{"id":11034,"date":"2014-03-12T15:58:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T20:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=11034"},"modified":"2014-03-12T15:59:01","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T20:59:01","slug":"news-and-analysis-31214","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=11034","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (3\/12\/14)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Not God took my son away, but [Prime Minister Recep] Tayyip Erdo\u00c4\u0178an&#8221; &#8211;\u00c2\u00a0the boy&#8217;s mother:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/mar\/11\/turkish-police-teargas-protests-boy-15-dies\">Turkish Police Fire Teargas to Quell Protests After Boy, 15, Dies<\/a> (Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both Jordan and the PA have demanded an investigation in to the &#8220;shooting at close range&#8221; of a judge from Jordan as he crossed the Allenby bridge to visit relatives. &#8220;In a separate incident, Israeli soldiers shot dead a 20-year-old Palestinian in the West Bank &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0while tending his family&#8217;s goats near his home&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/03\/10\/us-palestinians-israel-violence-idUSBREA290DE20140310\">Israeli Soldiers Kill Palestinian at Jordan Crossing<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Senator Dianne Feinstein said on the Senate floor that such activities &#8220;may have undermined the constitutional framework&#8221; of government oversight.\u00c2\u00a0The Senate panel was investigating allegations of abuse during a CIA detention and interrogation programme&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-26533323\">Senate Intelligence Head Says CIA &#8216;Searched Computers<\/a>&#8216; (BBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;An attorney representing a group of Muslim students found guilty of disrupting a speech by the Israeli ambassador said she will appeal the case, which she said tests whether &#8216;peaceful, measured student protests&#8217; should be a crime&#8221;:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-muslim-students-convicted-20140310,0,2243315.story#axzz2vhEb5Om9\">Muslim Students to Appeal Conviction in &#8216;Irvine 11&#8217; Case<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8221; Saudi Arabia&#8217;s fierce campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood, already on the run in its Egyptian birthplace, has divided a Gulf Arab bloc, causing discomfort in some member states where the Islamist group is embedded in daily politics&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/03\/12\/us-gulf-saudi-brotherhood-analysis-idUSBREA2B0FX20140312?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=topNews\">Saudi Listing of Brotherhood as Terrorist Group Complicates Gulf Ties<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">&#8220;Silicon Valley&#8217;s model of empowerment and equality couldn&#8217;t be more different from Israel&#8217;s technology hub or its practices of technology disenfranchisement for Palestinians[, t]he agreement between Gov. Jerry Brown and Netanyahu dangerously ignores [this] and implicitly condones effective technology apartheid&#8221;:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/news\/ci_25315043\">Sam Jadallah: Netanyahu&#8217;s Silicon Valley Visit a Lost Opportunity<\/a> (Mercury News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Now we want to start the journey of peace in the Muslim world. The starting point is to dialogue, by inviting all the scholars to meet. There is a culture of peace in the Islamic heritage\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/2014\/03\/11\/islamic-scholars-establish-prizes-for-peace-recommend-muslim-peace-teams\/\">Islamic Scholars Establish Prizes for Peace, Recommend Muslim Peace Teams<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The fact that a three-day course that lost its accreditation will still be taught in Virginia is just one example of how anti-Islamic propagandists &#8220;continue to win lucrative fees to train law enforcement officers despite a history of rhetoric that seems to undermine their credibility&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2014\/03\/12\/anti-muslim-speakers-still-popular-law-enforcement-training\/\">Anti-Muslim Speakers Still Popular in Law Enforcement Training<\/a> (RNS)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The debacle underlines the impotence of the authorities in Tripoli, whose fledgling army and police force are no match for the militias and other armed groups who remain a law unto themselves three years after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi&#8230;. 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