{"id":3485,"date":"2010-07-30T11:59:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T16:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2010-07-30T11:59:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-30T16:59:45","slug":"news-and-analysis-73010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=3485","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (7\/30\/10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the time of the prophet, women and men prayed side by side; today, with 66% of American mosques segregating men and women, Islamic feminists work to end institutionalized sexism in Islam &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704682604575369472168848914.html\">Islamic Feminists Storm Some Barricades<\/a> (Wall Street Journal)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; meanwhile, the appointment of two woman judges in Malaysia raises the question, &#8220;why can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t women judges deal with marriage and divorce cases?&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawn.com\/wps\/wcm\/connect\/dawn-content-library\/dawn\/the-newspaper\/editorial\/woman-judges-and-sharia-070\">Woman Judges and Sharia<\/a> (Dawn)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;How does this threaten Christians?&#8217; asked Fatima Abeyd Anyanzwa, an anti-rape activist and mother of six&#8221;, as the groups spar over whether family law should be decentralized, or standard for all Kenyans\u00c2\u00a0irregardless\u00c2\u00a0of faith:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/wire\/sns-ap-af-kenya-muslim-courts,0,3602726.story\">Kenya&#8217;s Christians and Muslims Argue Over Inclusion of Islamic Courts in Draft Constitution<\/a> (Los Angeles Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[A}s a Mormon,\u00c2\u00a0I would be infuriated if a government prohibited my church from building a chapel because of a few violent, misguided Latter-day Saints,&#8221; says BYU student\u00c2\u00a0McKay Coppins &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mormontimes.com\/article\/16171\/McKay-Coppins-Only-Muslims-should-decide-whether-to-build-Ground-Zero-mosque?s_cid=voices&amp;utm_source=voices\">McKay Coppins: Only Muslims Should Decide Whether To Build Ground Zero Mosque<\/a> (Mormon Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; but by Newt &#8220;Gingrich&#8217;s logic, no mosques should be built anywhere in the United States;&#8221; if Saudis are un-American, should Americans follow suite?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/editorials\/la-ed-mosque-20100730,0,334649.story\">Let Religious Freedom Ring<\/a> (Los Angeles Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the time of the prophet, women and men prayed side by side; today, with 66% of American mosques segregating men and women, Islamic feminists work to end institutionalized sexism in Islam &#8230; Islamic Feminists Storm Some Barricades (Wall Street Journal) &#8230; meanwhile, the appointment of two woman judges in Malaysia raises the question, &#8220;why [&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-3485","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\/3485","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=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3492,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions\/3492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}