{"id":3408,"date":"2010-07-19T12:50:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T17:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=3408"},"modified":"2010-07-19T12:50:07","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T17:50:07","slug":"news-and-analysis-71910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=3408","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (7\/19\/10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinians married to Israeli Arabs will now have to swear a pledge of\u00c2\u00a0allegiance to a &#8220;Jewish democratic state&#8221; if they wish to live on their spouses&#8217; land:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2010\/07\/20107199346452716.html\">Israeli &#8216;Loyalty Oath&#8217; Approved<\/a> (Al-Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With the wearing of a niqab now a criminal act, the French national motto\u00c2\u00a0<em>l<\/em><em>ibert\u00c3\u00a9<\/em>,\u00c2\u00a0<em>\u00c3\u00a9galit\u00c3\u00a9<\/em>,\u00c2\u00a0<em>fraternit\u00c3\u00a9 <\/em>becomes <strong>even less<\/strong> appropriate &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/thereporters\/gavinhewitt\/2010\/07\/criminalising_women_behind_the.html\">Criminalising Women Behind the Veil<\/a> (BBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; meanwhile, the Syrian regime takes a similar step in prohibiting teachers who wear the niqab from teaching at public schools \u00e2\u20ac\u201d &#8220;the politicisation of what should be a personal issue&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/belief\/2010\/jul\/19\/syria-niqab-ban-islam\">Syria&#8217;s Niqab Ban Is Part Of A Clash Within Islam Itself<\/a> (Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The obstacle to Muslim integration in America is not the Muslim-American community, but the prejudices of Americans of other faiths:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/OPINION\/07\/19\/esposito.muslim.center\/\">Islamaphobia And The Muslim Center At Ground Zero<\/a> (CNN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The complex story of the hip media mogul Saad Mohseni, &#8220;the Rupert Murdoch of Afghanistan,&#8221; backed by USAID funding to change Afghani culture:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/reporting\/2010\/07\/05\/100705fa_fact_auletta\">The Networker<\/a> (New Yorker)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The man in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JaIQHWfj5f4&amp;feature=player_embeddedv\">the video<\/a> betrays himself in his own words as a con artist, and now he is again prime minister of Israel&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/print-edition\/opinion\/tricky-bibi-1.302053\">Tricky Bibi<\/a> (Haaretz)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinians married to Israeli Arabs will now have to swear a pledge of\u00c2\u00a0allegiance to a &#8220;Jewish democratic state&#8221; if they wish to live on their spouses&#8217; land: Israeli &#8216;Loyalty Oath&#8217; Approved (Al-Jazeera) With the wearing of a niqab now a criminal act, the French national motto\u00c2\u00a0libert\u00c3\u00a9,\u00c2\u00a0\u00c3\u00a9galit\u00c3\u00a9,\u00c2\u00a0fraternit\u00c3\u00a9 becomes even less appropriate &#8230; Criminalising Women Behind the [&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-3408","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\/3408","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=3408"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3415,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3408\/revisions\/3415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}