{"id":281,"date":"2007-04-22T19:22:01","date_gmt":"2007-04-23T00:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=281"},"modified":"2007-04-22T19:38:03","modified_gmt":"2007-04-23T00:38:03","slug":"news-and-analysis-421-2207","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (4\/21-22\/07)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">While lead Presidential candidates and Nigeria\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s head monitoring organization call for new elections, the apathetic Syrian &#8220;electorate&#8221; openly voice <span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\">openly voice \u00e2\u20ac\u0153their lack of interest in the polls\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/6581993.stm\"><font color=\"#800080\">Nigerian Candidates Reject Poll<\/font><\/a> (BBC News)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/6580517.stm\"><font color=\"#800080\">Syrians Unmoved by Chance to Vote<\/font><\/a> (BBC News)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Prime Minister Maliki and prominent Sunni parliamentarian Adnan Al-Dulaimi reject sectarian wall built by US military occupation forces: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/6582225.stm\"><font color=\"#800080\">Iraqi PM Speaks Out Against Wall<\/font><\/a> (BBC News)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Hamas officially ends its non-military resistance since 2004 after the latest Israeli incursion into the West Bank kills three Palestinians and a prominent Arab-Israeli Knesset member resigns from his political office: <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/22\/AR2007042200522_pf.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">Israeli Soldiers Kill Three Palestinians in West Bank<\/font><\/a> (Washington Post)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">British Muslim argues that the term &#8220;moderate Muslim&#8221; is a redundant and loaded term and opts for &#8220;orthodox Muslim&#8221;:<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\" \/><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in\" type=\"disc\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2007\/0423\/p09s01-coop.htm\"><font color=\"#800080\">Why I Am Not a Moderate Muslim<\/font><\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While lead Presidential candidates and Nigeria\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s head monitoring organization call for new elections, the apathetic Syrian &#8220;electorate&#8221; openly voice openly voice \u00e2\u20ac\u0153their lack of interest in the polls\u00e2\u20ac\u009d: Nigerian Candidates Reject Poll (BBC News) Syrians Unmoved by Chance to Vote (BBC News) Prime Minister Maliki and prominent Sunni parliamentarian Adnan Al-Dulaimi reject sectarian wall built [&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-281","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\/281","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=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}