{"id":816,"date":"2008-10-24T10:30:06","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T15:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=816"},"modified":"2008-10-24T10:30:06","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T15:30:06","slug":"news-and-analysis-102408","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (10\/24\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lepers. Untouchables. Politically radioactive&#8221; among the terms Muslims use to describe their treatment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/23\/AR2008102301987.html\">US Muslim Voters are Election Year Outcasts<\/a> (AP \/ Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Turkey continues to struggle between it&#8217;s liberal Islamic and authoritarian secular identity:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/oct\/24\/turkey-islam\">Turkish Prime Minister&#8217;s Attempt to Lift Ban on Headscarves Ruled Anti-Secular<\/a> (Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Researching her master&#8217;s thesis on the status of women in Iran, Esha Momeni is detained and her relative&#8217;s home searched after a traffic violation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-esha24-2008oct24,0,2787094.story\">Concern Over Arrest of Iranian American Student in Tehran<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Amana Income and sister fund Amana Growth are designed for U.S. Muslims who wish to invest according to their beliefs:&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/10\/23\/AR2008102302117.html\">Islamic Principles Pave Way to Top for Amana Funds<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Critical to success, Husain Haqqani attempts to balance the needs of a fragile government with the concerns of the US:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-haqqani24-2008oct24,0,3416066.story\">Pakistan&#8217;s Man in Washington Walks a Delicate Line<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Strike organized on &#8220;United Nations Day&#8221; to protest the lack of progress on a peace agreement in Kashmir:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/asia\/2008\/10\/2008102474442913727.html\">Kashmiris Strike Over UN Inaction<\/a> (Al Jazeera)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lepers. Untouchables. Politically radioactive&#8221; among the terms Muslims use to describe their treatment: US Muslim Voters are Election Year Outcasts (AP \/ Washington Post) Turkey continues to struggle between it&#8217;s liberal Islamic and authoritarian secular identity: Turkish Prime Minister&#8217;s Attempt to Lift Ban on Headscarves Ruled Anti-Secular (Guardian) Researching her master&#8217;s thesis on the status [&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-816","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\/816","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=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}