{"id":88,"date":"2006-10-02T14:51:07","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T19:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=88"},"modified":"2018-02-28T14:41:19","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T19:41:19","slug":"news-and-analysis-update-100206","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/?p=88","title":{"rendered":"News and Analysis Update (10\/02\/06)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tariq Ramadan asks, &#8220;Will foreign scholars be permitted to enter the United States only if they promise to mute their criticisms of U.S. policy?&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/09\/29\/AR2006092901334.html\"> Why I&#8217;m Banned in the USA (Washington Post)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>American Jewish Community is asked to help move forward the Saudi peace plan:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forward.com\/articles\/saudis-in-quiet-talks-to-revive-arab-peace-bid\/\"><span class=\"main-title\">Saudis in Quiet Talks To Revive Arab Peace Bid<\/span>                 (The Forward)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Teenage imam fills gap created by paranoid visa policies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/09\/30\/AR2006093000976.html\"> After Homework, Duty as an Imam (Washington Post)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Promoting democracy by inviting the president of &#8220;the authoritarian government of Kazakhstan &#8230; to the White House for lunch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/nationworld\/chi-0609300103sep30,1,6574243.story\"> Bush Has Praise for &#8220;Free&#8221; Kazakhstan (Chicago Tribune)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Increasing chaos in Palestine as the government shuts down:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/5398706.stm\"> Hamas Closes Government Offices (BBC News)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>WIth the double taxation obstacle removed, financial alternatives flourish in Britain:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,5-2381834.html\"> No Interest Allowed, but Islamic Lending Is Finally Finding a Way (The Times)<br \/>\n<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tariq Ramadan asks, &#8220;Will foreign scholars be permitted to enter the United States only if they promise to mute their criticisms of U.S. policy?&#8221; Why I&#8217;m Banned in the USA (Washington Post) American Jewish Community is asked to help move forward the Saudi peace plan: Saudis in Quiet Talks To Revive Arab Peace Bid (The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","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\/88","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18332,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/18332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minaret.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}