{"id":641,"date":"2008-04-23T10:11:35","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T15:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=641"},"modified":"2008-04-23T10:11:35","modified_gmt":"2008-04-23T15:11:35","slug":"news-and-analysis-42308","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=641","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (4\/23\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Caught between ongoing violence and economic deprivation, many of Iraq\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one million widows fight each day to survive and maintain their families, while Iraqi Christians struggle to maintain their presences within Iraq:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/04\/22\/AR2008042203239_pf.html\">Iraqi      Women Take On Roles Of Dead or Missing Husbands<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\" \/><\/li>\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/04\/21\/AR2008042103143_pf.html\">Iraqi      Christians Struggle With Fear After Slayings<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Former extremists create an organization dedicated to reaching out Muslim youth vulnerable to radical organizations:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/0423\/p01s09-woeu.htm\">British Ex-Jihadis      Form Ranks for Tolerance<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Afghan TV stations remain steadfast in their refusal to ban certain soap operas\u00e2\u20ac\u201dalready heavily edited by the networks\u00e2\u20ac\u201ddespite orders from the government, egged on by religious hardliners:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/aponline\/world\/AP-Afghan-Soap-Saga.html?scp=3&#038;sq=Muslim&#038;st=nyt\">TV      Stations Defy Afghan Government Ban On Indian Soap Operas<\/a> (Associated      Press\/New York Times)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">CATO military analyst David Isenberg debunks recent neo-con attempts to spin latest military report disproving linkages between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #990000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/isenberg04222008.html\">Spinning Saddam&#8217;s      Linkages<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"> (Counterpunch)<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Neo-con group uses fear-based ads to attack civil libertarian politicians for their firm opposition to Bush\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s warrantless wiretapping program:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: black\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/2008\/House_Dems_Ron_Paul_targeted_over_0422.html\">House      Dems, Ron Paul Targeted Over Surveillance Votes<\/a> (Raw Story)<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caught between ongoing violence and economic deprivation, many of Iraq\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one million widows fight each day to survive and maintain their families, while Iraqi Christians struggle to maintain their presences within Iraq: Iraqi Women Take On Roles Of Dead or Missing Husbands (Washington Post) Iraqi Christians Struggle With Fear After Slayings (Washington Post) Former extremists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","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\/641","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}