{"id":81620,"date":"2020-03-23T09:16:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-23T14:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=81620"},"modified":"2020-03-23T09:16:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T14:16:28","slug":"news-and-analysis-3-23-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=81620","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (3\/23\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Counter-intuitively, the Indonesian VP wants medical personnel exempt from ritual requirements to wash before prayers during the pandemic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/jakartaglobe.id\/news\/vice-president-demands-muslim-clerics-support-covid19-mitigation-tactics\">Vice President Demands Muslim Clerics Support Covid-19 Mitigation Tactics<\/a> (Jakarta Globe)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Amid violence through the Middle East, Canadian Jews, Christians, and Muslims are showing solidarity and working together to support their community:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cjnews.com\/news\/israel\/the-jewish-muslim-team-providing-sharia-loans\">The Jewish-Muslim Team Providing S<g class=\"gr_ gr_5 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"5\" data-gr-id=\"5\">haria<\/g> Loans<\/a> (The Canadian Jewish News)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Iran has released US veteran Michael White, and a group of economists and policy experts urge Trump to lift sanctions to enable confronting the coronavirus: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/iran-releases-detained-u-s-navy-veteran-on-medical-grounds-11584631975\">Iran Releases Detained U.S. Navy Veteran to Swiss Embassy Over Coronavirus Fears <\/a>(Wall Street Journal)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-03-23\/with-iran-ravaged-by-virus-u-s-is-pressured-to-ease-sanctions\">With Iran Ravaged by Virus, U.S. Is Pressured to Ease Sanctions<\/a> (Bloomberg)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2020\/03\/19\/economists-demand-trump-immediately-lift-iran-cuba-and-venezuela-sanctions-are\">Economists Demand Trump Immediately Lift Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela Sanctions That Are &#8216;Feeding the Coronavirus Epidemic&#8217;<\/a> (Common Dreams)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/157016\/coronavirus-kill-millions-us-iran-hostilities-will-make-worse\">The Coronavirus Could Kill Millions. U.S.-Iran Hostilities Will Make It Worse<\/a> (New Republic)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel&#8217;s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/fr\/originals\/2018\/09\/israel-palestinians-nationality-law-court-racism.html\">Nationality Law<\/a> took away Arabic&#8217;s status as an official language, limits national right to  self-determination to Jews and calls for promoting Jewish, but not Christian or Muslim, settlement\u00c2\u00a0within Israel:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/pulse\/originals\/2020\/03\/israel-palestinians-us-state-department-east-jerusalem.html\">Israel, US Pretend East Jerusalem Palestinians Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Exist<\/a> (Al-Monitor)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Turner is banned from the profession for life, having &#8220;failed to show any insight whatsoever into his actions or the impact that his views could have on pupils [and showing] no remorse throughout the process&#8221; :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2020\/03\/18\/teacher-banned-schools-describing-islam-vile-religion\/\">Teacher Banned From Schools After Describing Islam as a &#8216;Vile Religion<\/a> (Telegraph)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In 2015, anti-Houthi sentiment bolstered Abd Rabbuh Mansour Hadi&#8217;s leadership. Today, many say his support hangs by a thread&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/hadi-yemen-houthis-war-saudi-arabia-islah-stc-uae\">&#8216;Saudi Puppet&#8217;: Yemenis Question Their President&#8217;s Legitimacy<\/a> (Middle East Eye)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>While Pompeo accuses China, Iran, and Russia of spreading the coronavirus, China and Iran point fingers at the US:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/national-security\/488659-pompeo-says-china-russia-iran-are-spreading-disinformation-about\">Pompeo Says China, Russia, Iran are Spreading Disinformation About Coronavirus<\/a> (The Hill)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/03\/iran-leader-refuses-cites-coronavirus-conspiracy-theory-200322145122752.html\">Iran Leader Refuses US Help; Cites Coronavirus \\Conspiracy Theory<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;[O]ver the last four decades, [MEK] has devolved into a secretive, cult-like  group that resembles a militant, Islamist version of the Church of  Scientology&#8221; engaged in &#8220;bombings, sabotage missions, and  murders&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2020\/03\/22\/mek-mojahedin-e-khalq-iran\/\">Defectors Tell of Torture and Forced Sterilization in Militant Iranian Cult<\/a> (The Intercept)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>On the seventeenth anniversary of the murder of American activist Rachel Corrie we should remember her sacrifice and the Palestinians&#8217; continuing struggle:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20200318-rachel-corries-death-should-be-incentive-for-global-solidarity-with-palestine\/\">\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcRachel Corrie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Death Should be Incentive for Global Solidarity With Palestine\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/a> (Middle East Monitor)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counter-intuitively, the Indonesian VP wants medical personnel exempt from ritual requirements to wash before prayers during the pandemic: Vice President Demands Muslim Clerics Support Covid-19 Mitigation Tactics (Jakarta Globe) Amid violence through the Middle East, Canadian Jews, Christians, and Muslims are showing solidarity and working together to support their community: The Jewish-Muslim Team Providing Sharia [&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-81620","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\/81620","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=81620"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81645,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81620\/revisions\/81645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}