{"id":7776,"date":"2012-09-12T04:48:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T04:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=7776"},"modified":"2012-09-12T04:49:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T04:49:57","slug":"barbarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/barbarism\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbarism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/945-Islamists-conduct-amputations-on-stage-in-Mali.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/945-Islamists-conduct-amputations-on-stage-in-Mali.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"945-Islamists-conduct-amputations-on-stage-in-Mali\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7805\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/945-Islamists-conduct-amputations-on-stage-in-Mali.jpg 240w, https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/945-Islamists-conduct-amputations-on-stage-in-Mali-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><em>The New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/11\/world\/africa\/in-mali-islamists-maim-robbery-suspects.html\">reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DAKAR, Senegal \u2014 Radical Islamists who control northern Mali extended their campaign of enforcing harsh Shariah law on Monday, amputating the hands and feet of four young men they accused of robbery in the main square at Gao, a principal town in the region.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cut their right hand and their left foot, in the city of Gao, at the Place de l\u2019Ind\u00e9pendance,\u201d Aliou Mahamar Tour\u00e9, a professed Islamic commissioner with Mujao, an offshoot of Al Qaeda that controls Gao, said in a telephone interview. \u201cWe cut all that today. It is not us who ordered this. It is God.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2026In Gao, the real jihadists took their four young victims to the town center at midday Monday, according to a municipal counselor who saw the amputations, Abderahmane Oumarou Ma\u00efga. They tied them to pillars, \u201cfeet at the top, heads at the bottom,\u201d Mr. Ma\u00efga said, \u201csolidly attached.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For \u201ceach one, they cut off their hand and foot,\u201d said Mr. Ma\u00efga, using what he called \u201cgiant scissors,\u201d which had been specially fabricated, under duress, by a local blacksmith. \u201cIt was under threats that they did their dirty work,\u201d Mr. Ma\u00efga said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Revolting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reports: DAKAR, Senegal \u2014 Radical Islamists who control northern Mali extended their campaign of enforcing harsh Shariah law on Monday, amputating the hands and feet of four young men they accused of robbery in the main &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/barbarism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[711],"tags":[363,804,932,967],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7776"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7808,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7776\/revisions\/7808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}