{"id":1615,"date":"2004-12-19T09:12:19","date_gmt":"2004-12-19T08:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2004\/12\/19\/theatre_protest_over_insult_to_an_asian_religion"},"modified":"2004-12-19T09:12:19","modified_gmt":"2004-12-19T08:12:19","slug":"theatre_protest_over_insult_to_an_asian_religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2004\/12\/19\/theatre_protest_over_insult_to_an_asian_religion","title":{"rendered":"Theatre protest over insult to an Asian religion &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, an Asian religion, I hope you weren&#8217;t thinking of Islam?<\/p>\n<p>Last night a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/england\/west_midlands\/4107437.stm\">large protest<\/a> by Sikhs took place outside the Birmigham Repertory Theatre against a play called Behzti (Dishonour), and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sky.com\/skynews\/article\/0,,30100-13267457,00.html\">vast majority<\/a> of the protestors attempted to actually storm the theatre, resulting in the performance being cancelled.  I&#8217;m waiting with bated breath for the Jihad-watchers to mention this (remember that Sikhs waged a terror campaign against India in the 1980s to separate their homeland from India).<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s mentioned that there&#8217;s no actual insult to Sikhism here (although they said that <em>The Satanic Verses<\/em> didn&#8217;t insult our <em>deen<\/em> either).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, an Asian religion, I hope you weren&#8217;t thinking of Islam? Last night a large protest by Sikhs took place outside the Birmigham Repertory Theatre against a play called Behzti (Dishonour), and the vast&#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":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-q3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615","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=1615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}