{"id":3891,"date":"2010-09-29T13:37:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T18:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=3891"},"modified":"2010-09-29T13:37:52","modified_gmt":"2010-09-29T18:37:52","slug":"news-and-analysis-92910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=3891","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (9\/29\/10)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a 7-6 vote, a Texas body that influences the choice of textbooks around the nation &#8220;managed to undermine Christian-Muslim  relations, hamper religious literacy and impose ignorance on our kids at  a time when they need knowledge to live and work in a competitive and  integrated world&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.musalmantimes.com\/?p=652\">Ignorance, Not Islam, Is The Enemy<\/a> (Musalman Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A conservative Muslim finds Americans can be very accommodating in the workplace if you are respectfully open about your religion:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/muslimmatters.org\/2010\/09\/28\/common-workplace-dilemmas-facing-muslims\/\">Common Workplace Dilemmas Facing Muslims<\/a> (MuslimMatters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;When asked what law prohibited the Muslims from having a burial site on  their own land, [the mayor&#8217;s] response was: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what the exact law is'&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a id=\"title_permalink\" title=\"Permalink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/kamran-pasha\/digging-up-muslim-graves_b_740881.html\">Digging Up Muslim Graves<\/a> (Huffington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;We have as Americans a right to be here, and we also have a  responsibility to build bridges of reconciliation with the families of  those who died on 11 September&#8221; &#8212; Sharif El-Gamal, developer of Park51:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-11434953\">Muslim Developer Defends NY Ground Zero Plan<\/a> (BBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A clash between the West and the Muslim world serves &#8220;no one except extremists and those  who hold perverted ideas on both sides&#8221; &#8212; Egypt&#8217;s Foreign Minister  Ahmed Abul Gheit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/At-world-stage-nations-warn-West-against-Islamophobia\/Article1-605942.aspx\">At World Stage, Nations Warn West Against &#8216;Islamophobia&#8217;<\/a> (Hindustan Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a 7-6 vote, a Texas body that influences the choice of textbooks around the nation &#8220;managed to undermine Christian-Muslim relations, hamper religious literacy and impose ignorance on our kids at a time when they need knowledge to live and work in a competitive and integrated world&#8221;: Ignorance, Not Islam, Is The Enemy (Musalman Times) [&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-3891","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\/3891","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=3891"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3895,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3891\/revisions\/3895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}