{"id":2806,"date":"2008-12-08T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T16:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2008-12-08T16:00:05","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T16:00:05","slug":"2008-12-8-links-for-december-8th-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2806","title":{"rendered":"Links for December 8th"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for December 8th:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cuminet.blogs.ku.dk\/\">CUMINet &middot; Copenhagen University Middle East and Islam Network<\/a> &#8211; Middle East blog of Danish academics.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1043042.html\">Hajj in exchange for power &#8211; Haaretz &#8211; Israel News<\/a> &#8211; Amira Hass on Hamas&#39; hajj policy, aimed at establishing its legitimacy vis-a-vis Ramallah as well as Saudi and Egypt. This affair, with Hamas preventing hajjis who did not register through Gaza from going, has been used a lot of the government press in Egypt to attack them and undermine their religious credentials.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news\/long_standing_conflict_ends_as?utm_source=onion_rss_daily\">Long-Standing Conflict Ends As Israel Returns Lawn Mower To Palestine | The Onion<\/a> &#8211; You won&#39;t see this kind of moral message in the NYT: &quot;The mower was originally lent to Chaim Weizmann, the first president of Israel, in November 1949 as a good-faith gesture by Palestinians seeking to reach out to the people who had appropriated 80 percent of their land and wished to cut the grass growing there.&quot;<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/07\/magazine\/07wwln-essay-t.html?_r=1&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=soroush&amp;st=cse\">Idea Lab &#8211; Who Wrote the Koran? &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; On Iranian theologian Abdulkarim Soroush, who questions the direct divinity of the Quran. I wonder how this relates to the concept of Wilayat al-Umma developed by some Najafi dissident theologians.<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5ioi_0jtO9RjMwPNRoXNCndRPRq3gD94U1SU00\">The Associated Press: Curbs make Gaza fete like turkey-less Thanksgiving<\/a> &#8211; Eid in Gaza &#8211; note that Egyptian security recently stopped a convoy of sheep and food at the border. &#39;Ebb!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<p>Links from my del.icio.us account for December 8th:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cuminet.blogs.ku.dk\/\">CUMINet &middot; Copenhagen University Middle East and Islam Network<\/a> &#8211; Middle East blog of Danish academics.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/hasen\/spages\/1043042.html\">Hajj in exchange for power &#8211; Haaretz &#8211; Israel News<\/a> &#8211; Amira Hass on Hamas&#39; hajj policy, aimed at establishing its legitimacy vis-a-vis Ramallah as well as Saudi and Egypt. This affair, with Hamas preventing hajjis who did not register through Gaza from going, has been used a lot of the government press in Egypt to attack them and undermine their religious credentials.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news\/long_standing_conflict_ends_as?utm_source=onion_rss_daily\">Long-Standing Conflict Ends As Israel Returns Lawn Mower To Palestine | The Onion<\/a> &#8211; You won&#39;t see this kind of moral message in the NYT: &quot;The mower was originally lent to Chaim Weizmann, the first president of Israel, in November 1949 as a good-faith gesture by Palestinians seeking to reach out to the people who had appropriated 80 percent of their land and wished to cut the grass growing there.&quot;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/12\/07\/magazine\/07wwln-essay-t.html?_r=1&amp;scp=1&amp;sq=soroush&amp;st=cse\">Idea Lab &#8211; Who Wrote the Koran? &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; On Iranian theologian Abdulkarim Soroush, who questions the direct divinity of the Quran. I wonder how this relates to the concept of Wilayat al-Umma developed by some Najafi dissident theologians.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5ioi_0jtO9RjMwPNRoXNCndRPRq3gD94U1SU00\">The Associated Press: Curbs make Gaza fete like turkey-less Thanksgiving<\/a> &#8211; Eid in Gaza &#8211; note that Egyptian security recently stopped a convoy of sheep and food at the border. &#39;Ebb!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[211],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}