{"id":3353,"date":"2010-07-08T11:48:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-08T16:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=3353"},"modified":"2010-07-08T11:48:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-08T16:48:36","slug":"news-and-analysis-7810","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=3353","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (7\/8\/10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like &#8220;a cruel joke,&#8221; Israel&#8217;s attempt &#8220;to assuage the international community by &#8216;easing&#8217; the siege &#8230; allows Israeli goods to be sold inside Gaza; while blockading goods made in Gaza. This is one more step in killing an economy&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.aljazeera.net\/middle-east\/2010\/07\/03\/how-kill-economy\">How to Kill an Economy<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>CNN, &#8220;which has employed a former AIPAC\u00c2\u00a0official, Wolf Blitzer, as its primary news  anchor for the last 15 years&#8221; claims &#8220;that Nasr&#8217;s &#8216;credibility&#8217; had been &#8216;compromised'&#8221; by her &#8220;respect&#8221; for Fadalallah&#8217;s pro-women fatwas:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/opinion\/glenn_greenwald\/2010\/07\/08\/media\/index.html\">Octavia Nasr&#8217;s Firing and What the Liberal Media Allows<\/a> (Salom.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Former Congressman gets fifteen years and a $500,000 fine for obstruction of justice and regulatory violation in a case concerning a Muslim charity he sought to have &#8220;removed from a list of organizations suspected of financing terrorism&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/07\/07\/AR2010070705205.html\">Siljander Pleads Guilty in Islamic American Relief Agency Lobbying Case<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The government appears to be unable \u00e2\u20ac\u201c or in some cases unwilling \u00e2\u20ac\u201c to monitor or block sectarian content on the web.&#8221; &#8212; Naguibullah Malik, federal information technology secretary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Asia-South-Central\/2010\/0708\/Newest-friends-on-Facebook-Pakistan-militants.\">Newest Friends on Facebook? Pakistan Militant<\/a>s (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Wednesday&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0decision by Tomasz Calkiewicz, the Polish judge, to extradite Brodsky over forgery allegations would mean that Germany can only charge him with that crime, which carries a sentence of three years&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/europe\/2010\/07\/20107720713228273.html\">Poland Orders &#8216;Mossad&#8217; Extradition<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Tariq Ramadan whose ban from the US was lifted earlier this year &#8230; called on the Muslims to be proactive and engaged with wider civil society while holding on to their faith&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twocircles.net\/2010jul08\/isna_convention_sends_message_compassion_mercy.html\">ISNA Convention Sends Message of Compassion &amp; Mercy<\/a> (Two Circles)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like &#8220;a cruel joke,&#8221; Israel&#8217;s attempt &#8220;to assuage the international community by &#8216;easing&#8217; the siege &#8230; allows Israeli goods to be sold inside Gaza; while blockading goods made in Gaza. 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