{"id":1241,"date":"2009-04-09T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=1241"},"modified":"2009-08-26T14:53:27","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T19:53:27","slug":"news-and-analysis-4909","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=1241","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (4\/9\/09)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Indonesian Muslims revere Islam in their personal life, Islamist parties are anticipated to lose votes due to backlash against past local victories and co-option of their positions by mainstream parties:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/04\/08\/AR2009040804077.html\">Indonesia Holds Fast To Secular Politics<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Obama&#8217;s plan for Afghanistan hinges on the US&#8217;s ability to break the cycle of corruption:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/09\/world\/asia\/09ghazni.html?pagewanted=1&amp;_r=1&amp;ref=world\">Corruption Undercuts U.S. Hope for Afghan Police<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>MEK members argue their cooperation in disarming entitles them to remain in the communities they built:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2009\/0408\/p06s01-wome.html\">Invited by Saddam: Iranian Opposition Members Refuse to Leave Iraq Outpost<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iranian government continues to oppress journalist, academics under the guise of espionage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-iran-journalist9-2009apr09,0,64637.story\">Iran Charges Imprisoned Journalist with Spying<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; meanwhile, under the guise of investigating whether Hezbollah authorized a 49-person cell to carry out attack from within Egypt,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2009\/04\/2009498338693164.html\">Egypt Arrests &#8216;Hezbollah Agents&#8217;<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another critical step towards restoring diplomatic with Iran:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/09\/world\/middleeast\/09iran.html?ref=world\">U.S. to Join Iran Talks Over Nuclear Program<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Indonesian Muslims revere Islam in their personal life, Islamist parties are anticipated to lose votes due to backlash against past local victories and co-option of their positions by mainstream parties: Indonesia Holds Fast To Secular Politics (Washington Post) Obama&#8217;s plan for Afghanistan hinges on the US&#8217;s ability to break the cycle of corruption: Corruption [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241","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\/1241","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1241"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2053,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241\/revisions\/2053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}