{"id":5914,"date":"2011-12-15T14:03:37","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T19:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=5914"},"modified":"2011-12-15T14:03:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T19:03:37","slug":"news-and-analysis-121511","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=5914","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (12\/15\/11)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zionist extremists torch a Jerusalem mosque and scrawl grafitti like &#8221; <span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">A good Arab is a dead Arab<\/span>,&#8221; as denunciations of the closure of an access ramp to the al-Aqsa mosque compound an <span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153&#8217;attack&#8217; on efforts to revive the peace talks&#8221; and a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153&#8217;declaration of religious war&#8217; on Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem&#8221; is followed by a reversal of the closure:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.turkishweekly.net\/news\/128102\/israel-reopens-ramp-after-muslim-anger.html\">Israel Reopens Ramp After Muslim Anger<\/a> (Turkish Weekly)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Panetta &#8220;said the war was worth the enormous price in blood and treasure \u00e2\u20ac\u201c about $750bn (\u00c2\u00a3484bn), 4,500 dead, 32,000 wounded, and that&#8217;s just on the American side. Iraqi casualties are far higher, with civilian deaths well over 100,000, many more maimed and up to several million people displaced &#8230;,&#8221; so Iraqis are understandably more ambivalent:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/dec\/15\/us-exit-iraq-withdrawal-ambivalence\">US Exit from Iraq: &#8216;This Is Not a Withdrawal, This Is an Act on a Stage&#8217;<\/a> (Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Panetta insists &#8220;the operations were part of U.S. efforts to defend both Afghanistan and the U.S. homeland and involve &#8216;important intelligence operations which we will continue to pursue,&#8217; but Karzai says that &#8220;Afghanistan doesn&#8217;t want to be involved in any &#8220;adversarial relations&#8221; between the U.S. and Iran&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/iran-demands-afghanistan-cancel-us-drone-flights-15162235#.TuoyRtXwPcs\">Iran Demands Afghanistan Block US Drone Flights<\/a> (AP \/ abc News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Human Rights Watch calls for referral to the international criminal court for abuses such as &#8216;shoot to kill&#8217; orders &#8220;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/dec\/15\/syrian-commanders-named-shamed\">Syrian Commanders to Be Named and Shamed by Human Rights Group<\/a> (Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Using the slogan \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDilute religious consciousness, advocate a civilized healthy life style,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the notice said the campaign\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s objective was \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to completely get rid of the abnormal phenomenon in the entire community of minority ethnic women and youth&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/neighborhood-in-heavily-muslim-china-region-tries-to-ban-wearing-veils-long-beards\/2011\/12\/15\/gIQAnMWhvO_story.html\">Neighborhood in Heavily Muslim China Region Tries to Ban Wearing Veils, Long Beards<\/a> (Washington Post with Foreign Policy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Protesters shouted <em>takbiir<\/em>, not <em>takfiir<\/em>; still, many Muslims see Shariah4Belgium&#8217;s interruption of Irshad Manji&#8217;s lecture on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irshadmanji.com\/Buy-Allah-Liberty-And-Love\" target=\"_blank\">Allah, Liberty and Love \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Courage to Reconcile Faith and Freedom<\/a><\/em> book tour &#8220;as intimidating and aggressive. Others think that the tactic goes against Islam; [not only] the tactic of intimidating but also throwing food (eggs)&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/religionresearch.org\/martijn\/2011\/12\/12\/manji-dibi-and-s4hs4b-not-the-back-of-the-bus\/\">Manji, Dibi and S4H\/S4B \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Not the Back of the Bus\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;If the Taliban opened an office, it would be seen as a willingness to talk peace and signal their intention to try to find a nonviolent solution to an insurgency that has cost the lives of thousands. Karzai&#8217;s comments came one day after an Indian newspaper reported that plans were being finalized for a Taliban office in the Gulf state of Qatar&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyjournal.net\/view\/story\/4780aff4f0014eb19c9d62504d4a1f75\/AS--Afghanistan\/\">Karzai: Taliban Office Should Be in Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia or Another Muslim Nation<\/a> (AP\/ Daily Journal)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zionist extremists torch a Jerusalem mosque and scrawl grafitti like &#8221; A good Arab is a dead Arab,&#8221; as denunciations of the closure of an access ramp to the al-Aqsa mosque compound an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153&#8217;attack&#8217; on efforts to revive the peace talks&#8221; and a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153&#8217;declaration of religious war&#8217; on Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem&#8221; is followed [&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-5914","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\/5914","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=5914"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5926,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5914\/revisions\/5926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}