{"id":645,"date":"2008-04-28T09:22:25","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T14:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=645"},"modified":"2008-04-28T09:22:25","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T14:22:25","slug":"news-and-analysis-42808","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=645","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (4\/28\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Drawing on lessons of ending Nepal&#8217;s civil war, former President Jimmy Carter finds diplomatic engagement with Hamas and Syria will pay greater peace dividends than isolating and economically punishing them:<\/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\/2008\/04\/28\/opinion\/28carter.html\">Pariah      Diplomacy<\/a> (New York Times)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">By finally acknowledging long-ignored trends in Muslim-majority countries and communities, the US begins to gain some strategic leverage over Al-Qaeda:<\/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\/27\/AR2008042701659_pf.html\">U.S.,      Allies See Progress in Selling Al-Qaeda As an Enemy to the Muslim World<\/a>      (Washington Post)<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Big Brother uses its spy powers to violate attorney-client confidentiality and subvert the notion of a fair trial:<\/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\/2008\/04\/28\/us\/28lawyers.html?ei=5090&#038;en=a5fef9b751194e65&#038;ex=1367035200&#038;adxnnl=1&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss&#038;pagewanted=all&#038;adxnnlx=1209388152-SmZI00gScTEl3KRPGPPzzA\">Lawyers      Fear Monitoring in Cases on Terrorism<\/a> (New York Times)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Islamophobic personalities and organizations use guilt by association and fear-tactics to undermine a New York-based Arabic-language school and its principal:<\/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\/2008\/04\/28\/nyregion\/28school.html?_r=1&#038;hp=&#038;oref=slogin&#038;pagewanted=print\">Her      Dream, Branded as a Threat<\/a> (New York Times)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Chinese policies of restricting religious freedom and importing ethnic Han Chinese to change Xinjiang\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ethnic demography have many native Muslim Uighur feeling like they are \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Indians in America\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/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\/0428\/p01s01-woap.htm\">Uighurs Struggle      in a World Reshaped by Chinese Influx<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Developed nations\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 farming subsidies create massive food market distortions, hurting poor countries like Muslim-majority Mauritania:<\/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\/27\/AR2008042702165_pf.html\">Where      Every Meal Is a Sacrifice<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">American Muslims\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 unique social context leads them to interpret and apply Islamic principles in creative new ways, balancing out social desires with a faith-based need for personal modesty:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/0428\/p20s01-woam.htm\">Young American Muslims Pioneer a New Dating Game<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing on lessons of ending Nepal&#8217;s civil war, former President Jimmy Carter finds diplomatic engagement with Hamas and Syria will pay greater peace dividends than isolating and economically punishing them: Pariah Diplomacy (New York Times) By finally acknowledging long-ignored trends in Muslim-majority countries and communities, the US begins to gain some strategic leverage over 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