{"id":83094,"date":"2020-09-03T16:29:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T21:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=83094"},"modified":"2020-09-03T16:29:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T21:29:57","slug":"news-and-analysis-9-3-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=83094","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (9\/3\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook took down political posts critical of the BJP but not hate speech against Muslims. One post &#8220;dubbed Muslims in India a &#8216;degenerate community'&#8221; and many of the dozens of Muslims&#8217; lynchings were &#8220;triggered by fake news &#8230; on WhatsApp&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/09\/india-parliament-panel-grill-facebook-anti-muslim-posts-200901100833278.html\">Indian MPs Grill Facebook over Hate Speech, Allegations of Bias<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Is it so hard to understand that journalists, in the normal course of their work, must make contact with the people they write about?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trtworld.com\/magazine\/in-pictures-the-price-of-journalism-in-kashmir-39427\">In Pictures: The Price of Journalism in Kashmir<\/a> (TRT World)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An opposition leader accuses the BJP government of &#8220;lying about normalcy in Kashmir. If that is the case (that there is normalcy), then why were senior leaders of a political party placed under house arrest and not allowed to meet?&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstpost.com\/india\/jammu-and-kashmir-admin-stopped-leaders-under-illegal-house-detention-from-attending-party-meet-alleges-pdp-8782081.html\">Jammu and Kashmir Admin Stopped Leaders Under &#8216;Illegal&#8217; House Detention from Attending Party Meet, Alleges PDP<\/a> (Firstpost)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>India has denied statehood to Kashmir to give the &#8220;central government a direct control over the region&#8221; to reclaim it form Islam because it imagines &#8220;the seven centuries of Muslim history are an aberration and it is time the region returned to its civilisational mothership&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/020920\/delimitation-next-stop-in-modi-governments-kashmir-project.html\">Delimitation Next Stop in Modi Government&#8217;s Kashmir Project<\/a> (Deccan Chronicle)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Youssef, &#8220;up for two Emmys for the second season of his comedy series, <em>Ramy<\/em>, about a practicing Muslim who&#8217;s torn between his faith and his desire to fit in,&#8221; talks about how his Egyptian immigrant father managed a Trump hotel:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/09\/03\/909180380\/comic-ramy-youssef-on-being-an-allah-carte-muslim-you-sit-in-contradictions\">Comic Ramy Youssef On Being an &#8216;Allah Carte&#8217; Muslim: &#8216;You Sit in Contradictions&#8217;<\/a> (NPR)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Amnesty International knows of more than a dozen persons who &#8220;have received flogging sentences, in addition to prison terms, &#8230; at least two [of whom] have had their flogging sentences implemented&#8221; and &#8220;is aware of three ongoing cases of enforced disappearance&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/latest\/news\/2020\/09\/iran-detainees-flogged-sexually-abused-and-given-electric-shocks-in-gruesome-post-protest-crackdown-new-report\/\">Iran: Detainees Flogged, Sexually Abused and Given Electric Shocks in Gruesome Post-protest Crackdown \u00e2\u20ac\u201c New Report<\/a> (Amnesty International)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[A]uthoritarian regimes &#8230; tend to explain human rights violations by citing &#8216;national security&#8217; needs&#8221; , &#8230; [so] this statement is not particularly helpful in determining the scope of actions prohibited &#8230; [with] respect for the sovereignty of another State in cyberspace&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justsecurity.org\/72181\/iran-joins-discussions-of-sovereignty-and-non-intervention-in-cyberspace\/\">Iran Joins Discussions of Sovereignty and Non-Intervention in Cyberspace<\/a> (Just Security)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As Western global hegemony delineates &#8220;what is progressive and what is not; we run the risk of stereotyping our own ways of life. &#8230; Ideas of progress, liberation and freedom are being redefined by [M]uslim[s] worldover and Kashmiri women occupy the frontlines&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kashmirobserver.net\/2020\/09\/02\/being-a-muslim-woman-in-kashmir-2\/\">Being a Muslim Woman in Kashmir<\/a> (Kashmir Observer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars, says that those who &#8220;insult Prophet Muhammad, who teaches goodness, justice and freedom, &#8221; expose their lack of morality and honor, but that &#8220;Muslims will not respond to such ignorance with ignorance&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/world\/muslim-scholars-slam-reprinting-of-anti-islam-cartoons\/1962098\">Muslim Scholars Slam Reprinting of Anti-Islam Cartoons<\/a> (Andalu Agency)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook took down political posts critical of the BJP but not hate speech against Muslims. One post &#8220;dubbed Muslims in India a &#8216;degenerate community&#8217;&#8221; and many of the dozens of Muslims&#8217; lynchings were &#8220;triggered by fake news &#8230; on WhatsApp&#8221;: Indian MPs Grill Facebook over Hate Speech, Allegations of Bias (Aljazeera) \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Is it so hard [&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-83094","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\/83094","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=83094"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83108,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83094\/revisions\/83108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}