{"id":6802,"date":"2012-04-26T05:19:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T10:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=6802"},"modified":"2012-04-26T05:19:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T10:19:44","slug":"news-and-analysis-42612","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=6802","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (4\/26\/12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Breivik has said that he wants to be judged sane so that his anti-Islamic ideology is taken seriously.&#8221; He denied that he has a Messiah complex, that the Knights Templar are not a paranoid fantasy and that what psychiatrists called his &#8220;&#8217;emotional flatness&#8217; was actually part of his military dehumanization training&#8221; to become a cold-blooded killer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Europe\/2012\/0425\/Breivik-says-psychiatric-report-deeming-him-insane-is-full-of-fabrications?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feeds%2Fworld+%28Christian+Science+Monitor+|+World%29\">Breivik Says Psychiatric Report Deeming Him Insane Is Full of &#8216;Fabrications<\/a>&#8216; (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Simon&#8217;s segment made clear that Israel isn&#8217;t\u00c2\u00a0targeting\u00c2\u00a0Palestinian Christians <em>as<\/em> Christians, rather they are\u00c2\u00a0targeted\u00c2\u00a0by Israeli policies because they are Palestinians&#8221; but he erred grievously when he asserts that the Israeli wall in the West Bank &#8220;completely separates Israel from the occupied West Bank&#8221; rather than divides the West Bank from itself:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.thejerusalemfund.org\/2012\/04\/what-bob-simon-got-right-and-wrong.html\">What 60 Minutes &amp; Bob Simon Got Right and Wrong<\/a> (Jerusalem Fund)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the wake of demands from Bedouins in the Sinai that the current terms of the Camp David Accords &#8220;do not guarantee national security and do not provide for the Bedouin population&#8217;s participation in security plans for the Peninsula&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/news\/middle-east\/muslim-brotherhood-official-egypt-s-peace-deal-with-israel-must-be-chaned-1.426647\">Muslim Brotherhood Official: Egypt&#8217;s Peace Deal with Israel Must Be Changed<\/a> (Haaretz)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153&#8217;People are scared of things they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know or understand,&#8217; Sikorski said, &#8216;and right now it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Islam.&#8217; By portraying these women as she sees them\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhappy, non-threatening surfer girls\u00e2\u20ac\u201dher art forces a reevaluation of the connotation of &#8216;otherness&#8217; that the head scarf often prompts in this country. &#8216;These are southern California girls,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sikorski said&#8217;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/losalamitos.patch.com\/articles\/burkini-surf-project-for-muslim-female-surfers\">Art Project Heralds Muslim &#8216;Burkini&#8217; Surfers<\/a> (Los Almitos &#8211; Seal Beach Patch)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Imam Asim Abdul Rashid, of the group that is sponsoring the reward, said Tuesday the the crimes are endangering members of the Muslim community.\u00c2\u00a0 &#8216;It puts our women in danger and it puts a black mark on our community in general&#8217;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/blogs\/headlines\/2012\/04\/muslim-group-offers-reward-for-criminals-in-muslim-garb\/\">Muslim Group Offers Reward for Criminals in Muslim Garb<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 (abc News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Arab Spring in reverse? Issuing a Mubarak-style decree to quash any effective opposition, the NTC bans &#8220;the formation of political parties based on religious principles ahead of elections scheduled to take place in June&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-17844280\">Libya Bans Religious Political Parties<\/a> (BBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The reinstatement of Mubarak&#8217;s PM Ahmed Shafiq will probably split votes with popular secular candidate Amr Moussa &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/egypt-islamic-body-backs-brotherhood-candidate-16213831#.T5hz18V63To\">Egypt Body Reinstates Ex-Premier in President Race<\/a> (AP \/ abc News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230; to the benefit of the FJP whose candidate has dumped the nearly meaningless old MB slogan &#8220;Islam is the solution&#8221; for a new completely meaningless slogan, &#8220;Renaissance is the will of the nation&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/Special\/2012\/04\/24\/Muslim-Brotherhood-candidate-adopts-new-slogan\/UPI-80801335290523\/\">Muslim Brotherhood Candidate Adopts New Slogan<\/a> (UPI)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Iran &#8220;is going step-by-step to the place where it will be able to decide whether to manufacture a nuclear bomb. It hasn&#8217;t yet decided whether to go the extra mile&#8221; &#8211;\u00c2\u00a0Lt. Gen. Benny Grantz, IDF chief:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Backchannels\/2012\/0425\/Israeli-army-chief-says-he-doubts-Iran-will-build-a-nuclear-weapon?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feeds%2Fworld+%28Christian+Science+Monitor+|+World%29\">Israeli Army Chief Says Be Doubts Iran Will Build a Nuclear Weapon<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;There was no mention of the bus shooting or bombardment in Syria&#8217;s rigidly controlled media or comment from the authorities in Damascus, which has barred most foreign journalists since the revolt started. Annan&#8221; says Syria &#8220;failed to withdraw weapons from population centers in violation of the terms of the April 12 truce he engineered&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/04\/26\/us-syria-idUSBRE83O0OL20120426?feedType=RSS&amp;feedName=topNews&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+reuters%2FtopNews+%28News+%2F+US+%2F+Top+News%29\">Syria Violence Rages, France Tells U.N. to Hurry<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Breivik has said that he wants to be judged sane so that his anti-Islamic ideology is taken seriously.&#8221; He denied that he has a Messiah complex, that the Knights Templar are not a paranoid fantasy and that what psychiatrists called his &#8220;&#8217;emotional flatness&#8217; was actually part of his military dehumanization training&#8221; to become a cold-blooded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6802","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\/6802","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6802"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6814,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6802\/revisions\/6814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}