{"id":7067,"date":"2012-06-08T22:12:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T03:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=7067"},"modified":"2012-06-15T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T15:00:07","slug":"news-and-analysis-6812","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=7067","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (6\/8\/12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Marine Gen. John Allen flew to Logar province to personally deliver his regrets to villagers and provincial officials for the deaths of women, children and village elders in Wednesday&#8217;s pre-dawn raid to capture a Taliban operative. Afghan officials have said the airstrike called in by\u00c2\u00a0NATO\u00c2\u00a0troops killed 18 civilians&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Latest-News-Wires\/2012\/0608\/NATO-apologizes-for-civilian-deaths-in-Afghan-airstrike?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feeds%2Fworld+%28Christian+Science+Monitor+|+World%29\">NATO Apologizes for Civilian Deaths in Afghan Airstrike<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Blaming &#8220;several longtime commissioners&#8221; the &#8220;suit quotes Shea as writing that &#8216;hiring a Muslim like Ms. Ghori-Ahmad to analyze religious freedom in Pakistan would be like &#8220;hiring an IRA activist to research the UK twenty years ago&#8221;\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/under-god\/post\/federal-lawsuit-charges-religious-freedom-commission-with-discriminating-against-muslims\/2012\/06\/08\/gJQAs62NOV_blog.html\">Federal Lawsuit Charges Religious Freedom Commission with Discriminating Against Muslims<\/a> (AP \/ Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Writing a new constitution is a key step in Egypt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s transition because it will not only define the powers of the new president and the parliament, but it will also lay out the relationship between Islam and the state and define the military\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s role in politics&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Middle-East\/2012\/0608\/Egypt-s-Islamists-give-secular-parties-equal-role-in-constitution-writing?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feeds%2Fworld+%28Christian+Science+Monitor+|+World%29\">Egypt&#8217;s Islamists Give Secular Parties Equal Role in Constitution Writing<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;On what was supposed to be the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Friday of Isolating Ahmed Shafiq,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a call to protest the Egyptian presidential candidate who was Hosni Mubarak\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s last prime minister, the crowd in Tahrir Square could be counted in the hundreds&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/2012\/06\/07\/3649110\/empty-tahrir-square-underscores.html\">Empty Tahrir Square Underscores Split Between Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Revolutionaries<\/a> (Kanas City Star)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In Europe, &#8220;backlash against Muslim integration will continue to come from &#8230; the populist movements that are in a stronger position because of the recession and the currency crisis, and from foreign governments and international movements that don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t intend to let go without a fight&#8221; despite &#8220;signs of Muslims\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 social and political normalization&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com\/2012\/06\/07\/islams-place-in-europe\/\">Islam\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Place in Europe<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Global Public Square)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The debate over Islam and hip hop in Europe is heating up as governments wade in:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/2012\/06\/20126310151835171.html\">Don&#8217;t Panik! Islam and Europe&#8217;s &#8216;Hip Hop Wars&#8217;<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sectarian tension escalates in Syria and raises fears of an Iraq-style sectarian bloodbath and worsened tensions between Shi&#8217;ite\u00c2\u00a0Iran\u00c2\u00a0and mainly Sunni-led Arab states:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/world\/2012\/0608\/1224317500557.html\">Killings Suggest Syria Already in the Grip of Sectarian Conflict<\/a> (Irish Times)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/06\/08\/us-syria-crisis-idUSBRE84S0P020120608\">U.N. Monitors Shot at in Syria, Annan Plan Crumbles<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(Reuters)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/middle_east\/un-monitors-said-to-reach-site-of-syrian-massacre\/2012\/06\/08\/gJQAnXAYNV_story.html\">U.N. Monitors Investigate Syrian Massacre<\/a> (Washington Post with Foreign Policy)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Do the US and Israel believe that Iran has a nuclear weapons program? \u00c2\u00a0Did President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad really promise to &#8216;wipe Israel off the map&#8217;? \u00c2\u00a0The answers may surprise you&#8221;:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Middle-East\/2012\/0608\/Iran-s-nuclear-program-4-things-you-probably-didn-t-know\/President-Mahmoud-Ahmadinejad-never-said-that-Israel-should-be-wiped-off-the-map.\">Iran&#8217;s Nuclear Program: 4 Things You Probably Didn&#8217;t Know<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The leader of a Belgian Islamist group, Sharia4Belgium, was arrested on Thursday for posting an Internet video urging attacks on non-Muslims after a woman was detained in Brussels for wearing a face veil&#8221; and &#8220;detained at his home in &#8230; Antwerp and remanded in custody on suspicion of breaking anti-discrimination laws and inciting violence&#8221;:<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/2012\/06\/07\/belgium-arrests-islamist-for-hate-video-after-riot-over-face-veil-arrest\/\">Belgium Arrests Islamist for Hate Video After Riot over Face Veil Arrest<\/a> (Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1><span class=\"entry-title\">U.N. monitors investigate Syrian massacre<\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Marine Gen. John Allen flew to Logar province to personally deliver his regrets to villagers and provincial officials for the deaths of women, children and village elders in Wednesday&#8217;s pre-dawn raid to capture a Taliban operative. Afghan officials have said the airstrike called in by\u00c2\u00a0NATO\u00c2\u00a0troops killed 18 civilians&#8221;: NATO Apologizes for Civilian Deaths in Afghan [&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-7067","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\/7067","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=7067"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7102,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions\/7102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}