{"id":16414,"date":"2012-05-06T20:47:37","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T00:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=16414"},"modified":"2012-05-06T20:47:37","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T00:47:37","slug":"cirque-du-guantanamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/cirque-du-guantanamo\/","title":{"rendered":"Cirque du Guantanamo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five of the 9\/11 conspirators are appearing before a military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay.<\/p>\n<p>So far, they have refused to answer the judge\u2019s questions, extended the proceedings by repeatedly kneeling on the floor and praying &#8211; a perverse accommodation of the court since conspicuous Christian prayers would not be allowed in a secular courtroom \u2013 removed their translator headphones and feigned indifference to the proceedings by ostentatiously reading magazines.<\/p>\n<p>And now the defense attorney for this execrable bunch is not only wearing a hijab herself, but has passed on the prisoners\u2019 request that other women in the courtroom show respect for the defendants\u2019 religion by doing likewise so that her merry band of sexually-repressed, psychotic, mass-murdering Islamofascists don\u2019t have to go to the trouble of averting their gaze.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn\u2019t suggest this under any other circumstance, I really wouldn\u2019t, but in this case, it&#8217;s justified: to show the religion of these gibbering demoniacs the respect it deserves, all the women in the courtroom should show up topless.<\/p>\n<p>The whole fiasco is a powerful argument for the judicial efficacy of summary lynching.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2140393\/9-11-Guantanamo-trial-American-female-defense-lawyer-covers-traditional-Islamic-dress.html?ito=feeds-newsxml\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A female defense attorney, who is not Muslim, wore the traditional Islamic hijab to the military court staging the trial of five Guantanamo Bay prisoners accused of the September 11 attacks yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Cheryl Bormann, 52, who represents Walid bin Attash, said that her client had demanded she wear the clothing and insisted that other women at the hearing also wear &#8216;appropriate&#8217; clothes out of respect for his religion.<\/p>\n<p>Today she explained her decision at Guantanamo Bay, saying she always wears the hijab around her client.<\/p>\n<p>She asked that other women follow her example so that the defendants do not have to avert their eyes &#8216;for fear of committing a sin under their faith&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five of the 9\/11 conspirators are appearing before a military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay. So far, they have refused to answer the judge\u2019s questions, extended the proceedings by repeatedly kneeling on the floor and praying &#8211; a perverse accommodation of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/cirque-du-guantanamo\/\">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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2021],"class_list":["post-16414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3","tag-2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16414","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=16414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}