{"id":25962,"date":"2009-02-04T18:13:55","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T18:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/02\/04\/a-most-diabolical-plot\/"},"modified":"2009-02-04T18:13:55","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T18:13:55","slug":"a-most-diabolical-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/04\/a-most-diabolical-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"A most diabolical plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is why all religion should simply not be allowed.  Even if the basic tenets of a religion are not too objectionable, its pieces &#8230; which consist of brainwashed people and the powerful ideas making up the framework of a culture &#8230; can be knitted together like household items into a pipe bomb or personal greed and gullibility into a felonious scam.<\/p>\n<p>Samira Jassam of Iraq arranged for the rape of about 80 different women.  She then convinced these women that, since they were raped, the best life they could hope for would involve strapping a bomb onto themselves, making themselves into human weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/heraldsun\/story\/0,21985,25006615-663,00.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/pharyngula\/2009\/02\/heres_one_face_of_evil.php\">Pharyngula<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is why all religion should simply not be allowed. Even if the basic tenets of a religion are not too objectionable, its pieces &#8230; which consist of brainwashed people and the powerful ideas making up the framework of a culture &#8230; can be knitted together like household items into a pipe bomb or personal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/04\/a-most-diabolical-plot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A most diabolical plot<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6KK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25962"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}