{"id":16792,"date":"2012-09-27T09:21:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T13:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=16792"},"modified":"2012-09-27T09:21:33","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T13:21:33","slug":"freedom-of-expression-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=16792","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Of Expression, Ctd."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n<a href='http:\/\/worldnews.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2012\/09\/26\/14112854-blasphemy-or-democracy-egypt-cleric-tears-up-burns-new-testament-at-us-embassy?lite'>An ultra-conservative Islamist<\/a> cleric in Egypt faces charges of blasphemy after he allegedly tore up and burned copies of the New Testament at a protest in front of the American Embassy in Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Mohammed Mahmoud Abdallah, also known as Sheikh Abu Islam, is part owner of a private ultra-conservative Islamic TV station known as Al Uma and was participating in demonstrations against a U.S.-made movie denigrating the Prophet Muhammad that swept the Muslim world in the last month.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt\u2019s General Prosecutor accused Abu Islam and his son, the channel's executive director, of insulting religion \u2013 in this case Christianity.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I must admit I find that a little surprising.<\/p>\n<p>I still think such laws are stupid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An ultra-conservative Islamist cleric in Egypt faces charges of blasphemy after he allegedly tore up and burned copies of the New Testament at a protest in front of the American Embassy in Cairo. Ahmed Mohammed Mahmoud Abdallah, also known as Sheikh Abu Islam, is part owner of a private ultra-conservative Islamic TV station known as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}