{"id":733,"date":"2008-07-31T10:19:29","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T15:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=733"},"modified":"2008-07-31T10:19:29","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T15:19:29","slug":"news-and-analysis-73108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (7\/31\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Islamic organization complies with requests for publicly-available evidence in a monumental lawsuit over the national surveillance program\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s legality: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/07\/30\/BASO121L4U.DTL&#038;type=printable\">Muslim      Ex-Charity Has Evidence It Was Spied On<\/a> (San Francisco Chronicle)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Politically-charged AKP trail ends in financial sanctions rather than disbandment of the ruling party, avoiding what could have been a political and economic crisis in <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Turkey<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-turkey31-2008jul31,0,6267599,print.story\">Turkey      Court Decides Against Ban on Ruling AKP Party<\/a> (<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Los Angeles<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"> Times)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Under <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Australia<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s newly revamped immigration policy, Afghan and Iraqi refugees seeking asylum will no longer be detained for years in off-shore camps:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/0730\/p99s01-duts.html\">Australia No Longer to Detain Asylum Seekers<\/a> (Christian Science Monitor)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Insurgents in Iraq have not been eradicated, but merely pressed to relocate their operations to Afghanistan and Pakistan:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/07\/30\/AR2008073003239_pf.html\">Al-Qaeda     in Iraq Leader May Be in Afghanistan<\/a> (<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Washington<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"> Post)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Internet cafes, cable providers, and music stores are among those considered the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153traitors of Allah\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in a recent threat by Pakistani Taliban:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dailytimes.com.pk\/print.asp?page=2008%5C07%5C31%5Cstory_31-7-2008_pg7_18\">Taliban      Warn \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcun-Islamic\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Businesses of Dire Consequences<\/a> (Daily Times)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Syrian critics of the government on assert their Damascus Declaration calling for democracy was non-offensive and made in defense of the homeland:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenews.com.pk\/print1.asp?id=127259\">Syria Holds Trial Against \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDissidents\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/a>      (The News International)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Member of the religious police accused of violating the religious law he purports to enforce by taking more wives than the law allows:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/7535088.stm\">Saudi Accused of      Having Six Wives<\/a> (BBC News)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">In Steven T. Wax\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Kafka Comes to <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">America<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the accounts of two men jailed without charge illustrate &#8220;the threat from terrorists is real, but the unfortunate reality is that the threat from an overzealous response to terrorism is real as well&#8221;:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/07\/30\/AR2008073002736_pf.html\">Taking      Liberties<\/a> (<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Washington<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"> Post)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Following the release of a report that disproved politically-charged allegations against him, Malaysian leader Anwar Ibrahim seeks to regain his original seat in Parliament:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\" style=\"margin-top: 0in\">\n<li class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2008\/07\/31\/malaysia039s-anwar-fight-election-wife039s-seat.html\">Malaysia&#8217;s      Anwar to Fight Election in Wife&#8217;s Seat<\/a> (<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">Jakarta<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"> Post)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic organization complies with requests for publicly-available evidence in a monumental lawsuit over the national surveillance program\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s legality: Muslim Ex-Charity Has Evidence It Was Spied On (San Francisco Chronicle) Politically-charged AKP trail ends in financial sanctions rather than disbandment of the ruling party, avoiding what could have been a political and economic crisis in Turkey: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","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\/733","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}