{"id":88,"date":"2013-06-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2013\/06\/10\/xpost-81-death-penalty-for-blasphemy\/"},"modified":"2013-06-10T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T00:00:00","slug":"xpost-81-death-penalty-for-blasphemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2013\/06\/10\/xpost-81-death-penalty-for-blasphemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-81: Death Penalty for Blasphemy (Or, What Not to Say in Front of a Syrian Rebel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">This comes buried in a <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-middle-east-22840728\">BBC article<\/a> about the latest military developments in Syria:\n<\/div>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align:left;\"><p>Islamist rebels in Aleppo [in rebel-controlled Syria]&#8230;executed a 15-year-old boy in front of  his  parents as punishment for what they regarded as a blasphemous  comment.  &#8230;Mohammed Qataa was shot in  the face and neck a day after being  seized by the rebels, who allegedly  overheard the teenager tell  someone: &#8220;Even if the Prophet Muhammad comes  down [from heaven], I will  not become a believer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>          Before executing the boy, one of the rebels reportedly told   onlookers: &#8220;Disbelieving in God is polytheism and cursing the Prophet is   polytheism. Whoever curses even once will be punished like this.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"text-align:left;\">I&#8217;ve also heard, in my occasional following of the Syrian news, that churches have been &#8220;deliberately desecrated&#8221; in the battle zones by some of these Rebels. Why target churches? Assad and his group are not Christians. It just reminds me again that the more I know about Syria, the less I really know.\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"height: 20px; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<hr class=\"styled-hr\" style=\"width:100%;\">\n<div style=\"height: 20px; overflow: hidden; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wsite-image wsite-image-border-hairline wsite-image-border-black\" style=\"padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center\"> <a> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/3837392_orig.jpg\" alt=\"Picture\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:991px\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<div style=\"display:block;font-size:90%\">A scene from Homs, Syria, one year ago [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/infocus\/2012\/06\/syrias-civil-war\/100319\/\">The Atlantic<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This comes buried in a BBC article about the latest military developments in Syria: Islamist rebels in Aleppo [in rebel-controlled Syria]&#8230;executed a 15-year-old boy in front of his parents as punishment for what they regarded as a blasphemous comment. &#8230;Mohammed Qataa was shot in the face and neck a day after being seized by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}