{"id":5700,"date":"2011-11-15T15:48:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T20:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=5700"},"modified":"2011-11-15T15:49:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T20:49:34","slug":"news-and-analysis-111511","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=5700","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (11\/15\/11)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports that FBI statistics found that anti-Muslims hate crimes rose nearly 50 percent in 2010, and Cain refuses to identify the &#8220;Muslim leader&#8221; who warned hm that most Amercian Muslims are extremists:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/mark-potok\/fbi-reports-dramatic-spik_b_1092996.html\">FBI Reports Dramatic Spike in Anti-Muslim Hate Violence<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Huffington Post)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/right-turn\/post\/cains-lapse-into-bigotry-again\/2011\/11\/14\/gIQApQjCLN_blog.html\">Cain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Lapse into Bigotry, Again<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The free market system is similar to the Islamic system,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says\u00c2\u00a0leading member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood and chairman of the Freedom and Justice Party, but he calls for reforms that would insure &#8220;that poor people are sharing in the wealth of society:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.majalla.com\/eng\/2011\/11\/article55227650\">Freedom and Justice<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Majalla)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div>&#8220;Assassinations of nuclear scientists, a sophisticated cyber-attack, and now, last weekend, a mysterious blast at a munitions base that has killed the &#8216;godfather&#8217; of Iran&#8217;s ballistic missile\u00c2\u00a0programmer&#8221;:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-15741989\">Is Iran Already Under Covert Attack?<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(BBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>While it militarily intervened to stop the revolts in Bahrain, the GCC facilitates the ouster of Ali Abdullah Saleh in Yemen:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/terrorism-security\/2011\/1115\/Yemen-s-Saleh-promises-to-step-down-skeptical-West-mulls-sanctions\/%28page%29\/2\">Yemen&#8217;s Saleh Promises to Step Down; Skeptical West Mulls Sanctions<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, president of the International Union of Islamic Scholars, praises the revolutions of the Arab Spring and states &#8220;the epoch of dynasties is over: the examples of the dynasties of Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia, of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, and of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya provide proof of this&#8221;:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onislam.net\/english\/news\/middle-east\/454687-assad-saleh-regimes-to-fall-qaradawi.html\">Assad, Saleh Regimes to Fall: Qaradawi<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(On Islam)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>A convert from Islam to Christianity faces the death penalty for apostasy and a\u00c2\u00a0 Zoroastrian (follower of a religion founded by Zarathustra\u00c2\u00a0 in Iran, where it prospered from 559 BC and 651 AD), says many of his co-coreligionists hide their faith in fear of prosecution:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/articles\/249643\/20111115\/iran-s-religious-persecution-death-knell-zoroastrianism.htm\">Iran\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Religious Persecution: A Death-Knell to Zoroastrianism?<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(International Business Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports that FBI statistics found that anti-Muslims hate crimes rose nearly 50 percent in 2010, and Cain refuses to identify the &#8220;Muslim leader&#8221; who warned hm that most Amercian Muslims are extremists: FBI Reports Dramatic Spike in Anti-Muslim Hate Violence\u00c2\u00a0(Huffington Post) Cain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Lapse into Bigotry, Again (Washington Post) \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The free market system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5700","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\/5700","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5700"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5704,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700\/revisions\/5704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}