{"id":813,"date":"2008-10-21T11:38:24","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T16:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=813"},"modified":"2008-10-21T11:38:24","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T16:38:24","slug":"news-and-analysis-102108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=813","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (10\/21\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muslims accuse the government of using provocateurs to urge them &#8220;to shoot people, to blow them up&#8221; and entrap those who protest &#8220;Why would you want to do that? It&#8217;s forbidden in our religion:&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/printedition\/asection\/la-na-fortdix19-2008oct19,0,1368387,full.story\">&#8216;Ft. Dix Six&#8217; Informants in Hot Seat Too<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The brother of a man known for his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsf.org\/article.php3?id_article=25199\">criticism of the Balkh provincial authorities<\/a> has his life sentence for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nearinternational.org\/alert-detail.asp?alertid=171\">distributing an article questioning why Muslim women are not allowed four husbands<\/a> reduced:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/worldNews\/idUSTRE49K3WH20081021\">Afghan Journalist Gets 20 Years Jail for Blasphemy <\/a>(Reuters)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>U.S. backed Awakening leaders maintain tribal law while bidding for national recognition:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/20\/AR2008102003538.html?nav=rss_email\/components\">A New Breed Grabs Reins in Anbar<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Popular blog turned into a book captures the frustrations of Egyptians trying to get married:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/20\/AR2008102002589.html\">A Courtship Veteran Muses On Search for the Right Man<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kurdish-Arab relations continue to threaten the stability of Iraqi state:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/1021\/p01s04-wome.html?page=1\">US Referees Iraq&#8217;s Troubled Kurdish-Arab Fault Line <\/a>(Christan Science Monitor)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Egypt plans conference intending to restore Palestinian unity:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2008\/10\/20081020171048255908.html\">Palestinian Rivals Invited to Talks<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Open for the first time in six decades, trade route hopes to reduce tensions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/oct\/21\/kashmir-india\">India and Pakistan Open Historic Kashmir Trade Route<\/a> (Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muslims accuse the government of using provocateurs to urge them &#8220;to shoot people, to blow them up&#8221; and entrap those who protest &#8220;Why would you want to do that? It&#8217;s forbidden in our religion:&#8221; &#8216;Ft. Dix Six&#8217; Informants in Hot Seat Too (LA Times) The brother of a man known for his criticism of the [&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-813","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\/813","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=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}