{"id":1300,"date":"2005-11-28T16:59:53","date_gmt":"2005-11-28T15:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2005\/11\/28\/zahid_and_parveen_sharif_acquitted"},"modified":"2025-10-11T11:37:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T10:37:01","slug":"zahid_and_parveen_sharif_acquitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2005\/11\/28\/zahid_and_parveen_sharif_acquitted","title":{"rendered":"Zahid and Parveen Sharif acquitted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/3835601.stm\">reported this afternoon<\/a> that Zahid and Parveen Sharif, who were accused of knowing about their brother Omar&#39;s involvement in the Tel Aviv pizza-parlour bombings in 2003 and not saying anything, were acquitted of all charges today.  The sister of Asif M Hanif was acquitted earlier this year.  <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/3825765.stm\">Reading the published extracts<\/a>, I agree that no jury could conclude <em>beyond reasonable doubt<\/em> that Omar Sharif&#39;s words convey impending involvement in terrorism or other criminal activity, or that someone is bound to gather such a conclusion (why? because the author is a Muslim?).  They speak, at the most specific, of impending danger.  Nothing more.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#39;s see how the jihad watchers deal with this story, as pieces they&#39;ve written in the past give the impression that, as usual, they considered the accused in this case guilty until proven otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC reported this afternoon that Zahid and Parveen Sharif, who were accused of knowing about their brother Omar&#39;s involvement in the Tel Aviv pizza-parlour bombings in 2003 and not saying anything, were acquitted&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3792,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine","category-terrorism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-kY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42708,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions\/42708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}