{"id":6631,"date":"2012-04-05T06:06:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-05T11:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=6631"},"modified":"2012-04-05T06:06:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-05T11:06:08","slug":"news-and-analysis-4512","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=6631","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (4\/5\/12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberals, secularists and even some members of the Muslim Brotherhood are &#8220;furious&#8221; or &#8220;livid&#8221; over the FJP&#8217;s about-face on running a presidential candidate, but the <em>New York\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><em>Times<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0reports that their &#8220;candidate is in regular contact with U.S. Ambassador Anne Paterson, and that U.S. officials have praised his moderation, intelligence and effectiveness&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/globalspin.blogs.time.com\/2012\/04\/04\/why-the-u-s-may-be-secretly-cheering-a-muslim-brotherhood-run-for-egypts-presidency\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why the U.S. May Be Secretly Cheering a Muslim Brotherhood Run For Egypt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Presidency<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Time)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Support for a &#8220;special relationship&#8221; with the Kurdish Regional Government appeals to &#8220;certain members of the U.S. Congress, think-tanks, and others concerned about diminishing U.S. influence in Baghdad, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki&#8217;s concentration of power, and the destabilizing Iranian role in Iraq&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mideast.foreignpolicy.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coddling Iraqi Kurds<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Foreign Policy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p>Christians are stepping\u00c2\u00a0 up their campaign against the Israeli attempt to make Muslims a scapegoat for the Zionist of the Christian community in Palestine.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/israelandpalestine.org\/an-open-letter-to-presiding-bishop-katharine-jefferts-schori-about-the-palestinian-occupation\/\" target=\"_blank\">An Open Letter to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori about the Palestinian Occupation<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Israel and Palestine)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uruknet.de\/colonna-centrale-pagina.php?p=m87010&amp;size=1&amp;hd=0&amp;l=x\" target=\"_blank\">Open letter to Michael Oren ahead of Easter<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Uruknet)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Critics &#8220;charge that prison and exile have hardly equipped [the moderate Islamist] ministers to navigate a difficult transition to democracy&#8221; but if &#8220;the revolution has so far brought little tangible improvement in living standards, freedom from Mr Ben Ali\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ruthless secret police is one gain Tunisians are determined to keep&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21552257\" target=\"_blank\">Doing Well on Parole<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(The Economist)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p>The judge said, &#8220;Whoever authorized these charges has apparently never watched a football game,&#8221; and the boys&#8217; attorneys &#8220;say they were only charged because of their Muslim background, and no other football player has ever been charged for an incident like this&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wxyz.com\/dpp\/news\/region\/wayne_county\/judge-dismisses-charges-against-four-muslim-high-school-football-players\">Judge Dismisses Charges Against Four Muslim High School Football Players<\/a> (WXYZ)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In an act that sparked sectarian violence in Egypt, the supreme court\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0sentenced a 17-year-old Christian boy to three years in jail for publishing cartoons on his\u00c2\u00a0Facebook\u00c2\u00a0page that mocked Islam and the Prophet Mohammad:<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/sns-rt-us-egypt-christians-jailbre8330y5-20120404,0,5955696.story\">Egypt Sends Christian Student to Jail for Insulting Islam<\/a> (The Chicago Tribune)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Iraq\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fugitive vice president, Tariq al-Hashimi, &#8230; wanted by Baghdad authorities on charges of terrorism&#8221; flew to Saudi Arabia &#8220;as Iraqi officials announced they had called off a national reconciliation conference &#8230; that was supposed to ease tensions between Shiite Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and the Sunni and Kurdish factions in his coalition government&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/iraqs-relations-with-arab-world-deteriorating-days-after-baghdad-summit\/2012\/04\/04\/gIQAPSXjvS_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Iraq&#8217;s Relations with Arab World\u00c2\u00a0Deteriorating\u00c2\u00a0Days After\u00c2\u00a0Baghdad\u00c2\u00a0Summit<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Washington Post with Foreign Policy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don&#8217;t say they have no sense of humor. Iranian officials say if the West doesn&#8217;t like Istanbul as the venue of the talks, they would gladly consider Syria, China, or Iraq:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Latest-News-Wires\/2012\/0404\/Is-Iran-s-proposal-to-hold-nuke-talks-in-Syria-Iraq-or-China-brinksmanship?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feeds%2Fworld+%28Christian+Science+Monitor+|+World%29\">Is Iran&#8217;s Proposal to Hold Nuke Talks in Syria, Iraq, or China Brinksmanship?<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pakistan says the U.S. must provide &#8220;concrete evidence&#8221; if it wants Islamabad to act against a militant leader Washington has placed a $10 million bounty on.\u00c2\u00a0Pakistani Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit says that any evidence against Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, would have to withstand judicial scrutiny:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/world\/article\/0,8599,2111105,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Pakistan Rebuffs U.S. Bounty for Militant<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Time)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberals, secularists and even some members of the Muslim Brotherhood are &#8220;furious&#8221; or &#8220;livid&#8221; over the FJP&#8217;s about-face on running a presidential candidate, but the New York\u00c2\u00a0Times\u00c2\u00a0reports that their &#8220;candidate is in regular contact with U.S. Ambassador Anne Paterson, and that U.S. officials have praised his moderation, intelligence and effectiveness&#8221;: Why the U.S. May Be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6631","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\/6631","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6631"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6642,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631\/revisions\/6642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}