{"id":389,"date":"2007-08-10T15:29:38","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T20:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=389"},"modified":"2007-08-10T15:29:38","modified_gmt":"2007-08-10T20:29:38","slug":"news-and-analysis-81007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=389","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (8\/10\/07)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newsweek correspondent Vivian Salama notes how current security-based racial profiling is mirroring the past and denigrating American principles of liberty, justice and equality:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><a title=\"Track Record Doesn't Inspire Confidence\" href=\"http:\/\/newsweek.washingtonpost.com\/postglobal\/vivian_salama\/2007\/08\/track_record_doesnt_inspire_co.html\"><font color=\"#551a8b\">Track Record Doesn&#8217;t Inspire Confidence<\/font><\/a> (Washington Post)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With Bush&#8217;s surge and ham-fisted diplomacy in Iraq failing, he now seeks the once &#8220;irrelevant&#8221; UN to help broker political deals with Iraq and its neighbors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><a title=\"U.S. Seeks U.N. Help With Talks On Iraq\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/08\/10\/AR2007081000677_pf.html\"><font color=\"#551a8b\">U.S. Seeks U.N. Help With Talks On Iraq<\/font><\/a> (Washington Post)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Government discrimination and incompetence compounded by the flight of Muslim community leaders to Pakistan at the time of partition are cited as factors for the disadvantaged state of India&#8217;s Muslims:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><a title=\"Why do Indian Muslims Lag Behind?\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/6938090.stm\"><font color=\"#551a8b\">Why do Indian Muslims Lag Behind?<\/font><\/a> (BBC News)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After allegation from exiled PM Benazir Bhutto over &#8220;30 million &#8216;missing&#8217; voters&#8221; Pakistan&#8217;s supreme court orders Musharraf to produced a complete list of voters in 30 days:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"sh\"><a title=\"Court Keeps Pressure on Musharraf\" href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/6940406.stm\"><font color=\"#551a8b\">Court Keeps Pressure on Musharraf<\/font><\/a> (BBC News)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Principle of Arabic-school forced to resign after groups pressure and distort the meaning of the word &#8220;Intifada&#8221; written on a t-shirt:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><a title=\"Under Fire, Arabic-Themed School Principal Resigns\" href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2007\/08\/10\/under-fire-arabic-themed-school-principal-resigns\/index.html?hp\"><font color=\"#551a8b\">Under Fire, Arabic-Themed School Principal Resigns<\/font><\/a> (New York Times)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Allegations of more abuse by Saudi Arabia&#8217;s religious police come from Shi&#8217;a pilgrims charging they were being beaten in Mecca &#8220;because of their nationalities and the fact that they were holding Shi&#8217;ite-style prayers&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div><a title=\"Pilgrims Accuse Saudi Religious Police, Want Trial\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2007\/08\/10\/AR2007081000857_pf.html\"><font color=\"#551a8b\">Pilgrims Accuse Saudi Religious Police, Want Trial<\/font><\/a> (Reuters\/Washington Post)<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsweek correspondent Vivian Salama notes how current security-based racial profiling is mirroring the past and denigrating American principles of liberty, justice and equality: Track Record Doesn&#8217;t Inspire Confidence (Washington Post) With Bush&#8217;s surge and ham-fisted diplomacy in Iraq failing, he now seeks the once &#8220;irrelevant&#8221; UN to help broker political deals with Iraq and its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","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\/389","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}