{"id":798,"date":"2004-03-23T23:33:29","date_gmt":"2004-03-24T04:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/03\/winning_hearts_and_minds_1\/"},"modified":"2004-03-23T23:33:29","modified_gmt":"2004-03-24T04:33:29","slug":"winning_hearts_and_minds_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/winning_hearts_and_minds_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Winning Hearts and Minds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/WORLD\/meast\/03\/23\/iraq.main\/index.html\">This<\/a> isn&#8217;t going to help:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Tuesday, top Shiite clerics pledged allegiance to the Palestinians after Israel&#8217;s assassination of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Later, angry Muslims took to the streets.<br \/>\nGrand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most powerful Shiite cleric in Iraq, urged Muslims to unite against Israel and restore what he said belongs to the Palestinians.<br \/>\nMoqtada al-Sadr, a Shiite cleric with a powerful base in a poor Baghdad neighborhood, said Iraqi Muslims support the Palestinians.<br \/>\n&#8220;We as Muslims stand hand in hand with our brethren in Palestine,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And we say to them that we are ready to extend all forms of assistance, be it moral or physical.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Juan Cole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juancole.com\/2004_03_01_juancole_archive.html#108002597540012091\">fills in the troubling details<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/03\/winning_hearts_and_minds_1\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Winning Hearts and Minds\"><p>This isn&#8217;t going to help: On Tuesday, top Shiite clerics pledged allegiance to the Palestinians after Israel&#8217;s assassination of Hamas founder Sheikh Ahmed Yassin. Later, angry Muslims took to the streets. Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the most powerful Shiite cleric in Iraq, urged Muslims to unite against Israel and restore what he said belongs to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}