{"id":189564,"date":"2010-03-11T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/11\/this-is-literally-the-american-taliban\/"},"modified":"2010-03-11T22:35:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T03:35:00","slug":"this-is-literally-the-american-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/03\/11\/this-is-literally-the-american-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Literally the American Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that there is a group of <span>Talibaptists<\/span> in Amarillo, Texas who have decided to spend their time <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2010\/03\/repent_amarillo.php\">engaging in a concerted program of harassment and intimidation directed at the local swingers club<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I could lambaste them, but <span>PZ<\/span> Myers does so well at the above link that it&#8217;s not necessary.<\/p>\n<p>I would note that their targets, in addition to swingers and strip clubs, includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Buddhists.<\/li>\n<li><span>Moslems<\/span>.<\/li>\n<li>Unitarian <span>Universalists<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Shriners<\/span> (the Masons)<\/li>\n<li>The Local Episcopal Church<\/li>\n<li>Earth Day<\/li>\n<li>Breast Cancer Awareness Day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And of course:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rock and roll<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unsurprisingly, the local Sheriff&#8217;s department has been unwilling to respond to this, though, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasobserver.org\/dateline\/he-who-casts-the-first-stone\">according to the <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Texas Monthly<\/span><\/a>, the state troopers have been actually doing their job after a fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that there is a group of Talibaptists in Amarillo, Texas who have decided to spend their time engaging in a concerted program of harassment and intimidation directed at the local swingers club. I could lambaste them, but PZ Myers does so well at the above link that it&#8217;s not necessary. I would note &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1021,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189564"}],"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=189564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}