{"id":62977,"date":"2019-12-01T09:29:36","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T14:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=62977"},"modified":"2019-12-01T09:29:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T14:29:37","slug":"news-and-analysis-12-1-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=62977","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (12\/1\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When  younger she sought to reassure other Americas that she was a &#8220;safe&#8221; (i.e., non-practicing) Muslim. Now she let&#8217;s them know that she prays,  tries to fast, and longs to make the pilgrimage to Mecca:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/think\/opinion\/insidious-islamophobia-i-experience-white-blond-muslim-how-i-combat-ncna1092871\">The Insidious Islamophobia I Experience as a White, Blond Muslim \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and How I Combat It<\/a>  (NBC News)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Gen. Halevi&#8217;s remark that  killed nine sleeping Palestinian family members by indiscriminately bombing a shack as &#8220;such things happen&#8221; exhibits a loss of humanity and can be investigated under war crime &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/israelpalestinenews.org\/israels-massacre-family-war-crime\/\">Gideon Levy: Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Massacre of Family is a War Crime<\/a> (Haaretz)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 as does an Israeli soldier being sentenced to only one month&#8217;s community service for killing 16-year old Palestinian and wounded five others:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/10\/israeli-soldier-sentenced-killing-gaza-teen-191031090537481.html?utm_source=website&amp;utm_medium=article_page&amp;utm_campaign=read_more_links\">Israeli Soldier Sentenced over <g class=\"gr_ gr_6 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Grammar only-ins replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"6\" data-gr-id=\"6\">Killing<\/g> of Gaza Teen<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>After two months of anti-government protests and the announcement of the Prime Minister&#8217;s resignation, top leaders warn of no end to chaos:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/middle-east-and-africa\/2019\/11\/29\/protesters-in-iraq-topple-a-prime-minister-but-want-more?cid1=cust\/dailypicks1\/n\/bl\/n\/20191129n\/owned\/n\/n\/dailypicks1\/n\/n\/NA\/351809\/n\">Protesters in Iraq Topple a Prime Minister but Want More<\/a> (Economist)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>LGBTQI Muslims &#8220;don&#8217;t insist that  everyone accepts &#8230; that Allah loves &#8230; [their] LGBTQI identities&#8230;. [They] do insist on &#8230; the right to live in peace, and to be  afforded basic decency, courtesy, respect and consideration&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2019\/11\/30\/being-lgbtqi-and-muslim-is-no-easy-ride-11227377\/\">Being LGBTQI and Muslim Is No Easy Ride<\/a> (Metro)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In their effort to save the Iran nuclear deal, six European nations are in the process to join <g class=\"gr_ gr_10 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"10\" data-gr-id=\"10\"><g class=\"gr_ gr_69 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins replaceWithoutSep\" id=\"69\" data-gr-id=\"69\">INSTEX<\/g><\/g> payment mechanism that would enable companies to trade with Iran without using U.S. dollars or U.S. banks:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/middle-east\/voa-news-iran\/more-european-nations-join-effort-bypass-us-sanctions-iran\">More European Nations Join Effort to Bypass US Sanctions on Iran<\/a> (VoA)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In Islam, a woman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s money belongs only to her while a man is obligated to spend on his wife and children&#8221; but some modern practices make that difficult, the most unnecessary of which is that of expensive weddings&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2019\/11\/30\/muslim-men-open-financial-strain-providing-family-11061171\/\">Muslim Men Open Up About the Financial Strain of Providing for Their Family<\/a> (Metro)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The current speaker of parliament, Ali Larijani, who played a major role  in the government increasing energy prices [that sparked recent unrest], has said he will not run in  the election&#8221;: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/iran-begins-registering-candidates-for-parliamentary-polls\/2019\/12\/01\/164334f4-13fb-11ea-924c-b34d09bbc948_story.html\">Iran Begins Registering Candidates for Parliamentary Polls<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Both protests and police response were initially peaceful until \u00e2\u20ac\u0153youth &#8230; full of rage &#8230; took things to another level. Things started to escalate when the police started to beat people up&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/01\/iran-fuel-protest-crackdowns-revealed-on-social-media\">Blocked Roads then Bullets: Iran&#8217;s Brutal Crackdown in Its City of Roses<\/a> (The Guardian )<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When younger she sought to reassure other Americas that she was a &#8220;safe&#8221; (i.e., non-practicing) Muslim. Now she let&#8217;s them know that she prays, tries to fast, and longs to make the pilgrimage to Mecca: The Insidious Islamophobia I Experience as a White, Blond Muslim \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and How I Combat It (NBC News) Gen. 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