{"id":651,"date":"2008-05-05T09:50:19","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T14:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=651"},"modified":"2008-05-05T09:50:19","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T14:50:19","slug":"news-and-analysis-5508","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (5\/5\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Analysts say Kuwait\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mixture of non-party democracy and persistent monarchical power have led to political and economic stagnation:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"manchettebig2\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/article.asp?edition_id=10&#038;categ_id=2&#038;article_id=91702\">Critics      Blame Kuwait&#8217;s &#8216;Half Democracy&#8217; for Political Deadlocks<\/a> (AFP\/Daily      Star Lebanon)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">ABA gives award for Abdurrahman al-Lahem for his legal defense of human rights in Saudi Arabia:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"manchettebig2\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/article.asp?edition_id=10&#038;categ_id=2&#038;article_id=91707\">American      Bar Association Honors Saudi Dissident<\/a> (AFP\/Daily Star Lebanon)<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Baghdad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s contradictory messages on Iranian influence in Iraq are shaped by the costs and benefits of attempting to simultaneously maintaining good relations with Tehran and Washington:<\/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-iraq5-2008may05,0,1939908,print.story\">Iraq      Sends Mixed Message On Iran, Weapons<\/a> (Los Angeles Times)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Rumors swirl in Turkish media of possible plans by AKP members to form a new party in case the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153judicial coup\u00e2\u20ac\u009d succeeds:<\/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\/05\/05\/AR2008050500496_pf.html\">Turkish      PM&#8217;s Office Denies Reports On Party Plan<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/05\/05\/AR2008050500496_pf.html\">s<\/a>      (Reuters\/Washington Post)<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Global food crisis rocks war-torn Somalia, leading to unrest in the capital: <\/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\/05\/05\/AR2008050500403.html\">Tens      of Thousands Riot in Somalia Over Rising Food Prices<\/a> (Associated      Press\/Washington Post)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">Indonesian Muslim scholars assert that media outlets need to focus less on radicals and more on mainstream religious figures promoting compatibility between Islam and democracy\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.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2008\/03\/04\/media-should-promote-islam-and-democracy-discussion.html\">Media      Should Promote Islam and Democracy: Discussion<\/a> (Jakarta Post)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6however that does not remove the obligation of governments and civil society to protect people&#8217;s human rights, including religious freedom:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2008\/05\/05\/religious-strife-erodes-ri-image-say-experts.html\">Religious      Strife Erodes RI Image, Say Experts<\/a> (Jakarta Post)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts say Kuwait\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mixture of non-party democracy and persistent monarchical power have led to political and economic stagnation: Critics Blame Kuwait&#8217;s &#8216;Half Democracy&#8217; for Political Deadlocks (AFP\/Daily Star Lebanon) ABA gives award for Abdurrahman al-Lahem for his legal defense of human rights in Saudi Arabia: American Bar Association Honors Saudi Dissident (AFP\/Daily Star Lebanon) Baghdad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s [&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-651","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\/651","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=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}