{"id":675,"date":"2008-06-02T11:19:55","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T16:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=675"},"modified":"2008-06-02T11:19:56","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T16:19:56","slug":"news-and-analysis-6208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=675","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (6\/2\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Sait Sanli stress the Qur\u00e2\u20ac\u2122an\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s emphasis on forgiveness to end many of Turkey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cultural blood feuds:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/0603\/p01s01-wome.htm\">In Turkey, a      Lone Peacemaker Ends Many Blood Feuds<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Cries of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153collective punishment\u00e2\u20ac\u009d force Fulbright to reinstate their scholarships to Gazan students\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7430846.stm\">Gaza Fulbright      Grants Reinstated<\/a> (BBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6but not Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s occupation and further expropriation of Palestinian land:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7430141.stm\">Israel Plans      More Settler Homes<\/a> (BBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Egyptian \u00e2\u20ac\u0153playwrights-turned-anthropologists\u00e2\u20ac\u009d explore social issues affecting Muslim women in a series of humorous, but serious dramatic monologues:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/0602\/p04s01-wome.htm\">In Egypt,      &#8216;Dramatic&#8217; Push for Women&#8217;s Voices<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Denmark\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s embassy in Pakistan gets rocked by a terror attack\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/06\/02\/AR2008060200236_pf.html\">In      Pakistan, Danish Embassy Bombing Kills at Least 6<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6meanwhile the only anti-Taliban strategy Islamabad can come up with a state-controlled<br \/>\n&#8220;conservation corps&#8221;, funded with U.S. foreign aid:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/02\/world\/asia\/02pstan.html?_r=1&#038;hp=&#038;oref=slogin&#038;pagewanted=print\">Taliban      Leader Flaunts Power Inside Pakistan<\/a> (New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Extremists threaten war against liberal Indonesian Muslims defending the rights of a minority sect of a few hundred members in a country of 220 million:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/7431340.stm\">Indonesia      Hardliner&#8217;s War Threat<\/a> (BBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sait Sanli stress the Qur\u00e2\u20ac\u2122an\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s emphasis on forgiveness to end many of Turkey\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cultural blood feuds: In Turkey, a Lone Peacemaker Ends Many Blood Feuds (Christian Science Monitor) Cries of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153collective punishment\u00e2\u20ac\u009d force Fulbright to reinstate their scholarships to Gazan students\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Gaza Fulbright Grants Reinstated (BBC News) \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6but not Israel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s occupation and further expropriation of [&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-675","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\/675","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=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}