{"id":294,"date":"2007-05-07T10:16:03","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T15:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=294"},"modified":"2007-05-07T10:16:05","modified_gmt":"2007-05-07T15:16:05","slug":"news-and-analysis-5707","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (5\/7\/07)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">While Fareed Zakaria quotes Abdullah Gul asking if his party&#8217;s harmonization of Turkish law with European standards of human rights is the &#8220;sharia&#8221; feared by the Turkish secularists &#8230;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/18507649\/site\/newsweek\/\"><font size=\"2\">A Quiet Prayer for Democracy<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Washington Post)<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&#8230; Daniel Hummel compares tensions between Secularism and Islam in Turkey with those in Indonesia:<\/font><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\"><font size=\"2\"> \t <\/font><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/detaileditorial.asp?fileid=20070507.F03&#038;irec=2\"><font size=\"2\">Turkey, Indonesia&#8217;s Uneasy Ties with Secularism<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Jakarta Post)<br \/>\n<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"2\">One of the few civic institutions functioning and holding the nation accountable, Afghani media faces severe threats from authoritarian measures of the government and violence from tribal extremists:<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/05\/06\/AR2007050601160_pf.html\"><font size=\"2\">Afghan News Media Find Foes on All Sides<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Washington Post)<br \/>\n<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Pakistan\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Supreme Court suspends politically motivated probe into outspoken former Chief Justice:<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/6632033.stm\"><font size=\"2\">Pakistan Court Halts Judge Probe<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (BBC News)<br \/>\n<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"2\">France\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s newly elected Prime Minister has French Muslim groups worried, calling for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153reassurance\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and policies that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153serve the interests of the whole of French society\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adnki.com\/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politics&#038;loid=8.0.411698816&#038;par=0\"><font size=\"2\">France: Sarkozy Must Reassure Muslims Says Top Islamic Group Chief<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Adnkronos International)<br \/>\n<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Security experts argue why the security and privacy flaws of a national identification card and other post 9\/11 big brother measures need to be debated:<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/National+ID+card+a+disaster+in+the+making\/2010-7348_3-6180835.html?tag=sas.email\"><font size=\"2\">Perspective:  National ID Card a Disaster in the Making<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Cnet News.com)<\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Fareed Zakaria quotes Abdullah Gul asking if his party&#8217;s harmonization of Turkish law with European standards of human rights is the &#8220;sharia&#8221; 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