{"id":3365,"date":"2010-07-12T11:49:27","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T16:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=3365"},"modified":"2010-07-12T11:49:27","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T16:49:27","slug":"news-and-analysis-71210","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=3365","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (7\/12\/10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vwsMJmvS0AY&amp;feature=player_embedded\" target=\"_blank\">New video footage<\/a> of the Israeli\u00c2\u00a0assault on the &#8220;Freedom Flotilla&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0calls into question Israel&#8217;s official statements on the incident and further demonstrates the need for an independent, unbiased investigation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthtellers.org\/alerts\/newcracksinisraelflotillastory.htm\">New Cracks in Israel&#8217;s Flotilla Story<\/a> (NPN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At 6-12 kilometers wide, the Gaza Strip is deprived of 30% of its arable land by an IDF-mandated buffer zone, which can be as wide as 2 kilometers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/video\/middleeast\/2010\/07\/2010711175014804859.html\">Gaza Farmers Risk Being Shot<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;President Barack Obama has argued words matter, and administration officials have said that the use of inflammatory descriptions linking Islam to the terror threat\u00c2\u00a0feed the enemy&#8217;s propaganda and alienate moderate Muslims in the U.S.&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/politics\/wire\/sns-ap-us-terrorism-rhetoric,0,2850747.story\">Critics Argue Against US Move To Drop Talk of Islamic Radicalism<\/a> (Los Angeles Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Campaign Against Political Correctness jousts with a British city-council over sex-education, lunch bags, and swimming lessons, which shows how public education can politicize otherwise resolvable issues:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/education\/educationnews\/7884040\/Council-tells-schools-to-rearrange-exams-and-cancel-swimming-for-Ramadan.html\">Council Tells Schools To Rearrange Exams And Cancel Swimming For Ramadan<\/a> (New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Questions of\u00c2\u00a0 freedom of association vs. fulfillment of contracts appear to be at issue after a hotel cancels Hizb ut-Tahrir&#8217;s reservation; last year, their annual convention was titled &#8220;&#8221;Fall of Capitalism and Rise of Islam&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/chi-ap-il-muslimpoliticalgr,0,3571446.story\">Illinois Hotel Backs Out of Hosting Muslim Group<\/a> (Chicago Tribune)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two centuries after Sir. Richard Burton defended his translation of &#8220;The Thousand and One Nights&#8221; against Victorians in England, a group of Egyptian Islamist lawyers have picked up the banner of the nanny-state:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/16118858\">The Puritans Won&#8217;t Give Up:\u00c2\u00a0A Literary Struggle Between Liberals And Conservatives<\/a> (Economist)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New video footage of the Israeli\u00c2\u00a0assault on the &#8220;Freedom Flotilla&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0calls into question Israel&#8217;s official statements on the incident and further demonstrates the need for an independent, unbiased investigation: New Cracks in Israel&#8217;s Flotilla Story (NPN) At 6-12 kilometers wide, the Gaza Strip is deprived of 30% of its arable land by an IDF-mandated buffer zone, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3365","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\/3365","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\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3365"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3372,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions\/3372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}