{"id":646,"date":"2008-04-29T10:03:29","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T15:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=646"},"modified":"2008-04-29T10:03:29","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T15:03:29","slug":"news-and-analysis-42908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=646","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (4\/29\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Once the DoD\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top legal gunslinger, Col. Morris Davis recently testified under oath that the Pentagon and Bush administration seek convictions in its kangaroo courts to score political points, not administer justice:<\/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\/28\/AR2008042802982_pf.html\">From      Chief Prosecutor To Critic at Guantanamo<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Social and economic discrimination of European Muslims lead to a disproportionate incarceration rate in France and other European countries:<\/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\/28\/AR2008042802560_pf.html\">In      France, Prisons Filled With Muslims<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\" \/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Call for religious reformists\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 death by extremist clerics are interpreted by some to signal diminishing influence of hardliners in Saudi Arabia\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/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\/0429\/p01s01-wome.htm\">In Saudi Arabia,      Moderate Article on Islam Draws Death Fatwa<\/a> (Christian Science      Monitor)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6meanwhile members of a violent fringe test Indonesia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s religious tolerance and pluralism by attacking mosques belonging to a heterodox sect of Muslims:<\/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\/28\/AR2008042800620.html\">Indonesians      Torch Muslim Sect&#8217;s Mosque<\/a> (Associated Press\/Washington Post)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Iranian director Nader Talebzadeh\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s flick on the life of Jesus (PBUH) as a fully human prophet, rather than Divine, attempts to initiate more religious dialog:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-jesus29apr29,1,177430.story\">An      Iranian&#8217;s Vision of Jesus&#8217; Life Stirs Debate<\/a> (Los Angeles Times)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">A former TV producer claims network TV&#8217;s bias toward military experts distorted the debate over Iraq and helped push the country into war: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jeff-cohen\/military-propaganda-pushe_b_98925.html\">Military      Propaganda Pushed Me Off TV<\/a> (Huffington Post)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Iraq acknowledges Iranian military aid to militias, but also tells Washington to back down from its belligerent tone toward Tehran and pursue quiet diplomacy instead:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-iraqiran29apr29,1,7831309.story\">Iraq      Jumps Into U.S.-Iran Tussle<\/a> (Los Angeles Times)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">After earlier reports of Taliban and Pakistani government negotiators nearly coming to a deal, Taliban militants pull out of talks, citing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153foreign forces\u00e2\u20ac\u009d undermining peace talks:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wiredispatch.com\/news\/?id=145794\">Pakistani      Taliban Chief Pulls Out of Peace Talks<\/a> (Reuters\/Wiredispatch)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once the DoD\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top legal gunslinger, Col. 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