{"id":7151,"date":"2010-01-21T18:34:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T23:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7151"},"modified":"2010-01-21T18:34:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T23:34:02","slug":"the-rise-of-the-phylactery-bomber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-rise-of-the-phylactery-bomber\/","title":{"rendered":"The rise of the phylactery bomber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/8472937.stm\" target=\"_blank\">demise of common sense<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A US Airways flight was diverted to Philadelphia after a young Jewish man&#8217;s prayer items triggered a bomb scare, Philadelphia police said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident arose when the man used a phylactery, a small black box Orthodox Jews strap to their head as part of their rituals, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The man was not arrested and the plane landed without incident.<\/p>\n<p>US airports are on high alert after a Nigerian man was held over an alleged bomb plot on a plane last month.<\/p>\n<p>His device allegedly malfunctioned and he was quickly overpowered by passengers and crew on the flight from Amsterdam to Detroit.<\/p>\n<p>The latest incident took place on a 50-seat regional jet originally bound for Louisville, Kentucky from New York&#8217;s LaGuardia airport. It landed in Philadelphia at about 0900 local time (1400 GMT).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can understand the concern, considering the alarming epidemic of young Jewish men strapping phylacteries to their heads and blowing themselves up. Scarcely a day passes without another occurrence. It&#8217;s a new and devious strategy: forget about secreting explosives next to your testicles where anyone could find them &#8211;\u00a0 put them in plain sight on your head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And the demise of common sense: A US Airways flight was diverted to Philadelphia after a young Jewish man&#8217;s prayer items triggered a bomb scare, Philadelphia police said. The incident arose when the man used a phylactery, a small black &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-rise-of-the-phylactery-bomber\/\">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":[254],"tags":[2225],"class_list":["post-7151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-correctness","tag-political-correctness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151","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=7151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}