{"id":488,"date":"2006-01-07T00:44:35","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T23:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2006\/01\/07\/the_defrocking_of_the_religious_policeman"},"modified":"2025-10-10T22:22:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T21:22:25","slug":"the_defrocking_of_the_religious_policeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2006\/01\/07\/the_defrocking_of_the_religious_policeman","title":{"rendered":"The defrocking of &#8220;The Religious Policeman&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not much to add to this particular story myself, but brother <a href=\"http:\/\/abusinan.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/mahmood-over-at-mahmoods-den-has-made.html\">Abu Sinan<\/a> has been working on exposing the deception behind the so-called <a href=\"http:\/\/muttawa.blogspot.com\/\">Religious Policeman<\/a>, who purports to be a Saudi exile in London but actually does not seem to be an Arab at all, writing like a native English speaker and being apparently incapable of translating from the Arabic media himself, preferring to use the work of MEMRI and of real Arab bloggers &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/farahssowaleef.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/just-coz-i-know-i-can-and-you.html\">not all of them willing<\/a>.  By such clangers as thinking that a <em>real<\/em> Saudi blogger called Farah is a man, he demonstrates over and over that he is not really an Arab.  More on the situation: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daralhayat.com\/opinion\/editorials\/01-2006\/Item-20060104-96ceaf15-c0a8-10ed-0025-b64d4bbd291e\/story.html\">[1]<\/a> by Jihad al-Khazen at Dar al-Hayat (in Arabic); <a href=\"http:\/\/sabbah.biz\/mt\/?p=1167\">[2]<\/a> by Kuwaiti blogger Haitham Sabbah with a partial translation, <a href=\"http:\/\/abusinan.blogspot.com\/2006\/01\/once-again-religious-policeman-has.html\">[3]<\/a> also by Abu Sinan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much to add to this particular story myself, but brother Abu Sinan has been working on exposing the deception behind the so-called Religious Policeman, who purports to be a Saudi exile in London&#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":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-7S","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","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=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42637,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/42637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}