{"id":149,"date":"2006-12-18T13:48:25","date_gmt":"2006-12-18T18:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=149"},"modified":"2006-12-18T13:48:25","modified_gmt":"2006-12-18T18:48:25","slug":"news-and-analysis-121806","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=149","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (12\/18\/06)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;Every time my wife insisted we leave Iraq, I used to tell her to have hope. Then when the first mortar fell near my house I knew that death was knocking at my door.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/12\/18\/AR2006121800106.html\">Mortar Wars Terrorize Weary Baghdad Residents<\/a> (Reuters\/Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Editorial:US financial service company buys port operations in US from Dubai Ports World, &#8220;clos[ing] the chapter on one of the most embarrassing fits of isolationist hysteria in recent U.S. history.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/asection\/la-ed-dubai15dec15,1,7638098.story\">Port Protectionism Doesn&#8217;t Work<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Indonesian woman finds empowerment through reciting the Qur&#8217;an in public:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/la-fg-koran17dec17,1,2209625.story?page=1\">Her Koran recitals Say A Lot <\/a>(LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;You can never have democracy if you can buy justice&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/la-fg-justice18dec18,1,1886655.story?page=1\">In Afghanistan, Money Tips the Scales of Justice<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">EU Report: &#8220;Muslims feel that acceptance by society is increasingly premised on &#8216;assimilation&#8217; and the assumption that they should lose their Muslim identity&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/europe\/6189675.stm\">Muslim Alienation Risk in Europe<\/a> (BBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Days after complaining about US attacks, 30 Iraqi Red Crescent workers were kidnapped from its headquarters by men posing as Interior Ministry&#8217;s special commandos:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/6189751.stm\">Red Crescent Halts Baghdad Work<\/a> (BBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: \"Times New Roman\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Every time my wife insisted we leave Iraq, I used to tell her to have hope. Then when the first mortar fell near my house I knew that death was knocking at my door.&#8221; Mortar Wars Terrorize Weary Baghdad Residents (Reuters\/Washington Post) Editorial:US financial service company buys port operations in US from Dubai Ports World, [&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-149","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\/149","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=149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}