{"id":26962,"date":"2009-08-24T11:46:45","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T11:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/08\/24\/todo-list-item-kill-child-beca\/"},"modified":"2009-08-24T11:46:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T11:46:45","slug":"todo-list-item-kill-child-beca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/24\/todo-list-item-kill-child-beca\/","title":{"rendered":"ToDo List Item:  Kill child because she converted to another religion."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional Islam is so cool because it really sticks with the old ways, and that&#8217;s quaint.   But it should be allowed to do this only in a museum where it might be safely kept away from actual people.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nFathima Rifqa Bary is the 17-year-old girl who converted from Islam to Christianity. She packed up her things and ran away to Florida because she feared an honor killing &#8212; her own family members killing her because of what she had done.<\/p>\n<p>Her parents say they just want her back safely, but reports say that her mother said Fathima was &#8220;dead to her&#8221;. The girl also said her father threatened to kill her after learning she had been baptized<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Technically, I think she&#8217;d be OK if she just &#8220;converted&#8221; to atheism, but I&#8217;m not sure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2009\/08\/23\/ex-muslim-runs-away-from-home-fearing-honor-killing\/\">The Friendly Atheist has this story covered.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional Islam is so cool because it really sticks with the old ways, and that&#8217;s quaint. But it should be allowed to do this only in a museum where it might be safely kept away from actual people. Fathima Rifqa Bary is the 17-year-old girl who converted from Islam to Christianity. She packed up her &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/24\/todo-list-item-kill-child-beca\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ToDo List Item:  Kill child because she converted to another religion.<\/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\/p5fhV1-70S","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26962"}],"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=26962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}