{"id":1271,"date":"2006-11-26T17:04:51","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T17:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2006-11-26T17:05:30","modified_gmt":"2006-11-26T17:05:30","slug":"this_cant_be_go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=1271","title":{"rendered":"This Can&#8217;t Be Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.ask.com\/\/article\/20061126\/D8LKS5881.html\" target=\"browser\">From AP<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Islamist candidates swept to victory in Bahrain&#8217;s parliamentary election, splitting the vote between hardline Shiite and Sunni Muslims while female and liberal candidates fared poorly in the U.S.-allied kingdom, preliminary results showed Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\nWith several races headed for runoffs, Saturday&#8217;s vote appeared to reinforce the sectarian divide between the Persian Gulf island&#8217;s governing Sunni minority and the underprivileged Shiites who make up two-thirds of its 700,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe results also underlined a deepening social and religious conservatism in Bahrain, which has been among the most liberal of Arab states in the region and is host to the U.S. Navy&#8217;s Fifth Fleet.<\/p>\n<p>\nOf 18 women running, only one won outright &#8211; Latifa al-Gaoud, who was unopposed in her district. Another, Munira Fakhro, advanced to a runoff next Saturday but faces a tough race against Salah Ali of the pro-government Muslim Brotherhood, a hardline Sunni group.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamists are winning elections. Problems will ensue&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}