{"id":4307,"date":"2011-01-31T17:27:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T22:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=4307"},"modified":"2011-01-31T17:27:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T22:27:56","slug":"news-and-analysis-13111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=4307","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (1\/31\/11)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The military command, which may be keener to preserve a 60-year-old system of army-backed government than to prolong the personal rule of the 82-year-old Mubarak, issued a statement on Monday calling protesters&#8217; demands &#8216;legitimate'&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/01\/31\/us-egypt-idUSTRE70O3UW20110131?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=topNews&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29\">Army Endorses Egyptians&#8217; Right to Protest<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mohamed Nimmer offderes advice to Western leaders on how to avoid a repeat of past mistakes the West has made in the face of Muslim resistance to its home-grown despots:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=4303\">Decision Making at a Crossroads of History: The Test to Western Leaders<\/a> (Minaret of Freedom Institute)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To emphasize that it is not the leader of the current protests, the Muslim Brotherhood took &#8220;a back seat&#8221; at the funeral of its first martyr of the current unrest &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2011\/01\/30\/AR2011013003308.html\">Muslim Brotherhood Says It Is Only a Minor player in Egyptian Protests<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; yet, &#8220;Mubarak&#8217;s lie that &#8230; even  the slightest weakening of his oppressive, authoritarian regime would  result in the&#8221; Talibanization of Egypt is now &#8220;being peddled to Americans by people like Mike Huckabee and Rick  Santorum, two men whose views on the role of religion and politics are  almost identical to those of the Muslim Brotherhood:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/onfaith.washingtonpost.com\/onfaith\/panelists\/reza_aslan\/2011\/01\/religion_politics_and_american_hypocrisy_on_egypt.html?hpid=talkbox1\">Do Egyptians Want Both Democracy and a Role for Religion in Their Government?<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Et tu,<\/em> Sudan?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-12324646\">Sudan Protestor &#8216;Dies After Police Assault&#8217; in Khartoum<\/a> (BBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both &#8220;Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad &#8230; had a great impact on Gandhi&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/Commentary\/Global-Viewpoint\/2011\/0131\/Could-uprisings-in-Egypt-and-the-Arab-world-produce-a-Muslim-Gandhi?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feeds%2Fcsm+%28Christian+Science+Monitor+|+All+Stories%29\">Could Uprisings in Egypt and the Arab World Produce a &#8216;Muslim Gandhi&#8217;?<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The military command, which may be keener to preserve a 60-year-old system of army-backed government than to prolong the personal rule of the 82-year-old Mubarak, issued a statement on Monday calling protesters&#8217; demands &#8216;legitimate&#8217;&#8221;: Army Endorses Egyptians&#8217; Right to Protest (Reuters) Mohamed Nimmer offderes advice to Western leaders on how to avoid a repeat of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4307","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\/4307","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4307"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4310,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4307\/revisions\/4310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}