{"id":3668,"date":"2011-01-04T19:39:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T19:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3668"},"modified":"2011-01-04T19:46:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T19:46:04","slug":"lion-of-the-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3668","title":{"rendered":"Lion of the Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong>, cross-posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartmobs.com\/2011\/01\/04\/courage-and-grief\/\">SmartMobs<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<p>I found this story strangely moving.  The governor of the province of the Punjab in Pakistan, <strong>Salmaan Taseer<\/strong>, was killed by one of his own guards &#8212; according to this <a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/04\/on-twitter-glimpses-of-a-slain-pakistani-governors-war-on-religious-fanatics\/\">NY Times Lede blog story<\/a>, because he was speaking out in favor of amending Pakistan&#8217;s <strong>blasphemy laws<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s my <strong>DoubleQuote twitter-requiem<\/strong> for a courageous man:<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.smartmobs.com\/wp\/uploads\/2011\/01\/quo-salman-taseer2.gif\" alt=\"quo-salman-taseer2\" width=\"608\" height=\"647\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron, cross-posted from SmartMobs ] I found this story strangely moving. The governor of the province of the Punjab in Pakistan, Salmaan Taseer, was killed by one of his own guards &#8212; according to this NY Times Lede blog story, because he was speaking out in favor of amending Pakistan&#8217;s blasphemy laws. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,279,178,199,210,14,96,502,128,533,211,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-free-speech","category-geopolitics","category-insurgency","category-islamist","category-networks","category-new-york-times","category-pakistan","category-personal","category-religion","category-terrorism","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}