{"id":81462,"date":"2020-03-03T06:45:05","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T11:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=81462"},"modified":"2020-03-04T06:55:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T11:55:56","slug":"news-and-analysis-3-2-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=81462","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (3\/3\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The U.S. promised the Taliban a prisoner exchange to which the Afghani government had not agreed, seeming to guarantee the agreement&#8217;s collapse:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/03\/02\/taliban-peace-deal-118660\">Cracks Start to Show in Taliban Peace Deal<\/a> (Politico)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/03\/president-ghani-rejects-peace-deal-prisoner-swap-taliban-200301082216180.html\">President Ghani Rejects Peace Deal&#8217;s Prisoner Swap with Taliban<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2020\/3\/2\/us_taliban_peace_deal\">Breakthrough U.S.-Taliban Deal Signed, But Airstrikes Likely to Continue &amp; Mercenaries to Remain<\/a> (Democracy Now)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, a long-time proponent of a gold-backed  currency, said that the use of gold dinar and barter trade will be  revisited and considered among Muslim leaders&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/opinion\/columnists\/2020\/03\/571104\/unified-currency-muslim-countries\">Unified Currency for Muslim Countries<\/a> (New Straits Times)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;To showcase the compliance of their services with Islam, fintech firms  are organising forums with Islamic scholars and sponsoring religious  festivals&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-indonesia-digitalpayments-islam\/sharia-fintech-startups-race-to-tap-indonesia-growth-by-aligning-with-islam-idUSKBN20Q0IA\">&#8220;Sharia Fintech&#8221;: Startups Race to Tap Indonesia Growth by Aligning with Islam<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As the coronavirus hits top leadership, Iran mobilizes, even calling out the military &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-03-02\/member-of-iran-adistory-body-to-supreme-leader-dies-from-virus\">Member of Iran Advisory Body to Supreme Leader Dies from Virus<\/a> (Bloomberg)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/e3-statement-on-5-million-to-help-fight-coronavirus-in-iran-02-march-2020\">E3 Statement on \u00e2\u201a\u00ac5 Million to Help Fight Coronavirus in Iran: 02 March 2020<\/a> (Gov.UK)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/2020\/03\/03\/net-group-says-wikipedia-disrupted-in-iran-amid-coronavirus\/\">Iran: Supreme Leader Orders Armed Forces to Combat New Virus<\/a> (News4Jax)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; but will they accept Trump&#8217;s offer of assistance?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/02\/29\/trump-coronavirus-iran-118270\">Trump\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s New Coronavirus Risk: Dangerous Spin and Public Distrust \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Inside Iran<\/a> (Politico)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Much of the Delhi police force, controlled by the national government &#8220;was drawn off into the security  arrangements for Donald Trump, &#8230; which would allow these mobs a  freer hand&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/q-and-a\/the-real-objective-of-mob-violence-against-muslims-in-india?source\">The Real Objective of Mob Violence Against Muslims in India<\/a> (New Yorker)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;[T]hreatening text messages&#8221; were sent to the chief &#8220;whose family immigrated to Paterson from Turkey when he was an infant,  is a veteran city officer and took the top cop post Feb. 4&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/passaic-county\/2020\/03\/man-charged-with-making-bias-threats-against-citys-first-muslim-police-chief-authorities-say.html\">Man Charged with Making Bias Threats Against City\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s First Muslim Police Chief, Authorities Say<\/a> (NJ.com)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The threat came ahead of the first anniversary of the 15 March terror  attack last year, where 51 worshippers were killed at the Al Noor and  Linwood mosques&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newshub.co.nz\/home\/new-zealand\/2020\/03\/police-won-t-tolerate-extremism-towards-muslim-community-stuart-nash.html\">Police Won&#8217;t Tolerate Extremism Towards Muslim Community &#8211; Stuart Nash<\/a> (Newshub)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. promised the Taliban a prisoner exchange to which the Afghani government had not agreed, seeming to guarantee the agreement&#8217;s collapse: Cracks Start to Show in Taliban Peace Deal (Politico) President Ghani Rejects Peace Deal&#8217;s Prisoner Swap with Taliban (Al-Jazeera) Breakthrough U.S.-Taliban Deal Signed, But Airstrikes Likely to Continue &amp; Mercenaries to Remain (Democracy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81462","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\/81462","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81462"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81492,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81462\/revisions\/81492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}