{"id":184641,"date":"2012-02-26T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/26\/bully-for-him\/"},"modified":"2012-02-26T20:36:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T01:36:00","slug":"bully-for-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/02\/26\/bully-for-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Bully For Him!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Tunisia, Yunisian President Marzouki has requsted that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muslimsdebate.com\/n.php?nid=6200\">the parliament pass a law banning accusations of blasphemy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki on Saturday called on parliament to outlaw accusations of blasphemy as a threat to public order.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch practices can threaten the peace between citizens living in the same country and lead to conflict,\u201d Marzouki warned in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>He asked the president and members of the Constituent Assembly which in December approved the North African country\u2019s new government to adopt legislation \u201cthat outlaws accusations of blasphemy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Violators of the new law should be prosecuted \u201cto protect the coexistence, fraternity and solidarity among Tunisians,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think that the right to blaspheme is among the most basic of human rights, so I am heartened by this development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Tunisia, Yunisian President Marzouki has requsted that the parliament pass a law banning accusations of blasphemy: Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki on Saturday called on parliament to outlaw accusations of blasphemy as a threat to public order. \u201cSuch practices can threaten the peace between citizens living in the same country and lead to conflict,\u201d Marzouki &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,986,1021],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-middle-east","category-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}