{"id":698,"date":"2008-06-29T10:22:54","date_gmt":"2008-06-29T15:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=698"},"modified":"2008-06-29T10:22:54","modified_gmt":"2008-06-29T15:22:54","slug":"news-and-analysis-628-2908","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (6\/28-29\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the emphasis on negotiations in its new counterterrorism strategy, Pakistan launches its first offensive since the new government took\u00c2\u00a0 power two months ago:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wiredispatch.com\/news\/?id=231112\">Pakistan Launches Strike at Taliban Hideouts<\/a> (AP\/Wiredispatch)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Anwar Ibrahim flees to the Turkish embassy as the Malaysian state resuscitates the politically motivated accusations used to justify the opposition leader&#8217;s previous detention and torture:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/7479998.stm\">Malaysia&#8217;s Anwar Seeks Sanctuary<\/a> (BBC News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jakarta Post editorial argues Indonesian surveys on so-called shari\u00e2\u20ac\u2122a reveal complexities of the issue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2008\/06\/27\/editorial-surveys-sharia.html\">Editorial: Surveys on Sharia<\/a> (Jakarta Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Former prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi makes the legal arguments for impeachment in his book \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/orig8\/spielberg5.html\">Bush Behind Bars?<\/a> (Lew Rockwell.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>India\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s traditional Sufi-influenced Islamic traditions come under attack as a consequence of\u00c2\u00a0 injustice by the Indian state and the growth Wahhabism:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/06\/28\/AR2008062801101_pf.html\">India&#8217;s Moderate Muslims See Peril In Growth of Stricter Form of Islam<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite the rising voices of civil society and local religious leaders, poverty and tribal custom perpetuate the practice of child marriage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/29\/world\/middleeast\/29marriage.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin&#038;ref=world&#038;pagewanted=print\">Tiny Voices Defy Child Marriage in Yemen<\/a> (New York Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the emphasis on negotiations in its new counterterrorism strategy, Pakistan launches its first offensive since the new government took\u00c2\u00a0 power two months ago: Pakistan Launches Strike at Taliban Hideouts (AP\/Wiredispatch) Anwar Ibrahim flees to the Turkish embassy as the Malaysian state resuscitates the politically motivated accusations used to justify the opposition leader&#8217;s previous detention [&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-698","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\/698","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=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}