{"id":92443,"date":"2025-08-26T04:54:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=92443"},"modified":"2025-08-26T04:54:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T09:54:19","slug":"news-and-analysis-8-26-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=92443","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis 8\/26\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli war crimes continue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/08\/25\/nx-s1-5515630\/israel-gaza-journalists-killed-hospital\">Israeli Strikes Kill 22, Including 5 Journalists, in a Gaza Hospital<\/a> (NPR)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/shafaq.com\/en\/Middle-East\/Gaza-death-toll-rises-Israel-kills-39-Palestinians-overnight\">Gaza Death Toll Rises: Israel Kills 39 Palestinians Overnight<\/a> (Shafaq)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palestinechronicle.com\/children-among-victims-as-israeli-bombardment-intensifies-in-gaza\/\">Children among Victims as Israeli Bombardment Intensifies in Gaza<\/a> (Palestine Chronicle)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-palestinians-hamas-gaza-war-08-24-2025-616dcac7f06b94119e692094d9515f16\">4 Palestinians Shot Dead by Israeli Forces While Seeking Aid near Gaza City, Witnesses Say<\/a> (AP)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/liveblog\/2025\/8\/26\/live-world-outraged-over-israeli-attack-on-gaza-hospital-journalists\">LIVE: Israel Starves Three Palestinians to Death in Gaza<\/a> (Aljazeerah)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;In Pakistan, hundreds are in jail on charges of blaspheming Islam. Rights groups say some of these cases are due to bad actors\u2019 entrapping victims online&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/08\/24\/world\/asia\/pakistan-blasphemy-islam.html\">How Online Chats Are Leading to Imprisonment for Blasphemy<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Zionist war on free speech &#8212; and the resistance &#8212; continues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/aug\/25\/screenwriter-paul-laverty-arrested-palestine-action-edinburgh\">Screenwriter Paul Laverty Arrested at Palestine Protest in Edinburgh<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/news\/local\/detroit-city\/2025\/08\/25\/muslim-group-wayne-state-university-hostile-campus\/85614317007\/\">Muslim Group Names Wayne State University a \u2018Hostile Campus\u2019 for Free Speech<\/a> (Detroit News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The International Organization for Migration (<em>IOM<\/em>) also reported that 500 people had fled Abu Shouk camp to other sites inside El Fasher, amid continued tension and insecurity&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20250825-sudan-rsf-accused-of-abducting-8-displaced-women-from-camp-in-western-sudan\/\">Sudan: RSF Accused of Abducting 8 Displaced Women from Camp in Western Sudan<\/a> (Middle East Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Fitness is treated as vanity when women pursue it. The truth is, their health depends on breaking that taboo&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kashmirobserver.net\/2025\/08\/25\/the-taboo-that-keeps-kashmiri-women-out-of-gyms\/\">The Taboo that Keeps Kashmiri Women Out of Gyms<\/a> (Kashmir Observer)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Loomer\u2019s mentor [Pamela] Geller was forced out of CPAC in 2010 for accusing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/gellerhypocrite\/\">CPAC board member Grover Norquist<\/a> (and his wife) of &#8216;ties to Islamic supremacists and jihadists'&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/the-loomering-of-injured-gazan-children\/?ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_1_21_2025_13_26_COPY_01)&amp;mc_cid=588c88561f&amp;mc_eid=4841da88e5\">The Loomering of Injured Gazan Children<\/a> (The American Conservative)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Russia\u2019s proposal to extend the expiration date of Resolution 2231, if ratified, would allow more time for U.S.\u2013Iran relations to normalize and negotiations to begin&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/report-russia-proposes-extending-iran-sanctions-snapback-timeline\/\">Report: Russia Proposes Extending Iran Sanctions Snapback Timeline<\/a> (The American Conservative)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Despite his extraordinary feats, Battuta is overlooked in the West, especially compared to Marco Polo, says Christian Sahner, associate professor of Islamic history at University of Oxford. This is largely due to language barriers and cultural disconnects&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/travel\/2025\/08\/26\/ibn-battutas-travels-700-years-since-muslim-scholar-set-out-on-historic-exploration-of-islamic-world\/\">Ibn Battuta: 700 Years on from Muslim Scholar&#8217;s Historic Travels<\/a> (The National)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As Australia &#8220;announced plans to expel Iran\u2019s ambassador to Canberra&#8221; over &#8220;&#8216;credible intelligence&#8217; that Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was&#8221; behind a &#8221; spate of vandalism and violent attacks on synagogues and Jewish community sites in Sydney and Melbourne&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/2025\/aug\/26\/australias-move-against-iran-over-antisemitic-attacks-hailed-by-israel-but-anthony-albanese-should-not-expect-praise-to-last-ntwnfb\">Australia\u2019s Move Against Iran over Antisemitic Attacks Hailed by Israel \u2013 but PM Should Not Expect Praise to Last<\/a> (The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; &#8220;State Department official Mora Namdar has instituted what one person described as a &#8216;pocket veto&#8217; over funding to help Iranians evade online censorship&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2025\/08\/25\/state-department-iran-censorship-internet\/\">U.S. Funding Break Imperils Internet Freedom Projects in Iran<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli war crimes continue: Israeli Strikes Kill 22, Including 5 Journalists, in a Gaza Hospital (NPR) Gaza Death Toll Rises: Israel Kills 39 Palestinians Overnight (Shafaq) Children among Victims as Israeli Bombardment Intensifies in Gaza (Palestine Chronicle) 4 Palestinians Shot Dead by Israeli Forces While Seeking Aid near Gaza City, Witnesses Say (AP) LIVE: Israel [&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-92443","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\/92443","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=92443"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92452,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92443\/revisions\/92452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}