{"id":6686,"date":"2009-12-11T23:35:28","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T04:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=6686"},"modified":"2009-12-11T23:35:28","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T04:35:28","slug":"bomb-sniffing-dogs-worry-muslim-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bomb-sniffing-dogs-worry-muslim-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb sniffing dogs worry Muslim leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only when they are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/canada\/british-columbia\/story\/2009\/12\/10\/bc-bomb-dogs-vancouver-transit-muslims.html\" target=\"_blank\">sniffing Muslims<\/a>, though:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bomb-sniffing dogs on Vancouver transit worry Muslim leader.<\/p>\n<p>Specially trained bomb-sniffing dogs might soon be patrolling Metro Vancouver&#8217;s buses and SkyTrains just in time for the Olympics, but that has some Muslims concerned.<\/p>\n<p>The Metro Vancouver Transit Police Service is in the process of selecting the handlers and dogs that will be part of the two-year pilot project, said deputy chief George Beattie.<\/p>\n<p>Once the teams are trained, the dogs will work on the entire transit system, including buses, SkyTrains and SeaBus ferries.<\/p>\n<p>But the idea of being sniffed up and down by a slobbery pooch \u2014 no matter how well trained \u2014 has already raised concerns among some members of Metro Vancouver&#8217;s Muslim community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But this doesn&#8217;t have anything to do with the possibility of a Muslim being caught carrying a bomb. No, really, it doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only when they are sniffing Muslims, though: Bomb-sniffing dogs on Vancouver transit worry Muslim leader. Specially trained bomb-sniffing dogs might soon be patrolling Metro Vancouver&#8217;s buses and SkyTrains just in time for the Olympics, but that has some Muslims concerned. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bomb-sniffing-dogs-worry-muslim-leader\/\">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":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[189],"tags":[2178],"class_list":["post-6686","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\/6686","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=6686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}