{"id":141,"date":"2006-12-07T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-07T17:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=141"},"modified":"2006-12-07T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-07T17:08:00","slug":"news-and-analysis-120706","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (12\/07\/06)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Battle lines being drawn in Baghdad:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/12\/07\/AR2006120700399.html\">Battle for Baghdad Spurs &#8216;Sectarian&#8217; House Market <\/a>(Washington Post\/Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">UN Security Council, at the urging of the U.S., endorses peacekeepers for Somalia to &#8216;prop up&#8217; another puppet regime:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/12\/07\/AR2006120700119.html\">Rage and Delight at Somali Peacekeeper Move<\/a> (Washington Post\/Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Malaysian city to impose fines for &#8216;tight fitting clothes&#8217;: &#8216;I would like to know what is the (acceptable) level of tightness of a pair of pants or jeans, and what happens to those of us who have larger buttocks?&#8217;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/world\/AP-Malaysia-Revealing-Attire.html\">Malaysian Women Warned of &#8216;Sexy&#8217; Attire<\/a> (NY Times\/AP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Saudi Arabia fires advisor over op-ed in the Washington Post<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/12\/06\/AR2006120601821.html\">Saudi Arabia Fires Security Consultant for Iraq Remarks<\/a> (Reuters\/Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Breaking stereotypes, addressing taboos, and increasing understanding through laughs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/12\/07\/arts\/television\/07mosq.html?pagewanted=1&#038;_r=1\">Sitcom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Precarious Premise: Being Muslim Over Here <\/a>(NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A summary of the various reactions to the Iraq Study Groups Report:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/6913BBF7-8227-4516-A90F-E68498F8CC7A.htm\">Mixed Reaction to Iraq Report<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--><!--[endif]--><strong><span style=\"font-size: 19.5pt; font-family: Arial-BoldMT\"><!--[endif]--><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Battle lines being drawn in Baghdad: Battle for Baghdad Spurs &#8216;Sectarian&#8217; House Market (Washington Post\/Reuters) UN Security Council, at the urging of the U.S., endorses peacekeepers for Somalia to &#8216;prop up&#8217; another puppet regime: Rage and Delight at Somali Peacekeeper Move (Washington Post\/Reuters) Malaysian city to impose fines for &#8216;tight fitting clothes&#8217;: &#8216;I would like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","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\/141","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}