{"id":65653,"date":"2019-12-07T07:21:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T12:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=65653"},"modified":"2019-12-07T07:21:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T12:21:03","slug":"news-and-analysis-12-7-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=65653","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (12\/7\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><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\">Duaa<\/g> 17, a student at Oshkosh High School, terrified and crying like the rest of her classmates after stabbing and shooting, led 100 students to seek refuge in her nearby mosque:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/local\/2019\/12\/04\/oshkosh-shooting-muslim-student-duaa-ahmad-opens-mosque-shelter\/2616141001\/\">A Wisconsin Student Opened the Doors of her Mosque as a Shelter for over 100 Kids after a Stabbing, Shooting at School<\/a> (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Realizing the prospect of a catastrophic war between the world&#8217;s top oil-exporting countries, Gulf states are their foreign policy with Iran &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-12-02\/taken-to-brink-by-trump-gulf-states-are-backpedaling-on-iran\">Taken to Brink by Trump, Gulf States Are Backpedaling on Iran<\/a> (Bloomberg)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; and U.S. economic sanctions towards Iran used to promote Trump&#8217;s foreign policy objective are not succeeding in achieving Trump&#8217;s foreign policy goals &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/blogs\/iransource\/assessing-us-policy-toward-iran\/\">Assessing US Policy Toward Iran<\/a> (Atlantic Council)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; to the contrary by pressuring Russia to cancel its plans to convert the Fordow nuclear facility for medical purposes, the U.S. leaves Iran the option to use them for other purposes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/middle-east\/voa-news-iran\/russia-upsets-effort-save-2015-iran-nuclear-deal\">Russia Upsets Effort to Save 2015 Iran Nuclear Deal<\/a> (VoA)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>An elderly man explained to the angry mob &#8220;that destroying  the temple to avenge the Babri Mosque would be against the injunctions of Islam&#8221; and contradicts he policies of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/muslim-saved-hindu-temple-mob-pakistan-191128133210411.html\">The Muslim Who Saved a Hindu Temple from a Mob in Pakistan<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Scholars are concerned that by conflating two different things undermines the fight against actual anti-Semitism and &#8221; 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