{"id":159,"date":"2006-12-27T13:03:52","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T18:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=159"},"modified":"2007-01-08T11:37:38","modified_gmt":"2007-01-08T16:37:38","slug":"news-and-analysis-122706","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (12\/27\/06)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Another failed US foreign policy leads to another war:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/12\/26\/AR2006122600285.html\">Ethiopians Closing In On Capital of Somalia<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Muslims in Bulgaria worry about joining EU: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153&#8221;We are looking forward to join because no one can have too much democracy and freedom &#8230; but we are worried how we will be treated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/12\/26\/AR2006122600797.html\">Bulgarian Muslims Wonder What EU Entry Holds<\/a> (Reuters\/Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">No democracy after death of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153president-for-life,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d but US, EU, and Russia stay silent as they compete for strategic interests in the Turkmenistan:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/12\/26\/AR2006122600831.html\">Turkmenistan Council Weighs in on Succession<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Arabic ad campaign in Richmond exposes fears:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/12\/26\/us\/26arabic.html\">An Anti-Bias Campaign Is Leaving Some Virginians Unsettled<\/a> (AP\/NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;Israel must choose between peace and settlements because there is no peace with settlements&#8221;<span style=\"font-size: 12pt\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/3E734A78-C7D7-4E23-92EB-3734475BB66E.htm\">New Settlement for West Bank Agreed<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Spanish Muslims ask Pope to create a space for Muslim prayer in Cordoba\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Cathedral, which was originally built as a mosque<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/500C29E7-2234-4ED9-BA97-C15D29454392.htm\">Muslims Ask to Worship at Cordoba<span style=\"color: windowtext; text-decoration: none\" \/><\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another failed US foreign policy leads to another war: Ethiopians Closing In On Capital of Somalia (Washington Post) Muslims in Bulgaria worry about joining EU: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153&#8221;We are looking forward to join because no one can have too much democracy and freedom &#8230; but we are worried how we will be treated.&#8221; Bulgarian Muslims Wonder What [&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-159","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\/159","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=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}