{"id":22458,"date":"2015-01-19T23:07:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T04:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=22458"},"modified":"2015-01-19T23:07:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T04:07:47","slug":"something-else-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/something-else-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Something else that has nothing to do with Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Raif\"Ensaf Haidar stood beside the kitchen table, urging her three children to eat. Newspapers featuring her husband\u2019s face on the front were spread in the spaces between three pizza boxes, and a banner covering most of the wall showed him as well, with several dozen signatures of those who attended a #FreeRaif vigil in Montreal.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll he did was blog,\u201d his wife said through an interpreter in an interview with The Globe and Mail on Wednesday. \u201cUntil the last moment, I couldn\u2019t believe it. I kept telling him it wasn\u2019t going to happen. It\u2019s impossible, it doesn\u2019t seem real.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Saudi Arabia, her husband Raif Badawi, 32, was preparing for the second 50 of his 1,000 lashes on Friday \u2013 but, as it turned out, that punishment was postponed, after a doctor concluded he had not sufficiently recovered from the first floggings administered Jan. 9. And according to Ms. Haidar, the Saudi government referred the case to the country\u2019s supreme court, suggesting international pressure might be having an effect.<\/p>\n

But Ms. Haidar isn\u2019t holding her breath: \u201cI won\u2019t stop [fighting] until Raif is free.\u201d<\/p>\n

As it stands, Mr. Badawi is to receive 50 lashes every Friday for 19 more weeks after prayers in front of a mosque in Jeddah, a city on the coast of the Red Sea. He was convicted of insulting Islam and religious figures on his blog, the Saudi Liberal Network, and sentenced to 10 years in prison and a 10-year order not to leave the kingdom and not to practise journalism after that. He faces a fine of about $319,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Don\u2019t be deceived by the phrase \u201c[h]e was convicted of insulting Islam\u201d or by the fact that the flogging takes place \u201cin front of a mosque in Jeddah\u201d or the \u201cprayers\u201d to Allah before the flogging. None of this has anything to do with Islam: Islam is a religion of peace, love and tolerance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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