{"id":770,"date":"2008-09-10T12:15:18","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T17:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=770"},"modified":"2008-09-10T12:15:17","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T17:15:17","slug":"news-and-analysis-91008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=770","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (9\/10\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MFI advisor and spiritual leader of the American Muslims passes on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=771\">Allah Reclaims W.D. Mohammed<\/a> (MFI blog)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Zardari announces no  &#8220;substantive policy positions&#8221; on Pakistani issues at press conference:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-pakistan10-2008sep10,0,2343362.story\">Presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan Promise Solidarity<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Political factions confer to determine country&#8217;s defense strategy and potentially integrate Hezbollah weapons into the army:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2008\/09\/2008910105011913651.html\">Lebanon Rival to Hold New Talks<\/a> (Aljazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As the US plans to withdraw troops from Iraq, &#8220;the coalition of the willing appears to be going out of business&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/09\/09\/AR2008090903043.html\">Most Members of Iraq Coalition Preparing to Pull Up Stakes<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Falsified r\u00c3\u00a9sum\u00c3\u00a9 risks cabinet review by political opposition in Iran&#8217;s Parliament:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/09\/09\/AR2008090902924.html\">R\u00c3\u00a9sum\u00c3\u00a9 Scandal May Weaken Iran&#8217;s Leader<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As Anwar Ibrahim challenges the ruling party&#8217;s discrimination against non-Malays, they are embarrassed by an official calling the Chinese minority &#8220;&#8216;immigrants&#8217; and &#8216;squatters&#8217; who crave political and economic power&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/09\/10\/AR2008091000555.html\">Malaysia Official Suspended for Racial Remarks<\/a> (AP \/ Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MFI advisor and spiritual leader of the American Muslims passes on: Allah Reclaims W.D. Mohammed (MFI blog) Zardari announces no &#8220;substantive policy positions&#8221; on Pakistani issues at press conference: Presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan Promise Solidarity (LA Times) Political factions confer to determine country&#8217;s defense strategy and potentially integrate Hezbollah weapons into the army: Lebanon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-770","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\/770","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}