{"id":197473,"date":"2008-01-31T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T22:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/31\/new-rule-our-troops-no-midieval-clerics-get-the-power-to-judge-people\/"},"modified":"2008-01-31T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T22:37:00","slug":"new-rule-our-troops-no-midieval-clerics-get-the-power-to-judge-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/31\/new-rule-our-troops-no-midieval-clerics-get-the-power-to-judge-people\/","title":{"rendered":"New Rule: Our Troops, No Midieval Clerics Get the Power to Judge People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sayed Pervez Kambaksh <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/asia\/sentenced-to-death-afghan-who-dared-to-read-about-womens-rights-775972.html\">has been sentenced to death<\/a> for blasphemy.<\/p>\n<p>Hi crime, he &#8220;he downloaded a report from a Farsi website which stated that Muslim fundamentalists who claimed the Koran justified the oppression of women had misrepresented the views of the prophet Mohamed&#8221;, and &#8220;distributed the tract to fellow students and teachers at Balkh University.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was not allowed a lawyer.  He was not allowed to speak.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve turned the most secular government in the Arab world into an ethnically cleansed theocracy, and because of the resources we pulled from Afghanistan to do <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">that<\/span>, Afghanistan is heading back towards becoming&#8230;well&#8230;Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Heck of a job, Bushie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sayed Pervez Kambaksh has been sentenced to death for blasphemy. Hi crime, he &#8220;he downloaded a report from a Farsi website which stated that Muslim fundamentalists who claimed the Koran justified the oppression of women had misrepresented the views of the prophet Mohamed&#8221;, and &#8220;distributed the tract to fellow students and teachers at Balkh University.&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1153,1195,971],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-capital-punishment","category-civil-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197473"}],"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=197473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}