{"id":3438,"date":"2010-07-22T11:20:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-22T16:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=3438"},"modified":"2010-07-22T11:20:03","modified_gmt":"2010-07-22T16:20:03","slug":"news-and-analysis-72210","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=3438","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (7\/22\/10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;myth that al Qaeda is 100 feet tall has fed dramatic government growth since 9\/11,&#8221; but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/\">Cato Institute<\/a> VP Gene Healy says, &#8220;We&#8217;ve given al Qaeda power over us they don&#8217;t deserve&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/columns\/Clowns-or-killers-in-al-Qaeda-1001756-98783309.html\">Gene Healy: Clowns Or Killers In Al Qaeda<\/a> (Washington Examiner)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; Case in point, after being placed on the no-fly list, Zachary A. Chesser, also known as Abu Talhah Al-Amrikee,\u00c2\u00a0tries twice to travel to Somalia, once with his infant son &#8220;so to look less suspicious&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/07\/21\/zachary-a-chesser-south-p_n_655193.html\">Zachary A. Chesser, &#8216;South Park&#8217; Critic, Faces Unrelated Terror Charges<\/a> (Huffington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Given the fast development of China&#8217;s economy, and as its political status rises, I think Chinese Islam will become more important in the Islamic world,&#8221; says female imam at one of China&#8217;s female-only mosques:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=128628514\">Female Imams Blaze Trail Amid China&#8217;s Muslims<\/a> (NPR)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Council on American-Islamic Relations calls on Electrolux to &#8220;engages with its Muslim workers to devise a solution that meets the legitimate needs and requirements of all parties&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/cair-electrolux-denies-minn-muslims-ramadan-rights-98932949.html\">CAIR: Electrolux Denies Minn. Muslims Ramadan Rights<\/a> (PR Newswire)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Would there &#8220;be the same reaction if a Baptist congregation wanted to build a &#8216;monstrous&#8217; church near the site of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. After all, Timothy McVeigh was a Christian&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer-reporter.com\/or\/editorial\/07-22-2010-MOSQUE-EDITORIAL\">Muslims Easy Target For Some Politicians<\/a> (Observer Reporter)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Technology changes the way people relate to each other, but it doesn&#8217;t really change the way that people relate to God. That sort of remains constant&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Technology\/godphones-apps-put-prayer-pocket\/story?id=11200971\">God? There&#8217;s an App for That<\/a> (ABC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;myth that al Qaeda is 100 feet tall has fed dramatic government growth since 9\/11,&#8221; but Cato Institute VP Gene Healy says, &#8220;We&#8217;ve given al Qaeda power over us they don&#8217;t deserve&#8221; &#8230; Gene Healy: Clowns Or Killers In Al Qaeda (Washington Examiner) &#8230; Case in point, after being placed on the no-fly list, [&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-3438","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\/3438","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=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3445,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions\/3445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}