{"id":81561,"date":"2020-03-15T06:04:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T11:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=81561"},"modified":"2020-03-15T06:04:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T11:04:11","slug":"news-and-analysis-3-15-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=81561","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (3\/15\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As American mosques ruminated over whether to cancel Friday prayers in the face of the coronavirus &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/religion\/2020\/03\/13\/dilemma-facing-religious-leaders-when-close-doors-during-pandemic\/\">Mosques Cancel Friday Prayers as Leaders Face a Dilemma of Whether to Close<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; FCNA notes, &#8220;Quarantine, social isolation, travel bans, restricted movement,  visitations, congregation and socialization are among the precautionary  and preventive measures&#8221; are found in Prophetic traditions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/fiqhcouncil.org\/rulings-on-daily-and-weekly-congregational-prayers-during-coronavirus-pandemic\/\">Rulings on Daily and Weekly Congregational Prayers During Coronavirus Pandemic<\/a> (Fiqh Council of North America)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel joins the list of countries using the coronavirus as an excuse to use &#8220;state-level intel gathering tools to track its population&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/zakdoffman\/2020\/03\/14\/coronavirus-spy-apps-israel-joins-iran-and-china-tracking-citizens-smartphones-to-fight-covid-19\/#25bb115f781b\">Coronavirus Spy Apps: Israel Joins Iran and China Tracking Citizens\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Smartphones to Fight COVID-19<\/a> (Forbes)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; &#8220;After all, extreme times call for extreme measures, right? The only question is how extreme it can get&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2020\/03\/netanyahu-says-all-humanity-is-in-same-boat-fighting-virus-except-palestinians\/\">Netanyahu Says \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcAll Humanity Is in Same Boat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Fighting Virus \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Except Palestinians<\/a> (Mondoweiss)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>US-Iran tension and retaliation in Iraq increased after the killing of Gen. Soleimani &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/rocket-attack-injures-troops-in-iraq-potentially-deepening-us-iran-tensions\/2020\/03\/14\/6ddf168c-65fa-11ea-912d-d98032ec8e25_story.html?outputType=amp\">Fresh Rocket Attack Wounds International Troops in Iraq, Potentially Deepening U.S.-Iran Tensions<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230; yet as the coronavirus threat increases, the US decided to reduce its costly and bloody military presence in the Middle East: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/after-a-buildup-to-counter-iran-u-s-troops-begin-leaving-mideast-11583818501\">After a Buildup to Counter Iran, U.S. Troops Begin Leaving Mideast <\/a>(Wall Street Journal)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>US sanctions hampering Iran&#8217;s corona fight, Iranian Central Bank requests five billion dollar assistance &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/ajimpact\/iran-asks-imf-5bn-emergency-funding-fight-coronavirus-200312124121692.html\">Iran Asks IMF for $5bn Emergency Funding to Fight Coronavirus<\/a> (AJ Impact)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Iran also  urges lift of sanction targeting medical supplies and food, but Pompeo <g class=\"gr_ gr_8 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"8\" data-gr-id=\"8\">sa<\/g>ys Iran must release detained Americans first:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-03-11\/iran-urges-u-s-to-lift-sanctions-on-food-and-medicine-imports\">Virus-Hit Iran Urges U.S. to Lift Sanctions Halting Drug Imports <\/a>(Bloomberg)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Palestinians protesting Israeli colonization is ongoing, so is Israeli shooting unarmed young protesters:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/israelpalestinenews.org\/israeli-soldiers-kill-a-teen-injure-112-unarmed-palestinians\/\">Israeli Soldiers Kill a Teen, Injure 112 Unarmed Palestinians<\/a> (If Americans Knew)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Hamas would to let Fatah choose from &#8220;a national unity government, &#8230; comprehensive Palestinian  elections, &#8230; a Palestinian National Council&nbsp;meeting &#8230;, and &#8230; a  meeting for the factions&#8217; secretaries-general&#8221;: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2020\/03\/hamas-visit-russia-propose-fatah-palestinian-reconciliation.html#ixzz6GYwQZCfi\">In Moscow, Hamas Offers 4 Plans for Palestinian Unity<\/a> (Al-Monitor)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As American mosques ruminated over whether to cancel Friday prayers in the face of the coronavirus &#8230; Mosques Cancel Friday Prayers as Leaders Face a Dilemma of Whether to Close (Washington Post) &#8230; FCNA notes, &#8220;Quarantine, social isolation, travel bans, restricted movement, visitations, congregation and socialization are among the precautionary and preventive measures&#8221; are found [&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-81561","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\/81561","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=81561"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81582,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81561\/revisions\/81582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}