{"id":6522,"date":"2009-12-03T12:10:54","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T17:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=6522"},"modified":"2009-12-03T12:10:54","modified_gmt":"2009-12-03T17:10:54","slug":"a-ramadan-grope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/a-ramadan-grope\/","title":{"rendered":"A Ramadan grope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/news\/ramadan-used-as-defence-by-cabbie-groper\/story-e6freuy9-1225806767496\" target=\"_blank\">Life gets frustrating<\/a> for Muslim men during Ramadan since there is no conjugal boinky-boinky:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A DISGRACED Muslim taxi driver tried to use the holy time of Ramadan as his defence against allegations he repeatedly grabbed the breast of a disabled female passenger.<\/p>\n<p>Abdul Majid Qazizada, 51, had argued that Ramadan was a time when Muslim men &#8220;don&#8217;t even touch their wives&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He was yesterday found guilty of the aggravated indecent assault of a 23-year-old woman who suffers cerebral palsy and epilepsy.<\/p>\n<p>Magistrate Jennifer Betts said Qazizada claimed he was a devout Muslim who was fasting when the attack occurred in September last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; &#8216;Men don&#8217;t even touch their wives (during Ramadan)&#8217;, were his words,&#8221; Ms Betts said in Ryde Local Court.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An interesting if ineffective defence: a variation on \u201cthe devil made me do it\u201d. \u201cYour honour, Ramadan made me do it\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life gets frustrating for Muslim men during Ramadan since there is no conjugal boinky-boinky: A DISGRACED Muslim taxi driver tried to use the holy time of Ramadan as his defence against allegations he repeatedly grabbed the breast of a disabled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/a-ramadan-grope\/\">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-6522","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\/6522","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=6522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}