{"id":840,"date":"2008-11-18T13:20:28","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T18:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=840"},"modified":"2008-11-18T13:20:28","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T18:20:28","slug":"news-and-analysis-111808","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=840","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (11\/18\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an appeal opposed by both parties, France imposes its secular values over both Muslim tradition and the right of contract in what one lawyer calls a &#8220;forced marriage:&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/17\/AR2008111701634.html\">French Court Overturns Muslim Marriage Annulment<\/a> (AP \/ Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite accusations of over $13 billion lost to &#8220;fraud, embezzlement, theft and waste by Iraqi government officials&#8221;:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/18\/world\/middleeast\/18maliki.html?pagewanted=1&#038;ref=world\">Premier of Iraq Is Quietly Firing Fraud Monitors<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Council on Foreign Relations examines the complexities in creating the security pact:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/18\/AR2008111801118.html\">U.S. Security Agreements and Iraq<\/a> (CFR \/ Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Obama will inherit greater power in domestic spying power than any other new president in more than 30 years&#8221; and how he chooses to wield it will effect the outcome of on several cases against Muslims:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/18\/washington\/18nsa.html?pagewanted=1&#038;partner=rss&#038;emc=rss\">Early Test for Obama on Domestic Spying Views<\/a> (NY Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Blockade continues in Gaza as Israeli releases Fatah partisans:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/17\/AR2008111702974.html\">Israel to Set Free 250 Palestinian Prisoners<\/a> (AP \/ Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Initially agreeing to supply Israel with <span id=\"Span1\" class=\"DetaildSuammary\">oil in the Camp David peace treaty<\/span>, Egypt was under Israeli pressure to supply natural gas when the oil reserves dried up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span id=\"DetailedTitle\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/news\/middleeast\/2008\/11\/2008111895917929279.html\">Egypt Court Freezes Israel Gas Deal<\/a>                 (Al Jazeera)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Experimental commuter train slowly gains popularity as it avoids traffic and security checkpoints:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-train18-2008nov18,0,6451514,full.story\">All Aboard the Baghdad Metro<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an appeal opposed by both parties, France imposes its secular values over both Muslim tradition and the right of contract in what one lawyer calls a &#8220;forced marriage:&#8221; French Court Overturns Muslim Marriage Annulment (AP \/ Washington Post) Despite accusations of over $13 billion lost to &#8220;fraud, embezzlement, theft and waste by Iraqi government [&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-840","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\/840","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=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}