{"id":83404,"date":"2020-11-06T11:50:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T16:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=83404"},"modified":"2020-11-06T11:50:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T16:50:48","slug":"news-and-analysis-11-6-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=83404","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (11\/6\/20)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delaware, Indiana, Wisconsin and Oklahoma elect their first ever Muslim legislators &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/politics\/madinah-wilson-anton-to-be-delawares-first-muslim-legislator\/7669964\/\">Madinah Wilson-Anton Wins Election, to Become Delaware&#8217;s First Muslim Legislator<\/a> (6abc)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indystar.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2020\/11\/05\/indiana-election-qaddoura-becomes-first-muslim-elected-statehouse\/6166572002\/\">Qaddoura Becomes First Muslim Elected to Indiana Statehouse as Dems Pick Up One Senate Seat<\/a> (Indy Star)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisn.com\/article\/voters-elect-first-muslim-to-wisconsin-legislature\/34588519\">Voters Elect First Muslim to Wisconsin Legislature<\/a> (WISN)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2020\/11\/05\/mauree-turner-oklahoma-picks-nations-first-muslim-nonbinary-lawmaker\/6172605002\/\">Oklahoma Elects Mauree Turner, the Nation&#8217;s First Muslim, Nonbinary State Legislator<\/a> (USA Today)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and a Muslim woman defeats the incumbent mayor of a California city:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2020\/11\/04\/after-election-irvine-looks-poised-to-change-its-mayor-and-half-its-council\/\">After Election, Irvine Looks Poised to Change its Mayor and Half Its Counci<\/a>l (Orange County Register)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Osama Joda, a 23-year-old Muslim was hailed as a hero for risking his life during the horrifying ideal which saw a convicted IS supporter <a href=\"https:\/\/english.alaraby.co.uk\/english\/news\/2020\/11\/3\/vienna-gunman-is-supporter-who-fooled-the-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kill at least 4 people<\/a> and injure dozens more&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/english.alaraby.co.uk\/english\/news\/2020\/11\/3\/palestinian-immigrant-honoured-for-saving-vienna-officer-during-attack\">Palestinian Immigrant Honoured for Saving Police Officer During Vienna Attack<\/a> (New Arab)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; but two Muslims of Turkish origin thanked by the mayor for bringing the wounded to safety are now denying allegations of past association with an ultranationalist Turkish organization:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/11\/4\/heroes\"> Vienna Attack: The Muslim Heroes Who Saved Live<\/a>s (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Israelis have discovered that an effective way to persuade people to leave their homes is to burn them down:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/05\/israeli-forces-leave-41-children-homeless-after-razing-palestinian-village-un-says\">Israeli Forces Leave 41 Children Homeless After Razing Palestinian Village, UN Says<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palestinechronicle.com\/eu-calls-on-israel-to-halt-demolition-policy\/\">EU Calls on Israel to Halt Demolition Policy<\/a> (Palestine Chronicle)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Israeli settlers increase their attacks on olive farmers during harvest season &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/israel-palestine-olive-harvest-settlers-attacks\"> &#8216;I Cry for My Trees&#8217;: Israeli Settler Attacks Wreck Palestinian Olive Harvest<\/a> (Middle East Eye)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; and the U.N. notes with disapproval that &#8220;Israeli Security Forces intervened in clashes between Palestinians and settlers, including by shooting tear gas canisters and rubber bullets, resulting in the injury of olive harvesters, and forcing them to leave the groves&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2020\/11\/1076952\">Protect Palestine Olive Harvest from Settler Violence, Israel Urged<\/a> (UN News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;While Iran has long been pro-bitcoin, having regulated the crypto industry since August 2019, the country made a major move last week to take cryptocurrency adoption to the next level&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/iran-bitcoin-sanctions-inflation\/\">Iran Adopts Bitcoin for International Trade Amid Heavy Sanctions, Falling Rial, Soaring Inflation<\/a> (bitcoin.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;All the charts mapping out interests, American or international, aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t convincing enough to explain how, in a matter that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so clear-cut and obvious \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the illegality and injustice of the occupation, the rush toward establishing an apartheid state and the suffering of the Palestinian people, &#8230; there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no difference between U.S. administrations&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/opinion\/.premium-neither-biden-nor-trump-will-make-israel-end-the-occupation-1.9288732\">Neither Biden nor Trump Will Make Israel End the Occupation<\/a> (Haaretz)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The other jackboot drops as India imposes laws on Jammu and Kashmir without their approval:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/politics-and-nation\/centre-notifies-implementation-of-11-central-laws-in-jammu-kashmir-changes-made-in-10-state-acts\/articleshow\/78516880.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&amp;utm_medium=text&amp;utm_campaign=cppst\">Laws Recently Passed by Parliament Extended to Jammu &amp; Kashmir<\/a> (India Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delaware, Indiana, Wisconsin and Oklahoma elect their first ever Muslim legislators &#8230; Madinah Wilson-Anton Wins Election, to Become Delaware&#8217;s First Muslim Legislator (6abc) Qaddoura Becomes First Muslim Elected to Indiana Statehouse as Dems Pick Up One Senate Seat (Indy Star) Voters Elect First Muslim to Wisconsin Legislature (WISN) Oklahoma Elects Mauree Turner, the Nation&#8217;s First [&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-83404","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\/83404","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=83404"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83416,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83404\/revisions\/83416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}