{"id":655,"date":"2008-05-08T10:20:07","date_gmt":"2008-05-08T15:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=655"},"modified":"2008-05-08T10:20:07","modified_gmt":"2008-05-08T15:20:07","slug":"news-and-analysis-5808","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=655","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (5\/8\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former defense lawyer for ex-Gitmo prisoner alleges that the lack of a fair legal hearing and exposure to torture led to Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi to terrorism:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/05\/07\/AR2008050703456_pf.html\">Ex-Guantanamo Detainee Joined Iraq Suicide Attack<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Landmark ruling\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in Malaysia upholds ethnic Chinese woman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Qur\u00e2\u20ac\u2122anic and Prophetic rights to leave Islam:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/7389874.stm\">Malaysian Woman Can Leave Islam<\/a> (BBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Using Bill Cosby as their template, American Muslim filmmakers use the Internet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s power to depict themselves as ordinary while humorously identifying with other Muslims:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/08\/us\/08video.html?_r=1&#038;adxnnl=1&#038;oref=slogin&#038;pagewanted=print&#038;adxnnlx=1210251611-89RlpNcx9vKV2Q2hHaJskw\">Young Video Makers Try to Alter Islam\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Face<\/a> (New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In a rare legal success, civil liberties groups successfully fight off another FBI abuse of national security letters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/05\/07\/AR2008050703808_pf.html\">FBI Backs Off From Secret Order for Data After Lawsuit<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PM Gordon Brown uses electoral fear-mongering and politicization of a top Scotland Yard counterterrorism official to push for more Big Brother powers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/politics\/1936476\/Police-%27being-used-to-push-42-day-detention%27.html?source=rss\">Police &#8216;Being Used to Push 42-Day Detention&#8217;<\/a> (Telegraph)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Columnist Dan Froomkin opines that the latest buzz about Bush torture officials being subpoenaed to testify before Congress will not lead to greater accountability:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/blog\/2008\/05\/07\/BL2008050701806_pf.html\">Torture Showdown Coming?<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Delays over restoration of deposed judges and parliamentary elections strain the new Pakistani government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s popular credibility:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/article\/20080507\/FOREIGN\/661389393\/1002\/NEWS\">Coalition Falters Amid Taunts of Descent Into \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCollision Government\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/a> (The National)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former defense lawyer for ex-Gitmo prisoner alleges that the lack of a fair legal hearing and exposure to torture led to Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi to terrorism: Ex-Guantanamo Detainee Joined Iraq Suicide Attack (Washington Post) \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Landmark ruling\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in Malaysia upholds ethnic Chinese woman\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Qur\u00e2\u20ac\u2122anic and Prophetic rights to leave Islam: Malaysian Woman Can Leave Islam (BBC [&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-655","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\/655","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=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}