{"id":3375,"date":"2010-07-13T14:31:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T19:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=3375"},"modified":"2010-07-13T14:35:23","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T19:35:23","slug":"news-and-analysis-71310","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=3375","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (7\/13\/10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>France&#8217;s National Assembly moves to restrict Muslim women&#8217;s freedom in a misguided attempt to protect women&#8217;s rights; ban may be ruled unconstitutional by high court:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/07\/13\/AR2010071301103.html\">French Parliament Approves Ban On Face Veils<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Israeli NGO Ir Amim releases a study showing why Palestinians are  being squeezed out of Jerusalem: 80% of the city is zoned for Jews-only  use:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/2010\/07\/12\/why-palestinians-cant-buy-land\/\">Why  Palestinians Can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t Buy Land<\/a> (Fox News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The same group denied a reservation for an annual conference in an Illinois hotel earlier this week reports supporters detained in Palestine after a commemoration event for the 89th anniversary of the fall of the Caliphate:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maannews.net\/eng\/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=298860\">Hizb Ut-Tahrir: PA Security Detained 17 Supporters<\/a> (Ma&#8217;an News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Calling into question whether or not the Obama administration does have improving relations with Muslim-majority countries as a top priority, as Obama claimed in his speech in Cairo in June, 2009:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/07\/12\/AR2010071205340.html\">White House Criticizes NASA Chief for Making Remarks On Muslim Outreach<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Washington Institute for Near East Policy<\/em> fellow David Schenker thinks it &#8220;ironic&#8221; that Fadlallah, who was labeled both a terrorist and a moderate,\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;stood as the last bulwark against near total Iranian hegemony in Lebanon&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Commentary\/Opinion\/2010\/0709\/Passing-of-Shiite-cleric-Fadlallah-spells-trouble-for-Lebanon\">Passing of Shiite Cleric Fadlallah Spells Trouble for Lebanon<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France&#8217;s National Assembly moves to restrict Muslim women&#8217;s freedom in a misguided attempt to protect women&#8217;s rights; ban may be ruled unconstitutional by high court: French Parliament Approves Ban On Face Veils (Washington Post) Israeli NGO Ir Amim releases a study showing why Palestinians are being squeezed out of Jerusalem: 80% of the city is [&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-3375","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\/3375","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=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3378,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions\/3378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}