{"id":189,"date":"2007-01-22T11:05:28","date_gmt":"2007-01-22T16:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=189"},"modified":"2007-01-22T11:06:43","modified_gmt":"2007-01-22T16:06:43","slug":"news-and-analysis-12207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (1\/22\/07)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8220;We have to know the real Sharia; we have to be able to point to passages in the holy Koran and say, &#8216;Here, read this&#8230;. In Islamic history, men have been the boss. They want to be the boss forever\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6but that is not Islam; that is cultural tradition.&#8221;&#8211;Rahala Salim<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/front\/la-fg-women21jan21,1,5136358,print.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage\">Afghan      Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Quiet Revolution Hangs by a Thread<\/a> (Los Angeles Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In order to tackle unemployment and stimulate private industry, the Libyan government embarks on an ambitious economic reform plan:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/E59A18B6-1972-4321-81B6-868C2C3BA2ED.htm\">Libya to Lay Off 400,000 Workers<\/a>      (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Sectarian bickering rears its ugly head at Muslim ecumenical conference in Qatar:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.islamonline.net\/servlet\/Satellite?c=Article_C&#038;cid=1168265754417&#038;pagename=Zone-English-News\/NWELayout\">End      Shiite Proselytizing: Qaradawi<\/a> (IslamOnline)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Welcome to the newest form of demonization and racism \u00e2\u20ac\u201c accusing a politician of having attended a Muslim school:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/01\/21\/AR2007012101161_pf.html\">Campaign      Allegation a Source of Vexation<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Exhibit A in why foreign interventionism impedes democratization and liberalization:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/01\/21\/AR2007012101282_pf.html\">War&#8217;s      Arab Supporters Bitter Over Its Results<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We have to know the real Sharia; we have to be able to point to passages in the holy Koran and say, &#8216;Here, read this&#8230;. In Islamic history, men have been the boss. They want to be the boss forever\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6but that is not Islam; that is cultural tradition.&#8221;&#8211;Rahala Salim Afghan Women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Quiet Revolution Hangs by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","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\/189","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}