{"id":83225,"date":"2020-09-29T17:47:19","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T22:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=83225"},"modified":"2020-09-29T17:47:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T22:47:19","slug":"news-and-analysis-9-29-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=83225","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (9\/29\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erdogan sides with Azerbaijan against Armenia &#8220;to boost his credentials with nationalists and distract from perpetual economic crisis at home&#8221; while Iran whose Azerbaijani community may be up to one fourth of its the population take a pragmatic approach:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/eurasianet.org\/perspectives-while-turkey-encourages-karabakh-violence-iran-fears-domestic-strife\">Perspectives | While Turkey Encourages Karabakh Violence, Iran Fears Domestic Strife<\/a> (Eurasia)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;UAE served as the backbone of the coalition&#8217;s ground war in Yemen and was involved with allied Yemeni militias in running a series of\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/4925f7f0fa654853bd6f2f57174179fe\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/apnews.com\/4925f7f0fa654853bd6f2f57174179fe&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1601478810395000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFSCtSN4kHPrQYLEn5fBhjakQbKdg\">secret torture facilities<\/a> there,&#8221; and &#8220;past weapons transfers to the UAE <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/08\/27\/trump-administration-should-not-sell-weapons-uae\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/08\/27\/trump-administration-should-not-sell-weapons-uae\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1601478810395000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHvKhDEf270JvMoTTDdB5QTa3y8-A\">have landed<\/a> in the hands of extremist groups &#8230; rebels included&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/09\/29\/dont-sell-weapons-to-the-uae\/?utm_medium=email\"> Don&#8217;t Sell Weapons to the UAE<\/a> (Reason)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[G]iven that the Taliban want to alter the current Afghan state into a theocracy while the other side wants to preserve as much of the current democratic setup as possible, the likely compromise will be a Sunni Afghan version of the Islamic Republic of Iran&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cgpolicy.org\/articles\/the-taliban-deal-u-s-jihadist-negotiations\/\">The Taliban Deal &amp; U.S.-Jihadist Negotiations<\/a> (Center for Global Policy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The death sentence for praising an imam above the Prophet (as) has experts &#8220;&#8216;deeply concerned over the lack of due process&#8217; &#8230; including being held incommunicado and having no access to a lawyer during his initial trial, which was not open to the public&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/africa\/un-human-rights-experts-demand-release-nigerian-muslim-singer-facing-execution\">UN Human Rights Experts Demand Release of Nigerian Muslim Singer Facing Execution<\/a> (VoA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;It took just fifteen days for New Delhi to take steps to address the demand in Buddhist majority Leh for constitutional safeguards to protect [a population of 33,000] &#8230; but a similar demand for protection to [7 million Muslims in Kashmir Valley] has no takers&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kashmirobserver.net\/2020\/09\/29\/future-of-kashmir-politics\/\">Future of Kashmir Politics<\/a> (Kashmir Observer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; while according to &#8220;[h]ighly placed sources &#8230; two persons have been arrested by the police for allegedly being part of a conspiracy that led to the killing of three labourers from Rajouri by the army&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thewire.in\/security\/kashmir-police-arrest-two-men-for-role-in-shopian-encounter\">Kashmir Police Arrest Two Men for Role in Shopian &#8216;Encounter&#8217;<\/a> (The Wire)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and a former chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir continues to sit in jail six months after her six month detention order was set to expire:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/how-long-do-you-propose-to-continue-supreme-court-asks-jammu-and-kashmir-administration-on-iltija-mufti-s-plea-challenging-her-mother-s-detention\/story-3TF434wdWCgtP6pcDtozRL.html\">\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcHow Long Do You Propose to Continue?\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Supreme Court Asks Jammu and Kashmir Administration on Iltija Mufti\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Plea Challenging Her Mother\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Detention<\/a> (Hindustan Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;By allotting a fragile residency status in East Jerusalem, Israel has succeeded to revoke and subsequently uproot more than 14,200 Palestinians&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/9\/27\/israels-silent-transfer-of-palestinians-out-of-palestine\">Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSilent Transfer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of Palestinians Out of Palestine<\/a> (AlJazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;This rule is akin to telling Muslim girls that they need permission to be a Muslim&#8221; &#8212; Sabina Mohyuddin, executive director of the American Muslim Advisory Council:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/09\/27\/us\/hijab-volleyball-disqualified-nashville-trnd\/index.html\">A Muslim Athlete Was Disqualified from Her High School Volleyball Match for Wearing a Hijab<\/a> (CNN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erdogan sides with Azerbaijan against Armenia &#8220;to boost his credentials with nationalists and distract from perpetual economic crisis at home&#8221; while Iran whose Azerbaijani community may be up to one fourth of its the population take a pragmatic approach: Perspectives | While Turkey Encourages Karabakh Violence, Iran Fears Domestic Strife (Eurasia) &#8220;UAE served as the [&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-83225","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\/83225","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=83225"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83234,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83225\/revisions\/83234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}