{"id":83166,"date":"2020-09-18T15:51:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T20:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=83166"},"modified":"2020-09-18T15:51:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T20:51:30","slug":"news-and-analysis-9-18-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=83166","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (9\/18\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That Jacob Blake&#8217;s father recited a Muslim prayer after the &#8220;police gunned down his son in Kenosha&#8221; evokes &#8220;just how deeply embedded Islam is within the Black community&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5884176\/islam-black-lives-matter-policing-muslims\/\">\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcAt the Intersection of Two Criminalized Identities\u00e2\u20ac\u2122: Black and Non-Black Muslims Confront a Complicated Relationship with Policing and Anti-Blackness<\/a> (Time)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If Pompeo &#8220;intends to enforce the non-existent U.N. sanctions at midnight GMT on September 20&#8242; &#8230; [that[ would entail U.S. warships attacking and confiscating Iranian cargo ships in international waters \u00e2\u20ac\u201d as well as non-Iranian vessels suspected of carrying Iranian goods&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/responsiblestatecraft.org\/2020\/09\/16\/is-mike-pompeo-preparing-an-october-surprise\/?mc_cid=0ffb01d222&amp;mc_eid=4841da88e5\">Is Mike Pompeo Preparing an October Surprise?<\/a> (Responsible Statecraft)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;If we put the two texts of the normalisation announcement and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/topics\/trump-israel-palestine-plan-deal-of-the-century\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">deal of the century<\/a> together, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not hard to understand what they mean by saying that Muslims will be praying [only] in the al-Qibli chapel with the lead dome&#8221; &#8212; Ziyad Ibhais, a researcher on Jerusalem affairs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/jerusalem-al-aqsa-palestinians-uae-israel-deal-fait-accompli\">How the UAE-Israel Deal Seeks to Impose a &#8216;Fait Accompli&#8217; in Jerusalem<\/a> (Middle East Eye)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is no evidence that the rumors of an Iranian plan to assassinate\u00c2\u00a0 a U.S. diplomat are true, but if they were true, they would be yet more evidence that the Trump policies are failing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/iran-assassination-plot-shows-flaws-of-trump-aggressive-foreign-policy-2020-9\">Rumors of an Iranian Assassination Plot Offer Lessons that Trump Can&#8217;t Seem to Learn<\/a> (Business Insider)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>News item for Anglo-American bigots, Muslims came here first, accompanying Spanish conquistadores:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/09\/17\/magazine\/im-a-muslim-and-arab-american-will-i-ever-be-an-equal-citizen.html\">I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a Muslim and Arab American. Will I Ever Be an Equal Citizen?<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With the courts cracking down on the Trump administration&#8217;s illegal actions &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurist.org\/news\/2020\/09\/new-york-federal-judge-berates-prosecutors-for-mishandling-evidence\/#\">New York Federal Judge Berates Prosecutors for Mishandling Evidence in Iran Sanctions Case<\/a> (Jurist)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; will Trump resort to an executive order to implement his &#8220;withdrawal from&#8221; (i.e., breach of) the JCPOA?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/09\/trump-eyes-executive-order-punish-arms-trade-iran-report-200918010423996.html\">Trump Eyes Executive Order to Punish Arms Trade with Iran: Report<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Like Iran, Saudi Arabia has a nuclear energy program.\u00c2\u00a0 Unlike Iran, the Saudis have never agreed to international inspections:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/17\/revealed-saudi-arabia-may-have-enough-uranium-ore-to-produce-nuclear-fuel\">Revealed: Saudi Arabia May Have Enough Uranium Ore to Produce Nuclear Fuel<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Police prevented her from commenting &#8220;on a deadly LAPD shooting the year prior&#8221; when three of then &#8220;aggressively manhandled&#8221; her &#8220;without any warning,&#8221; pushed her to the wall, handcuffed her] and shoved her into another room to humiliate her by stripping off her headscarf:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2020-09-17\/muslim-woman-files-federal-lawsuit-over-lapd-officers-removing-her-hijab\">Muslim Woman Files Federal Lawsuit over LAPD Officers Removing Her Hijab<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Continuing oppression of Jammu and Kashmir includes crackdowns on journalists, on commerce, and on foreign relief efforts, military murders, and police killings and cover-ups:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theleaflet.in\/media-policy-2020-mocking-freedom-of-speech-and-expression-in-jammu-and-kashmir\/#\">Media Policy 2020: Mocking Freedom of Speech and Expression in Jammu and Kashmir<\/a> (The Leaflet)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kashmirobserver.net\/2020\/09\/18\/what-government-reports-tell-about-business-in-kashmir\/\">What Government Reports Tell About Business In Kashmir<\/a> (Kashmir Observer)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/intel-agencies-to-probe-new-turkish-ngo-outreach-in-kashmir-official\/story-fFXlcpCyIVz9jF6bqB7GrO.html\">Intel Agencies to Probe New Turkish NGO Outreach in Kashmir: Official<\/a> (Hindustan Times)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourvalley.net\/stories\/indian-military-admits-wrongdoing-in-3-kashmir-killings,188481\">Indian Military Admits Wrongdoing in 3 Kashmir Killings<\/a> (Daily Independent)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/17\/kashmir-protests-erupt-after-alleged-cover-up-of-death-in-custody\">Kashmir Protests Erupt After Alleged Cover-up of Death in Custody<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; but Kashmiri&#8217;s must blame themselves for their denial of women the property rights conferred upon them by Islam:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kashmirobserver.net\/2020\/09\/18\/the-curious-case-of-womens-inheritance-rights-in-kashmir\/\">The Curious Case of Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Inheritance Rights in Kashmir<\/a> (Kashmir Observer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That Jacob Blake&#8217;s father recited a Muslim prayer after the &#8220;police gunned down his son in Kenosha&#8221; evokes &#8220;just how deeply embedded Islam is within the Black community&#8221;: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcAt the Intersection of Two Criminalized Identities\u00e2\u20ac\u2122: Black and Non-Black Muslims Confront a Complicated Relationship with Policing and Anti-Blackness (Time) If Pompeo &#8220;intends to enforce the non-existent [&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-83166","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\/83166","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=83166"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83182,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83166\/revisions\/83182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}