{"id":32781,"date":"2013-03-12T20:27:14","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T02:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/12\/a-cruel-clerical-critique-of-compassion-and-comforting-contact.html"},"modified":"2013-03-12T20:27:14","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T02:27:14","slug":"a-cruel-clerical-critique-of-compassion-and-comforting-contact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/12\/a-cruel-clerical-critique-of-compassion-and-comforting-contact.html","title":{"rendered":"A Cruel Clerical Critique of Compassion and Comforting Contact"},"content":{"rendered":"
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 the sexes … I'd be happy to stand beside him in doing so.<\/p>\n

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Ahmadinejad Under Fire For Hugging Chavez\u2019s Mother<\/a>
\n TEHRAN, Iran (AP) \u2014 Senior Iranian clerics have scolded President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for consoling Hugo Chavez\u2019s mother with a hug \u2014 a physical contact considered a sin under Iran\u2019s strict Islamic co…\n <\/p>\n

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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 the sexes … I'd be … Continue reading “A Cruel Clerical Critique of Compassion and Comforting Contact”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24642,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/18\/hugo-chavez-would-be-proud-of-newt.html","url_meta":{"origin":32781,"position":0},"title":"Hugo Chavez would be proud of Newt","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 18-Dec-11 2:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Granted, he hasn't said he would send US Marshals to arrest them just for being \"activists\" (read: \"acting in ways I don't like\"), but as part of issuing them subpoenas and dragging them in front of Congressional hearings on their \"activism.\"I think the Politburo used to behave that way, too.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14997,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/11\/hugo-chavez-this-time-you-have-gone-too-far.html","url_meta":{"origin":32781,"position":1},"title":"HUGO CHAVEZ – THIS TIME YOU HAVE GONE TOO FAR!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 11-Jun-09 12:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Call our old president the devil, call our nation warmongers, foist your book off on our new president, but ... you do not diss our soft drinks! 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