{"id":82915,"date":"2020-07-30T19:20:05","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T00:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=82915"},"modified":"2020-07-30T19:20:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T00:20:09","slug":"news-and-analysis-7-30-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=82915","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (7\/30\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Will Trump continue to pushing &#8220;a candidate whose public statements have evinced intolerance to Islam at a time when the military and the rest of the country is reckoning with America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s painful legacy of discrimination&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/congress\/2020\/07\/30\/senate-hearing-cancelled-for-controversial-pentagon-nominee-anthony-tata\/\">Senate Hearing Canceled for Controversial Pentagon Nominee Anthony Tata<\/a> (Defense News)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to Erdogan&#8217;s backfiring forced religious education campaign students are &#8220;increasingly likely to describe themselves as atheists, deists or feminists, and challenge the interpretation of Islam being taught at school&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/erdogans-iron-fist-comes-down-on-democracy-and-religious-liberty\/\">Erdogan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Iron Fist Comes Down on Democracy and Religious Liberty<\/a> (The American Conservative)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>While the BJP claimed that the new law was part of its efforts to secure jobs in Kashmir, it actually acts against the interests of unemployed youth in Kashmir&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/kashmir-new-domicile-rules-spark-fresh-anger-a-year-after-india-removed-regions-special-status-142696\">Kashmir: New Domicile Rules Spark Fresh Anger a Year After India Removed Region\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Special Status<\/a> (The Conversation)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>As Indonesia rises as a soft power in the international Muslim movement, the Saudis and UAE play a complex game that challenges MbS attempt to project himself as the champion of moderation and progress:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/insidearabia.com\/indonesia-a-major-prize-in-the-battle-for-the-soul-of-islam\/\">Indonesia: A Major Prize in the Battle for the Soul of Islam<\/a> (Inside Arabia)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Families of the victims say compensation is not Justice. &#8220;We need closure to know what exactly happened on that night. Justice is discovering all the truth and prosecuting all those responsible for this heinous crime&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/edmonton\/families-of-iran-plane-crash-victims-want-to-play-a-larger-role-in-investigation-1.5667676\">Families of Iran Plane Crash Victims Want to Play a Larger Role in Investigation<\/a> (CBC)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>China does not want to repeat America&#8217;s disastrous Middle East adventurism, but rather to develop &#8220;commercial relationships that are not backed by conventional military force;&#8221; but the Iranian public is skeptical:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5872771\/china-iran-deal\/\">What China&#8217;s New Deal with Iran Says About Its Ambitions in the Region<\/a> (Time)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chinese government continues to claim that the concentration &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/world\/2018\/10\/16\/17983126\/uighur-muslims-china-detention-centers-xinjiang\">camps<\/a> are merely vocational and training centers&#8230;.&#8221;  <em>Arbeit macht frie?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2020\/7\/28\/21333345\/uighurs-china-internment-camps-forced-labor-xinjiang\">Concentration Camps and Forced Labor: China\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Repression of the Uighurs, Explained<\/a> (Vox)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Independent watchers &#8230; say the &#8230; government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brutal policies  &#8230;  have &#8230; only decimated the pro-India constituency in the politically sensitive Valley, and, &#8230; provoked the rise of a young generation with a die-hard attitude&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/300720\/mutilation-of-kashmir-separatist-voices-stilled-but-a-diehard-new-bre.html\">Mutilation of Kashmir: Separatist Voices Stilled but a Diehard New Breed Is Born<\/a> (Deccan Chronicle)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The victim claimed to be the Prophet.  &#8220;It was not immediately clear how the assailant, identified as Khalid Khan, managed to get into the court amid tight security&#8221;:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/pakistan-blasphemy-suspect-killed-courtroom\/\">U.S. Citizen Accused of Insulting Islam Shot Dead in Pakistan Courtroom<\/a> (CBS News)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Trump continue to pushing &#8220;a candidate whose public statements have evinced intolerance to Islam at a time when the military and the rest of the country is reckoning with America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s painful legacy of discrimination&#8221;: Senate Hearing Canceled for Controversial Pentagon Nominee Anthony Tata (Defense News) Thanks to Erdogan&#8217;s backfiring forced religious education campaign students [&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-82915","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\/82915","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=82915"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82926,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82915\/revisions\/82926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}