{"id":5803,"date":"2011-11-29T14:48:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T19:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=5803"},"modified":"2011-11-29T14:49:30","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T19:49:30","slug":"news-and-analysis-112911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=5803","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (11\/29\/11)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Seeing the trees: a close-up look at the voting in Egypt; a man votes for the first time because his son was killed in Tahrir Square and his wife refuses to vote for the same reason:<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/egyptian-man-casts-ballot-in-sons-memory\/2011\/11\/28\/gIQAYdhu6N_story.html\">One Egyptian Voter Cast a Ballot in Honor of His Son<\/a> (Washington Post with Foreign Policy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>The community service element of Islam fuels the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s advantage at the polls. &#8220;Some of the villages don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even have sewage facilities. The education level is low. Water quality is weak. The Brotherhood has promised things, and in the past they have done them\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &#8212; Shabban Abdel Reza, an Egyptian postal worker:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/fd1fa732-19d5-11e1-9888-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1f7CZRrJ3\">Rural Voters Feel Pull of Political Islam<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Foreign Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>While the Prime Minister of Kuwait resigned on Monday after\u00c2\u00a0protesters and some deputies forced their way into parliament&#8217;s chambers, demanding that the prime minister quit earlier this month&#8230;<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/af.reuters.com\/article\/energyOilNews\/idAFL5E7MT27J20111129\">Kuwait Opposition Demands Protesters&#8217; Release<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>&#8230; the government in Bahrain remains in power even after an independent investigation, ordered by the king, urged his government to resign:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/News\/Middle-East\/2011\/Nov-29\/155525-bahrains-opposition-calls-on-government-to-resign.ashx#axzz1f7QxjPqs\">Bahrain&#8217;s Opposition Calls on Government to Resign<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Daily Star)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to impose anything on the people,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says\u00c2\u00a0Mohammad Shaqfah, the exiled leader of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood. &#8220;[We have] always asked for freedom and democracy&#8230;. We will not replace one dictatorship with another. We are against dictatorships\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-11-28\/syria-s-muslim-brotherhood-favors-turkish-model-over-iran-s-leader-says.html\">Syria\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Muslim Brotherhood Favors Turkey Model Over Iran in Plan for Power<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Bloomberg)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>In &#8220;in scenes reminiscent of the seizing of the U.S. Embassy compound in 1979 &#8230; [p]rotesters called for the closure of the embassy calling it a &#8216;spy den'&#8221; as some carried &#8220;photographs of nuclear scientist Majid Shahriari, who was killed last year in an attack that Iran blamed on Israeli and British spy services&#8221;:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle-east\/hard-line-iranian-students-storm-british-embassy-in-tehran-amid-rising-diplomatic-tensions\/2011\/11\/29\/gIQANjfK8N_story.html\">Iranian Mobs Storm British Embassy, Ambassador Compound in Tehran amid Rising Tensions<\/a> (AP \/ Washington Post with Foreign Policy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>&#8220;Islamic scholars [met in Pashawar, Pakistan,] on Monday [and] urged the followers of various sects to end their misunderstandings and get united to thwart the enemy`s anti-peace designs&#8221; and ensure the development of the Muslim Ummah:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawn.com\/2011\/11\/29\/muslim-unity-must-to-thwart-enemy-designs.html\">Muslim Unity Must to Thwart Enemy Designs<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(DAWN)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The &#8220;face of political Islam in this fledgling democracy is a 47-year-old pharmaceutical executive who favors tailored suits and stiletto heels,&#8221; a &#8220;mother of two [who] &#8230; felt compelled to emerge as a spokeswoman to cut down fears that Ennahda would curb women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rights or mix conservative religion and politics&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/on-faith\/tunisia-a-test-for-what-moderate-islam-looks-like\/2011\/11\/28\/gIQAz3Op6N_story.html\">Tunisia a Test for What \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcModerate\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Islam Looks Like<\/a> (AP \/ Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Taysir Al-Khatib, president of the Islamic society of Vermont in Colchester, questioned \u00c2\u00a0the notion that some who wanted to observe Ramadan were looking for special favors. fasting throughout the day for Ramadan is no easy thing, he noted:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.burlingtonfreepress.com\/article\/20111128\/NEWS03\/111280303\/Inmates\">Inmates, Vermont Prisons in Conflict over Muslim Prayer Services<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Burlington Free Press)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Growing at about 25% a year, this secular though predominantly Muslim country&#8217;s economy has transitioned from its post-Soviet background to a healthy market economy today, in spite of the challenges of discord in the region which has resulted in about 15% of its population being refugees and displaced people&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/azeem-ibrahim\/azerbaijans-innovative-so_b_1117462.html\">Azerbaijan&#8217;s Innovative Solution to Global Unemployed Muslim Youth<\/a> (Huffiington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing the trees: a close-up look at the voting in Egypt; 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