{"id":22,"date":"2006-08-01T12:34:30","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T17:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=22"},"modified":"2018-02-28T14:35:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T19:35:18","slug":"news-and-analysis-updates-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcShariah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 laws in Aceh aimed at curbing gambling, alcohol, and gender mixing, begs the question \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why have they not introduced the Shariah laws on corruption? Stealing in Islam is a bigger sin than these small sins\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/08\/01\/world\/asia\/01indo.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Indonesian Province Embraces Islamic Law\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (NY Times)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Muslims sue government alleging discriminatory in lengthy delays in receiving citizenship:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/local\/la-me-aclu1aug01,1,696655.story\">ACLU, Muslim Group Demand End to Citizenship Delays (LA Times)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US Diplomacy in the Middle East: &#8220;power is not the same thing as influence&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/la-fg-usmideast1aug01,1,5058144.story\">On Cease-Fire, U.S. Diplomacy Again Takes a Go-It-Alone Path (LA Times)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite announced suspension of air strikes, Israel continues to hit targets across Lebanon as ground forces expands invasion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/5233842.stm\">Israel Steps Up Ground Offensive (BBC News)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US will no longer able to use UK civilian airports to ship bombs to Israel, but will be able to use UK military bases<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/politics\/5235192.stm\">Airport Curb on US &#039;Bomb Flights&#039; (BBC News)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>UN resolution demands Iran \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcsuspend uranium enrichment and open its nuclear programme to international inspections\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 by August 31st or else Iran will face &#8220;appropriate measures&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/5232288.stm\">UN Issues Iran Nuclear Deadline (BBC News)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Women and children defy restrictions on demonstrations to march across Muslim world in protest of killings in Qana, Lebanon:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/5232114.stm\">Muslims Protest over Qana Deaths (BBC News)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcShariah\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 laws in Aceh aimed at curbing gambling, alcohol, and gender mixing, begs the question \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why have they not introduced the Shariah laws on corruption? Stealing in Islam is a bigger sin than these small sins\u00e2\u20ac\u009d: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Indonesian Province Embraces Islamic Law\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (NY Times) Muslims sue government alleging discriminatory in lengthy delays in receiving citizenship: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","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\/22","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=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18260,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/18260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}