{"id":83237,"date":"2020-10-02T05:49:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T10:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=83237"},"modified":"2020-10-02T05:49:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T10:49:44","slug":"news-and-analysis-10-2-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=83237","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (10\/2\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli murdered an unarmed autistic man and made 442 people homeless during the pandemic, demolishing &#8220;389 &#8230; homes and other structures in the West Bank, the majority for lacking building permits that Israeli authorities make virtually impossible to obtain&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2020\/10\/01\/israels-systematic-repression-palestinians-continues-during-pandemic#\">Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Systematic Repression of Palestinians Continues During Pandemic<\/a> (Human Rights Watch)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Over one &#8220;thousand academics and lawyers call on academic and government institutions around the world to cease subjecting those defending justice for Palestinians to censorship and penalisation&#8221; through the conflation of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/opinions\/2020\/10\/1\/repression-of-speech-and-scholarship-on-palestine-needs-to-end\/\">Repression of Speech and Scholarship on Palestine Needs to End<\/a> (AlJazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[T]he Taliban\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s choice of negotiators provides a glimpse into the movement\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vision for Afghanistan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s future&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/asia_pacific\/afghan-taliban-peace-talks\/2020\/09\/30\/a5333540-f859-11ea-85f7-5941188a98cd_story.html\">Shadow Politicians, Clerics and Soviet-era Fighters: The Taliban\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Team Negotiating Peace<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;For the longest time, Muslims have held onto the view that they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see race, which pushes aside important conversations needed around anti-Blackness that exists in the Muslim community, which dismisses our struggles and also our achievements&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/9\/30\/black-muslim-festival-a-first-of-its-kind\">First Black Muslim Festival to Launch amid Anti-racism Uprising<\/a> (AlJazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite the author&#8217;s &#8220;largely nonjudgmental view of Noble Drew Ali (1886-1929), the controversial founder of the Moorish Science Temple of America, a forerunner of the Nation of Islam &#8230;, Ali emerges as a con artist of unusual audacity&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/jacob-s-dorman\/the-princess-and-the-prophet\/\">The Princess and the Prophet: The Secret History of Magic, Race, and Moorish Muslims in America<\/a> (Kirkus Reviews)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iran offers to mediate between Armenia and Azerbaijan, as Rouhani declares, &#8220;Our region can no longer take instability and new wars&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/9\/30\/iran-says-recognises-azerbaijan-territorial-integrity\">Iran Reassures Azerbaijan, Slams Rumours\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 of Arms to Armenia<\/a> (AlJazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It &#8220;is unlikely that [Pakistan] will continue to moderate its engagement with [Iran and Turkey] in deference to Saudi Arabia&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldpoliticsreview.com\/articles\/29100\/how-kashmir-is-creating-a-rift-in-saudi-pakistan-relations\">Amid a Diplomatic Spat with Saudi Arabia, Pakistan Rethinks Its Foreign Policy<\/a> (World Politics Review)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;In a consent order, Emirates said it doesn&#8217;t believe the violation deserves enforcement action but agreed to the fine to settle the matter&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/yourvalley.net\/stories\/us-regulator-fines-emirates-400000-for-flights-over-iran,191807\">US Regulator Fines Emirates $400,000 for Flights over Iran<\/a> (Daily Independent)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What a joy in these trying times to see that #MsMarvel (a Pakistani American teen superhero!) has cast its lead role, a young actress named Iman Vellani! I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t wait to see the show!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8212; Mindy Kaling<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ctvnews.ca\/canada\/comic-fans-celebrate-casting-of-markham-ont-local-as-muslim-superhero-ms-marvel-1.5129559\">Comic Fans Celebrate Casting of Markham, Ont. 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