{"id":10978,"date":"2010-12-16T17:06:36","date_gmt":"2010-12-16T22:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=10978"},"modified":"2010-12-16T17:06:36","modified_gmt":"2010-12-16T22:06:36","slug":"yodeller-fined-for-offending-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/yodeller-fined-for-offending-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Yodeller fined for offending Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1339150\/Austrian-63-fined-700-Muslim-neighbours-claim-yodelling-mocks-prayer.html?ITO=1490\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An Austrian has been fined for yodelling while mowing his lawn because it offended his Muslim neighbours next door.<\/p>\n<p>A judge decided Helmut Griese, 63, was &#8216;ridiculing&#8217; their beliefs and fined him nearly \u00a3700.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than face a protracted court case with all its attendant legal costs, Griese agreed to pay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is obviously a miscarriage of justice: Griese should have been fined for yodelling regardless of the opinion of his Muslim neighbours, although the fact that they were offended by it would be a good reason to reduce the amount of the fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: An Austrian has been fined for yodelling while mowing his lawn because it offended his Muslim neighbours next door. A judge decided Helmut Griese, 63, was &#8216;ridiculing&#8217; their beliefs and fined him nearly \u00a3700. Rather than face a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/yodeller-fined-for-offending-muslims\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[2178,1173,1654],"class_list":["post-10978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","tag-islam","tag-offended-muslims","tag-yodelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}