{"id":690,"date":"2008-06-19T10:03:44","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T15:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=690"},"modified":"2008-06-19T10:03:44","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T15:03:44","slug":"news-and-analysis-61908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (6\/19\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Transparency International finds massive arrest campaign of Bangladesh\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s military government increases graft:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/7463377.stm\">Bangladesh &#8216;Losing On Corruption&#8217;<\/a> (BBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sunni Muslim religious board and political bloc condemn the recent Baghdad bombing while Mideast expert Juan Cole finds US evidence for blaming rogue Shi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122a militias for the blast is scant:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aswataliraq.info\/look\/english\/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&#038;IdPublication=4&#038;NrArticle=82929&#038;NrIssue=2&#038;NrSection=1\">IAF, Muslim Scholars Association Condemn Baghdad Bombing<\/a> (Voice of Iraq)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2008\/06\/massive-bomb-burns-market-kills-wounds.html\">Massive Bomb Burns Market, Kills, Wounds 126; US Soldier Killed Near Hilla; Debaathification Law Never Implemented <\/a>(Informed Comment Blog)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Investigative journalist Mark Benjamin provides a timeline for the Bush administration\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s early and deliberate sanctioning of torture:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/news\/feature\/2008\/06\/18\/interrogation\/print.html\">A Timeline to Bush Government Torture<\/a> (Salon.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kuwait\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new hardline Islamist-tribal alliance seeks to refashion society in a much more conservative mold:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/0618\/p01s07-wome.htm\">Kuwait&#8217;s Empowered Islamists Question all Things Western<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Muslim scholars and civil society activists slam mainstream religious and political bodies over its inaction to deal with violent vociferousness of extremist groups:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2008\/06\/19\/moderate-groups-under-fire-silence-over-radicals.html\">Moderate Groups Under Fire For Silence Over Radicals<\/a> (The Jakarta Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Uganda\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s president makes passionate appeal to the OIC to end the conflict in Sudan and reminds them of his country\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s support for Palestine:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/200806190011.html\">Uganda: Museveni Urges Islamic Bloc On Sudan<\/a> (AllAfrica.com\/New Vision)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transparency International finds massive arrest campaign of Bangladesh\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s military government increases graft: Bangladesh &#8216;Losing On Corruption&#8217; (BBC News) Sunni Muslim religious board and political bloc condemn the recent Baghdad bombing while Mideast expert Juan Cole finds US evidence for blaming rogue Shi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122a militias for the blast is scant: IAF, Muslim Scholars Association Condemn Baghdad Bombing [&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-690","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\/690","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=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}