{"id":83119,"date":"2020-09-07T20:35:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T01:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=83119"},"modified":"2020-09-07T20:35:57","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T01:35:57","slug":"news-and-analysis-9-7-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=83119","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (9\/7\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<span lang=\"EN-US\">Muslim minorities in Montenegro &#8230; felt threatened<\/span>&#8221; and Muslims in neighboring states feared &#8220;<span lang=\"EN-US\">another genocide<\/span>&#8221; when the then incumbent, now defeated, Democratic <span lang=\"EN-US\">Party of Socialists &#8220;<\/span>inflamed ethnic tensions to take attention away from corruption scandals&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/ethnonationalism-backfired-montenegro-200903152827523.html\">How the Use of Ethnonationalism Backfired in Montenegro<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Dr Kafeel Khan was released on Tuesday after spending seven months in jail for criticising anti-Muslim citizenship law.&#8221; He accused his captors of &#8220;physical torture&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/08\/india-muslim-doctor-incarcerated-raising-voice-200829163202878.html\">India: How a Muslim Doctor Was Incarcerated for Raising His Voice<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An inconsistently applied concern for aesthetics is the government&#8217;s transparent excuse to deprive Athwajan miners their livelihood:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kashmirobserver.net\/2020\/09\/07\/kashmirs-banned-stones-part-iii-the-athwajan-tragedy\/\">Kashmir\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Banned Stones\u00e2\u20ac\u201dPart III: The Athwajan Tragedy<\/a> (Kashmir Observer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thewire.in\/rights\/jharkhand-muslim-lynching-tabrez-ansari\">rallying cry of violent Hindutva action<\/a> and has <a href=\"https:\/\/thewire.in\/rights\/jharkhand-man-dies-days-after-being-attacked-by-mob-forced-to-chant-jai-shri-ram\">preceded several lynchings&#8221;<\/a> on the 40-minute long recording of the transmission from the victim&#8217;s phone clearly points to murder, yet &#8220;the police has only registered a robbery case&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thewire.in\/communalism\/jai-shri-ram-muslim-driver-lynched-death-uttar-pradesh\">&#8216;Say Jai Shri Ram&#8217;, Killers of Muslim Man in NCR Said, Police Deny Murder Was Hate Crime<\/a> (The Wire)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The Israeli government is opposing a petition in the country&#8217;s Supreme Court by 40 citizens which says officers responsible for severe rights violations must not be given training by the Israeli Police&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thewire.in\/rights\/indian-police-officers-israel-training-kashmir\">In Israel, a Demand That Indian Police Coming for Training Be Screened for Kashmir Abuses<\/a> (The Wire)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Conflating Jewish people with the state of Israel as if we are one in the same is itself anti-Semitic\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8212; Stephanie Fox, executive director for Jewish Voice for Peace:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumnews1.com\/ky\/lexington\/politics\/2020\/09\/05\/linda-sarsour-democrats\">Condemnation of Linda Sarsour from Biden Campaign Amplifies Conflict Among Democrats<\/a> (Spectrum News 1)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The House-passed &#8220;version of the Defense Spending Bill &#8230; repeals the 2002 Iraq Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), which the administration has already used to justify the killing of an Iranian general&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.registerguard.com\/story\/opinion\/letters\/2020\/09\/06\/prevent-war-iran\/5722490002\/\">Prevent War with Iran<\/a> (Register-Guard)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>India and Iran share concerns over &#8220;the prospect of the Taliban regaining their dominant position in Afghanistan and what that would mean for regional security &#8230; [a]s the US pushes the intra-Afghan dialogue in Qatar between the\u00c2\u00a0 Taliban and the Afghani government&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/77983226.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst\">Situation in Ladakh \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcvery serious\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, says Jaishankar<\/a> (Times of India)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div>&#8220;Supreme Court lawyer Fuzail Ahmad Ayyubi &#8230; 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