to go back willingly&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/11\/01\/world\/middleeast\/syria-refugees-turkey-safe-zone.html?searchResultPosition=1\">Turkey Wants Refugees to Move to a \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSafe Zone.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Tough Sell.<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A Kashmiri novelist says that Islamic &#8220;discourse has taught him that one can be a good Muslim by valuing human life&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/india\/story\/muslim-writers-in-india-fear-shahnaz-bashir-1615150-2019-11-02\"><g class=\"gr_ gr_3 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Grammar only-ins replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"3\" data-gr-id=\"3\">Fate<\/g> of Muslim Writers in India Can Be Judged by Fear They Have: Shahnaz Bashir<\/a> (India Today)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Rouhani proposed uniting &#8220;all regional countries in a pledge of non-aggression and non-interference in each others&#8217; affairs &#8230; after a string of mysterious attacks on oil tankers &#8230;. and Saudi oil installations&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/iran-says-cooperation-plan-sent-gulf-neighbours-170841810.html\">Iran Says Cooperation Plan Sent to Gulf <\/a>N<g class=\"gr_ gr_47 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling multiReplace\" id=\"47\" data-gr-id=\"47\"><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/iran-says-cooperation-plan-sent-gulf-neighbours-170841810.html\">eighbours<\/a><\/g> (Yahoo News)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; and diplomatic consultations between Iran and the Saudis yields the release of fishermen captured last December &#8220;after their fishing boat landed in Saudi Arabia&#8217;s territorial waters due to bad weather conditions&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/10\/iran-saudi-arabia-releases-19-iranian-fishermen-191031133829012.html\">Iran Says Saudi Arabia Releases 19 Iranian Fishermen<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>NY police are investigating the mysterious death of a volunteer at a domestic violence shelter who when she was seventeen sparked &#8220;a minor melee&#8221; after being refused admission &#8220;on a ride because of her hijab&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/11\/03\/nyregion\/ola-salem-staten-island-death.html\">She Fought for Muslim Women. then She Was Found Dead<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Forty years after Iranian students seized the U.S. embassy, some ex-hostages want better relations and some want &#8220;maximum pressure&#8221; but none are optimistic for &#8220;we are hostages to our own history&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world-nation\/story\/2019-11-04\/forty-years-later-former-us-embassy-hostages-reflect-on-the-future-of-relations-with-iran\">Forty Years Later, former U.S. Embassy Hostages Reflect on the Future of Relations with Iran<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; while in Iraq protesters attack an Iranian consulate, replacing Iranian flags with Iraqi flags and spray-painting &#8220;Karbala is free, Iran out, out!&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/11\/iraqi-protesters-attack-iran-consulate-karbala-191103232545555.html\">Three Killed as Iraq Protesters Attack Iran Consulate in Karbala<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>At the book fair in the UAE, everything the &#8220;American comedian and television personality Steve Harvey &#8230; 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