{"id":68355,"date":"2019-12-12T17:11:40","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T22:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=68355"},"modified":"2019-12-12T18:41:20","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T23:41:20","slug":"news-and-analysis-12-12-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=68355","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (12\/12\/19)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Both women were co-defendants in the prosecution of &#8230; a renowned &#8230; stem-cell researcher who was arrested last year in the  U.S. on charges of arranging the export of human growth factors to&#8221; Iran: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2019\/12\/12\/trump-iran-prisoner-swamp-083391\">U.S. Quietly Drops 2 More Prosecutions Linked to Trump Iran Prisoner Swap<\/a> (Politico)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A new defense policy drops &#8220;a &nbsp;bipartisan provision requiring the president to get explicit congressional authorization for military action against Tehran&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2019\/dec\/10\/big-defense-bill-drops-provision-limiting-trump-wa\/\">Big Defense Bill Drops Provision Limiting Trump on War with Iran<\/a> (Washington Times)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>UN&#8217;s Secretary-General is unable to confirm Saudi claim that Iran is behind the attack on key Saudi&#8217;s oil facilities in September:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-50742224\">Saudi Arabia Oil Attacks: UN &#8216;Unable to Confirm Iranian Involvement&#8217;<\/a> (BBC)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Regardless of the fact that Islam exhibits a unique religious unity, Islam is practiced around the world with its specific culture, and college offerings ignore this huge global cultural diversity: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeagleonline.com\/article\/2019\/12\/university-classes-ignore-the-breadth-of-diversity-within-islam\">Opinion: University Classes Ignore the Breadth of Diversity Within Islam<\/a> (The Eagle)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A new investigation revealed how elite American intelligence helped Gulf country to spy beyond suspected <g class=\"gr_ gr_55 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling\" id=\"55\" data-gr-id=\"55\">extremis<\/g>ts to include human right activists, journalists, and FIFA personnel: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/investigates\/special-report\/usa-raven-whitehouse\/\">White House Veterans Helped Gulf Monarchy Build Secret Surveillance Unite<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Muslim advocates warns Mark Zuckerberg about amplified anti-Muslim hate on Facebook:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2019\/12\/07\/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-muslims-islamophobia\/\">Dear Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook Is an Engine of Anti-Muslim Hate the World Over. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t You Care?<\/a> (The Intercept)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Gehad El Haddad further remains subjected  to extreme conditions after his acquittal and declared innocent by Egyptian court said his family: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freehaddad.org\/2019\/12\/10\/case-update-gehad-further-subjected-to-extreme-conditions-after-his-acquittal\/\">Case Update: Gehad Further Subjected To Extreme Conditions After His Acquittal<\/a> (Campaign Update)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The prospect of an Israeli-U.S. defense pact is outrageous especially given that &#8220;Israel is one of the most aggressive nations on earth&#8221; having aggressed against its neighbors as well as the Palestinians:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/libertarianinstitute.org\/foreign-policy\/no-us-israel-defense-pact\/\">No US-Israel Defense Pact!<\/a> (The Libertarian Institute)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Nike vice president Martha Moore started a new and lucrative line of modest swimwear for Muslim women:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/quartzy\/1764290\/nikes-modest-swimwear-courts-a-growing-muslim-clothing-market\/\">Nike Courts a Growing Muslim Market with Innovative, Modest Swimwear<\/a> (Quartzy)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Both women were co-defendants in the prosecution of &#8230; a renowned &#8230; stem-cell researcher who was arrested last year in the U.S. on charges of arranging the export of human growth factors to&#8221; Iran: U.S. Quietly Drops 2 More Prosecutions Linked to Trump Iran Prisoner Swap (Politico) A new defense policy drops &#8220;a &nbsp;bipartisan provision [&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-68355","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\/68355","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=68355"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69300,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68355\/revisions\/69300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}