{"id":278,"date":"2007-04-19T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T18:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=278"},"modified":"2007-04-19T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-19T18:55:00","slug":"news-and-analysis-041907","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=278","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (04\/19\/07)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Corruption plagues upcoming presidential election in Nigeria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/19\/AR2007041901018.html\">Nigeria Holds Key Poll But Can it Be Democratic?<\/a> (Reuters\/Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Jury selection reveals hidden biases: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153asked whether she considered Muslims disproportionately prone to violence. She replied: &#8220;Before Sept. 11, I would have said no. But from what I&#8217;ve heard since then on the news, I&#8217;d say yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/nation\/la-na-padilla18apr18,1,697054.story\">Potential Padilla Jurors Admit Bias (<\/a>LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">State-run TV ignores court orders and bans anchorwomen wearing the veil:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/6565145.stm\">Egypt Anchorwomen Battle for Hijab<\/a> (BBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">UK government stops using the phrase \u00e2\u20ac\u0153war on terror\u00e2\u20ac\u009d recognizing the politics and failures in the term:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/politics\/6562709.stm\">Declining Use of &#8216;War on Terror&#8217;<\/a> (BBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Accused politicians should be allowed to have their day in court rather than be unjustly exiled:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/NR\/exeres\/FA1F39D2-055E-4F6B-98DC-0CB65DC743CB.htm\">Bangladesh Exiles Former PM<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corruption plagues upcoming presidential election in Nigeria: Nigeria Holds Key Poll But Can it Be Democratic? (Reuters\/Washington Post) Jury selection reveals hidden biases: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153asked whether she considered Muslims disproportionately prone to violence. She replied: &#8220;Before Sept. 11, I would have said no. But from what I&#8217;ve heard since then on the news, I&#8217;d say yes.&#8221; [&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-278","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\/278","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=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}