{"id":19093,"date":"2013-03-29T18:08:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T22:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=19093"},"modified":"2013-03-29T18:08:54","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T22:08:54","slug":"i-feel-a-rare-moment-of-sympathy-for-atheist-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/i-feel-a-rare-moment-of-sympathy-for-atheist-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"I feel a rare moment of sympathy for atheist bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19094\" alt=\"Islamists\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/article-2301138-18FD5E2D000005DC-404_964x641.jpg\" width=\"329\" height=\"218\" \/>In Bangladesh, at least, where fanatical Islamists are demanding the arrest of atheist bloggers.<\/p>\n<p>A belief system that can sustain itself only by forcibly silencing all opposition is necessarily false. Islamists are not the first to try this, of course, nor will they be the last; it&#8217;s just as well that, in the long run, it never works.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2301138\/Tens-thousands-Islamic-activists-hold-prayers-streets-Bangladesh-capital-new-blasphemy-laws.html?ITO=1490&amp;ns_mchannel=rss&amp;ns_campaign=1490\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tens of thousands of Islamic activists prayed on the streets of the Bangladeshi capital today during a rally calling for the introduction of blaspemy laws and the restoration of a caretaker government.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Islami Andolan Bangladesh are demanding the arrest of &#8216;atheist bloggers who insulted Islam&#8217; and to pass laws punishing those who &#8216;insulted Islam in the parliament&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>They have announced plans to &#8216;lay siege&#8217; to the office of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on April 25 if their demands are not met.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Bangladesh, at least, where fanatical Islamists are demanding the arrest of atheist bloggers. A belief system that can sustain itself only by forcibly silencing all opposition is necessarily false. Islamists are not the first to try this, of course, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/i-feel-a-rare-moment-of-sympathy-for-atheist-bloggers\/\">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":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[2049,458,2178],"class_list":["post-19093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","tag-atheism","tag-bangladesh","tag-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19093","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=19093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}