{"id":83192,"date":"2020-09-21T12:39:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=83192"},"modified":"2020-09-21T12:39:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T17:39:00","slug":"news-and-analysis-9-21-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=83192","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (9\/21\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Scottboro school board candidate wants to &#8220;ban Islam,&#8221; insists that the Constitution prohibits Muslim s from holding public office, and accuses Jewish-Hungarian holocaust survivor George Soros of being a Nazi:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottsdale.org\/city_news\/board-candidate-defends-anti-muslim-posts\/article_6c0e45be-f9d7-11ea-adb2-27840dfb3b36.html\">Board Candidate Defends Anti-Muslim Posts<\/a> (Scottsdale Progress)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>No longer satisfied to claim that the Constitution gives him dictatorial power over the United States, Trump now issues an executive order to force the United Nations to impose sanctions on Iran:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefings-statements\/statement-president-regarding-new-restrictions-irans-nuclear-ballistic-missile-conventional-weapons-pursuits\/\">Statement by the President Regarding New Restrictions on Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Nuclear, Ballistic Missile, and Conventional Weapons Pursuits<\/a> (White House)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>American Jews resist the &#8220;anti-Semite&#8221; slur, with 31% saying they &#8220;would vote for either [Ilhan] Omar or [Rashida] Tlaib outright, [and] with another 23% saying that Israel would not be the deciding factor if they were not in agreement with the candidate on other issues&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mondoweiss.net\/2020\/09\/up-to-1-in-4-us-jews-sees-zionism-as-racist-colonialist-apartheid-movement-says-rightwing-israeli-thinktank\/\">Up to 1 in 4 US Jews Sees Zionism as Racist, Colonialist Apartheid Movement! (Says Rightwing Israeli Thinktank)<\/a> (Mondoweiss)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Khamenie did not mention that when Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein attacked Iran, the U.S. armed both sides of war, a &#8220;dual containment strategy&#8221; intended to help Muslims kill one another.\u00c2\u00a0 This time around they would arm only the Arab dictators and their Israeli ally:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20200921-khamenei-says-war-with-iraq-proved-iran-can-defend-itself\">Khamenei Says War with Iraq Proved Iran\u00c2\u00a0 Can Defend Itself<\/a> (France 24)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After the UAE has knuckled under to U.S. pressure to formalize its alliance with Israel, Iran can no longer count on the UAE&#8217;s central bank closing its eyes to circumventions of American sanctions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-54176127\"> FinCEN Files: UAE C entral Bank Failed to Prevent Iran Sanctions Evasion<\/a> (BBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\" href=\"https:\/\/3e6dalits2015.weebly.com\/article.html\">Discrimination against &#8220;Dalits does not end if they convert \u00c2\u00a0to another religion,&#8221;<\/a><span style=\"color: #2a2a2a;\"> but their few privileges, such as reserved seats on elected commissions, do:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/swarajyamag.com\/politics\/fake-sc-certificate-how-a-dalit-woman-converted-to-islam-for-nikah-used-haj-subsidy-and-yet-fought-poll-on-dalit-reserved-seat\">Fake SC Certificate: How a Dalit Woman Converted to Islam for Nikah, Used Haj Subsidy and Yet Fought Poll on Dalit-Reserved Seat<\/a> (Swarajya)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Historically, regime change in Afghanistan has been decided not so much by overwhelming military force as through key defections&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mei.edu\/blog\/monday-briefing-afghanistan-major-player-plans-jump-ship\">Monday Briefing: In Afghanistan a Major Player Plans to Jump Ship<\/a> (Middle East Institute)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Scottboro school board candidate wants to &#8220;ban Islam,&#8221; insists that the Constitution prohibits Muslim s from holding public office, and accuses Jewish-Hungarian holocaust survivor George Soros of being a Nazi: Board Candidate Defends Anti-Muslim Posts (Scottsdale Progress) No longer satisfied to claim that the Constitution gives him dictatorial power over the United States, Trump [&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-83192","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\/83192","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=83192"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83200,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83192\/revisions\/83200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}