{"id":286,"date":"2007-04-27T22:55:50","date_gmt":"2007-04-28T03:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=286"},"modified":"2007-04-27T22:55:50","modified_gmt":"2007-04-28T03:55:50","slug":"news-and-analysis-4272007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (4\/27\/2007)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Parliament most likely to vote in first Islamic-oriented president since the founding of the secular republic:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/world\/AP-Turkey-Presidency.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">Turkish Parliament to Select President <\/font><\/a>(Associated Press)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Saudi Arabia completes massive preemptory crackdown on alleged terrorists plotting attacks on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcpublic figures, oil facilities, refineries &#8230; and military zones\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/27\/AR2007042700649_pf.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">Saudis Arrest 172 in Alleged Terror Plot<\/font><\/a> (Associated Press)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>High profile US aid to support democracy and human rights activists have created fear in the Iranian government, prompting massive crackdown on the people meant to be helped:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/04\/27\/AR2007042701668_pf.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">U.S. Aid Compromising Iranian Rights Activists<\/font><\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Though some of Ahmadinejad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rhetoric shows that sometimes they live a fine line between faith and politics, Iran&#8217;s Jewish community\u00c2\u00a0still find themselves living in peaceful coexistence with their Muslim neighbors and facing many similar problems:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2007\/0427\/p01s03-wome.htm\"><font color=\"#800080\">In Ahmadinejad&#8217;s Iran, Jews Still Find a Space<\/font><\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With a 25% drop in executions, significant changes have been made in Pakistan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s penal system, however many more reforms are needed as it still has the most number of prisoners facing execution in the world:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/6597507.stm\"><font color=\"#800080\">Pakistan &#8216;Tops Death Row League&#8217; <\/font><\/a>(BBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0Seeing their rising market potential, advertisers begin courting American-Muslims:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/04\/28\/business\/28muslim.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin&#038;pagewanted=print\"><font color=\"#800080\">Rewriting the Ad Rules for Muslim-Americans<\/font><\/a> (New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish Parliament most likely to vote in first Islamic-oriented president since the founding of the secular republic: Turkish Parliament to Select President (Associated Press) Saudi Arabia completes massive preemptory crackdown on alleged terrorists plotting attacks on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcpublic figures, oil facilities, refineries &#8230; and military zones\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d: Saudis Arrest 172 in Alleged Terror Plot (Associated Press) High [&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-286","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\/286","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=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}