{"id":852,"date":"2008-12-01T15:06:39","date_gmt":"2008-12-01T20:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=852"},"modified":"2008-12-01T15:06:39","modified_gmt":"2008-12-01T20:06:39","slug":"news-and-analysis-120108","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=852","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis (12\/01\/08)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">Note to Muslims &#8212; sometimes civil disobedience is both the moral AND legal thing to do:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inlap.freeuk.com\/ploughsh.htm\">Ploughshares Women Freed<\/a> (INLAP)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">Optimism fades as Obama&#8217;s cabinet nominations do not indicate a break with the Bush administration&#8217;s hawkish policies or America&#8217;s pro-Israeli stance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-clinton1-2008dec01,0,3988657.story\">Foreseeing a Clinton State Department, Israelis and Arabs Retool Their Expectations<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The only gunman captured after the attacks said he belonged to Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani militant group which was banned in 2002:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/30\/AR2008113002218.html?sid=ST2008113002693&#038;s_pos=\">In Just Minutes, Mumbai Was Under Siege<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Libyan ship containing food, blankets and powdered milk forced to dock in Egypt:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2008\/dec\/01\/israeli-navy-gaza-humanitarian-aid-block\">Israeli Navy Blocks Gaza Aid Ship<\/a> (Guardian)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;I became more aware of people&#8217;s struggles,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t think about repercussions. I wasn&#8217;t calling for war or killing. I just called people to hold to their dreams, their dignity.&#8221; &#8212; Iman Bakry<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-poet1-2008dec01,0,744076.story\">Dissident Poet is Allowed to Speak, but Egypt&#8217;s Leaders Aren&#8217;t Listening<\/a> (LA Times)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Robert Baer, a former CIA operative, argues Iran&#8217;s attempt to domininate Arab politics should be met with diplomacy and negotiation rather than confrontation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/11\/26\/AR2008112603599.html\">Persian Shrug<\/a> (Washington Post)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note to Muslims &#8212; sometimes civil disobedience is both the moral AND legal thing to do: Ploughshares Women Freed (INLAP) Optimism fades as Obama&#8217;s cabinet nominations do not indicate a break with the Bush administration&#8217;s hawkish policies or America&#8217;s pro-Israeli stance: Foreseeing a Clinton State Department, Israelis and Arabs Retool Their Expectations (LA Times) 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-852","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\/852","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=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}