{"id":11106,"date":"2007-04-09T16:05:13","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T23:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/04\/09\/hug.html"},"modified":"2007-04-09T16:05:13","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T23:05:13","slug":"hug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/09\/hug.html","title":{"rendered":"HUG!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thou shalt not hug! &nbsp;Eek! &nbsp;Hug cooties! &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/feeds\/ap\/2007\/04\/09\/ap3595059.html\" target=\"_blank\">Unholy inter-gender hug cooties!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Islamic clerics at a radical mosque in Pakistan&#8217;s capital have demanded the tourism minister be fired for hugging a foreign man, saying she committed a &#8220;great sin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Tourism Nilofar Bakhtiar rejected the Taliban-style edict Monday and said her family and friends were concerned for her safety.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And more gory details of the dastardly deed!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Photos in the Pakistani media have shown Bakhtiar being helped by a male instructor during a charity parachute jump in France last month to raise money for victims of the devastating October 2005 earthquake in Pakistan. Another picture shows a woman &#8211; apparently Bakhtiar &#8211; hugging the instructor.<\/p>\n<p>This was &#8220;an illegitimate and forbidden act,&#8221; the clerics said in their edict, or fatwa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Without any doubt, she has committed a great sin,&#8221; the fatwa said. It declared that Muslim women must stay at home and must not venture out uncovered.<\/p>\n<p>The fatwa demanded that Bakhtiar be fired, given another unspecified punishment and that her family &#8220;force her to ask for forgiveness so that she does not repeat this un-Islamic act.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Shameless hussy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thou shalt not hug! &nbsp;Eek! &nbsp;Hug cooties! &nbsp;Unholy inter-gender hug cooties! Islamic clerics at a radical mosque in Pakistan&#8217;s capital have demanded the tourism minister be fired for hugging a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32781,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/12\/a-cruel-clerical-critique-of-compassion-and-comforting-contact.html","url_meta":{"origin":11106,"position":0},"title":"A Cruel Clerical Critique of Compassion and Comforting Contact","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 12-Mar-13 8:27pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I have very little use for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and only marginally more for Hugo Chavez. \u00a0But if the Iranian President wants to flip the bird to the conservative Iranian clerics who have criticized him for hugging Chavez' grieving mother at the Venezuelan leader's funeral, thus engaging in \"forbidden\" contact between\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27577,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/25\/terrorized-or-terrorist.html","url_meta":{"origin":11106,"position":1},"title":"Terrorized? 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