{"id":9568,"date":"2010-08-19T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T20:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=9568"},"modified":"2010-08-19T16:29:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T20:29:00","slug":"the-religion-of-peace-wants-to-cut-a-mans-spine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-religion-of-peace-wants-to-cut-a-mans-spine\/","title":{"rendered":"The religion of peace wants to cut a man\u2019s spine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emirates247.com\/news\/region\/saudi-court-mulls-verdict-to-cut-defendant-s-spine-2010-08-19-1.281080\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A court in Saudi Arabia is seeking medical advice on whether it is possible to cut the spinal cord of a man as a punishment after he was indicted of causing paralysis to another man during a fight, a local daily reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The court in the northwestern province of Tabuk has sent letters to hospitals in the kingdom asking them whether the punishment to cripple the defendant by severing his spine is medically possible, the Arabic language daily Okaz said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKing Khaled Hospital is of the opinion that it is possible to cut the spinal cord and cause paralysis medically through specialist centres,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the paper, the verdict is pending responses from hospitals to the court\u2019s letters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That an act so grotesque be sought by a judicial system is bad enough, but when it is law derived from a religion, it can only mean one thing: the religion is as grotesque as the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: A court in Saudi Arabia is seeking medical advice on whether it is possible to cut the spinal cord of a man as a punishment after he was indicted of causing paralysis to another man during a fight, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-religion-of-peace-wants-to-cut-a-mans-spine\/\">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":[2178,2244,1424],"class_list":["post-9568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","tag-islam","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-sharia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9568","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=9568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}