{"id":7769,"date":"2012-10-09T17:17:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T22:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=7769"},"modified":"2012-10-09T17:17:24","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T22:17:24","slug":"news-and-analysis-10912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=7769","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (10\/9\/12)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We want to give a message to America that the more you carry out drone attacks, the more people will hate you,&#8221; says Imran Khan, while leading thousands to a protest against drone strikes; a statement that demonstrates why anti-American sentiments sell in Middle East politics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/oct\/07\/pakistan-military-blocks-antidrone-convoy\">Pakistani Military Blocks Anti-Drone Convoy from Entering Tribal Region<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0(The Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The women&#8217;s mosques and female imams estimated to be in the hundreds &#8220;are important because their endurance in China offers a vision of an older form of Islam that has inclusiveness and tolerance, not marginalization and extremism, at its core, the scholars say&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/10\/10\/world\/asia\/10iht-letter10.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;_r=0\">A Model of Inclusion for Muslim Women<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;American Muslims, polls also reveal, will be critical for the victory of either Obama or Romney in at least three states; namely, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Florida. But in already-decided states, like the blue state of New Jersey, the community has flexed its political muscle in not only local races but also in congressional battles&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nj.com\/dr_aref_assaf\/2012\/10\/american_muslims_swing_vote_potential.html\">American Muslims&#8217; Swing Vote Potential<\/a> (nj.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;[A]rmy commanders say they lack the firepower to capture the militiamen&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/oct\/09\/libyan-army-militia-us-ambassador\">Libyan Army Blockades Islamist Militia Suspected of Killing US Ambassador<\/a> (Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pat Buchanan asks: &#8220;If Iran advances ideas to demonstrate convincingly that it has no weapons program, but insists on what President Obama said he supports \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Iran having a peaceful nuclear program under U.N. inspection \u00e2\u20ac\u201d will America accept that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/buchanan\/2012\/10\/08\/is-a-nuclear-deal-with-iran-possible\/\">Is a Nuclear Deal With Iran Possible?<\/a> (antiwar.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>All three islands are\u00c2\u00a0strategically\u00c2\u00a0located. A treaty signed by the late, deposed shah gives Iran rights over Abu Musa, but the &#8220;UAE insists [the other two islands] belonged to the emirate of Ras al-Khaimah until [the shah] captured them by force days before the UAE statehood in 1971&#8221;:<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/wireStory\/iran-cut-ties-uae-disputed-islands-17432002#.UHRUihXA_Sg\">Iran May Cut Ties With UAE Over Disputed Islands<\/a> (AP \/ abc News)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;All felony convictions or attempted crimes &#8216;committed to support the revolution and its goals&#8217; were to be pardoned, the decree stated, with the exception of murder cases&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/oct\/09\/mohamed-morsi-pardon-egypt-prisoners\">Mohamed Morsi Issues Wholesale Pardon for Egypt&#8217;s Political Protesters<\/a> (Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;He told a judge that he denied charges that he conspired with US nationals to set up a terrorist training camp in the state of Oregon&#8221; just before she &#8220;set a [trial] date of 26 August 2013&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-19889820\">Abu Hamza Denies US Terror Charge<\/a> (BBC)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We want to give a message to America that the more you carry out drone attacks, the more people will hate you,&#8221; says Imran Khan, while leading thousands to a protest against drone strikes; a statement that demonstrates why anti-American sentiments sell in Middle East politics: Pakistani Military Blocks Anti-Drone Convoy from Entering Tribal Region\u00c2\u00a0(The [&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-7769","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\/7769","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=7769"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7782,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7769\/revisions\/7782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}