{"id":5299,"date":"2009-08-20T10:49:14","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T14:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=5299"},"modified":"2009-08-20T10:49:14","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T14:49:14","slug":"supermullah-faster-than-a-speeding-burka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/supermullah-faster-than-a-speeding-burka\/","title":{"rendered":"Supermullah, faster than a speeding burka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sharia-compliant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/middle_east\/article6802598.ece\" target=\"_blank\">super-heroes<\/a>:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/multimedia\/archive\/00603\/caroon-360__603098a.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"185\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They are fighting for truth, justice and the Islamic way and are heading for your living room \u2014 prepare to say salaam to the world\u2019s first Muslim superheroes.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the ample wrongs waiting to be righted across the Middle East, Superman, Spider-Man and Batman mainly fight evil in America. When the East has featured as a setting for superhero antics \u2014 as in the recent film Iron Man \u2014 it has tended to be as a source of villainy.<\/p>\n<p>That is about to change, courtesy of The 99, a Sharia-compliant version of the X-Men that has taken the Arab world by storm and has its sights set on the West.<\/p>\n<p>Its mission: to instil old-fashioned Islamic values in Christian, Jewish and atheist children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Islam, while being unable to hide its contempt for Western civilisation, is keen to adapt many of its fruits \u2013 sometimes the most banal specimens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharia-compliant super-heroes: They are fighting for truth, justice and the Islamic way and are heading for your living room \u2014 prepare to say salaam to the world\u2019s first Muslim superheroes. Despite the ample wrongs waiting to be righted across the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/supermullah-faster-than-a-speeding-burka\/\">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-5299","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\/5299","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=5299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}