{"id":4331,"date":"2011-09-22T01:06:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T01:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4331"},"modified":"2011-09-22T01:06:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T01:06:32","slug":"musa-al-sadr-an-honorable-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=4331","title":{"rendered":"Musa al-Sadr: an honorable death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; Libya, missing cleric ]<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/musa_al_sadr_by_sajjed_al_hadi.jpg\" title=\"musa_al_sadr_by_sajjed_al_hadi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/musa_al_sadr_by_sajjed_al_hadi.jpg\" alt=\"musa_al_sadr_by_sajjed_al_hadi.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>image of Musa al-Sadr by <a href=\"http:\/\/fc03.deviantart.net\/fs42\/f\/2009\/140\/e\/5\/Musa_Al_Sadr_by_Sajjed_Al_Hadi.jpg\"><strong>Sajjed-Al-Hadi<\/strong><\/a>, DeviantArt<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Robert Worth<\/strong>, in a <em>New York Times<\/em> piece titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/25\/magazine\/the-surreal-ruins-of-qaddafis-never-never-land.htm\">The Surreal Ruins of Qaddafi&#8217;s Never-Never Land<\/a> today, describes a conversation with one &#8220;Omar&#8221; who used to work for Libyan intelligence, and mentions in passing &#8220;the murder of Musa Sadr, an Iranian-Lebanese cleric who disappeared in Libya in 1978&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In parentheses, Worth notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(Omar said Sadr was beaten to death after daring to challenge Qaddafi at the dictator&#8217;s home on matters of theology.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>An honorable death.<\/p>\n<p>*<br \/>\nI wrote about the significance of <strong>Musa al-Sadr<\/strong> in <a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=3764\">Return of the Vanished Imam?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; Libya, missing cleric ] . image of Musa al-Sadr by Sajjed-Al-Hadi, DeviantArt Robert Worth, in a New York Times piece titled The Surreal Ruins of Qaddafi&#8217;s Never-Never Land today, describes a conversation with one &#8220;Omar&#8221; who used to work for Libyan intelligence, and mentions in passing &#8220;the murder of Musa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[670,647,446,523,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lebanon","category-libya","category-shia","category-theology","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331","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=4331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}