{"id":296,"date":"2007-05-09T11:03:25","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T16:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=296"},"modified":"2007-05-09T11:03:25","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T16:03:25","slug":"news-and-analysis-5907","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (5\/9\/07)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Secularists\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 real fears of a growing public manifestation of Islam in Turkey are at the local level, not the national level: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2007\/0509\/p06s01-woeu.htm\"><font size=\"2\">On Turkish Streets, Local Battles Over Islam&#8217;s Role<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Christian Science Monitor)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Young democracy activists from American and Egypt agree on little from the public role of Islam to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2007\/0509\/p05s01-wome.htm\"><font size=\"2\">Young Americans and Egyptians Talk, but Don&#8217;t See Eye to Eye<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Christian Science Monitor)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Iran shoots itself in the foot, indefinitely detaining Iranian-American academic who brought in other experts favoring diplomacy over military muscle: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/05\/08\/AR2007050801276_pf.html\"><font size=\"2\">Tehran Jails Iranian American Scholar After Long House Arrest<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Washington Post)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">While the US apologizes to families of 69 Afghans killed or wounded in March incident, 21 other Afghan civilians die in air strike from American-led NATO forces: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/05\/08\/AR2007050801360_pf.html\"><font size=\"2\">69 Afghans&#8217; Families Get a U.S. Apology<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (Washington Post)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/6637957.stm\"><font size=\"2\">Air Raid &#8216;Kills Afghan Civilians&#8217;<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (BBC News)  <\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><font size=\"2\">Living in the midst of a lack of security and foreign military occupation from Ethiopian troops, Somalis are further angered by government soldiers confiscating and burning face veils worn by women: <\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/6638841.stm\"><font size=\"2\">Anger at Somali Face Veil Burning<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> (BBC News)<\/font><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secularists\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 real fears of a growing public manifestation of Islam in Turkey are at the local level, not the national level: On Turkish Streets, Local Battles Over Islam&#8217;s Role (Christian Science Monitor) Young democracy activists from American and Egypt agree on little from the public role of Islam to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: Young Americans and [&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-296","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\/296","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=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}