{"id":3364,"date":"2009-03-21T14:45:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T19:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2009-03-21T14:45:57","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T19:45:57","slug":"anjem-choudary-and-donkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anjem-choudary-and-donkeys\/","title":{"rendered":"Anjem Choudary and donkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally, a sufficiently serious religious news item appears that I find it necessary to eschew irony in order to assess, in a serious and sober way, the exigent theological quodlibet.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/pix\/2009\/03\/21\/article-1163510-031DAC330000044D-891_235x282.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"117\" height=\"141\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Today, we are looking at the tendency of man, in this post-Christian era, to be attracted to donkeys. It may not have occurred to you, but it has occurred to the burrophobic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1163510\/All-homosexuals-stoned-death-says-Muslim-preacher-hate.html\" target=\"_blank\">Anjem Choudary<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He said: &#8216;If a man likes another man, it can happen, but if you go on to fulfil your desire, if it is proved, then there is a punishment to follow. You don&#8217;t stone to death unless there are four eyewitnesses. It is a very stringent procedure.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There are some people who are attracted to donkeys but that does not mean it is right.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anjem Choudary advocates stoning homosexuals caught in the act &#8211; but only if they happen to be observed in flagrante by four people; personally, I would simply make the coupling paramours pay for psychiatric counselling for the onlookers to help them cope with the trauma.<\/p>\n<p>What is missing from all this, is the penalty for the donkey lovers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally, a sufficiently serious religious news item appears that I find it necessary to eschew irony in order to assess, in a serious and sober way, the exigent theological quodlibet. Today, we are looking at the tendency of man, in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anjem-choudary-and-donkeys\/\">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],"class_list":["post-3364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","tag-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364","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=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}