{"id":89,"date":"2005-10-21T16:39:08","date_gmt":"2005-10-21T16:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2005\/10\/21\/zia_sardar_has_a_go_at_emel"},"modified":"2025-10-11T11:50:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T10:50:40","slug":"zia_sardar_has_a_go_at_emel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2005\/10\/21\/zia_sardar_has_a_go_at_emel","title":{"rendered":"Zia Sardar has a go at emel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did anyone else see Ziauddin Sardar on BBC2&#39;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/arts\/cultureshow\/\">Culture Show<\/a> in the feature on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emelmagazine.com\/\">emel magazine<\/a> last night?  He had the gall to criticise &quot;emel&quot; for being too &quot;orthodox&quot;, something he&#39;s not too keen on, judging by the article they printed by him in which he welcomed the &quot;bogus Jumu&#39;ah&quot; led by Amina Wadud in New York a few months ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/05\/22\/zia_sardar_weighs_in_on_wadud\">pouring scorn<\/a> in a style distinctly similar to that of <em>Muslim WakeUp!<\/em> on those who opposed the event.  I don&#39;t know about anyone else, but I think it speaks volumes that he thinks emel&#39;s <em>orthodoxy<\/em> is something to criticise, even as it has features on musicians like Sami Yusuf and the boxer Danny Williams &#8211; and his own article!  There&#39;s gratitude for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did anyone else see Ziauddin Sardar on BBC2&#39;s Culture Show in the feature on emel magazine last night? He had the gall to criticise &quot;emel&quot; for being too &quot;orthodox&quot;, something he&#39;s not too keen&#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":[15,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from_blogistan","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-1r","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","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=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42755,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions\/42755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}