{"id":2623,"date":"2003-01-20T15:47:18","date_gmt":"2003-01-20T10:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/20\/stupidity-watch-2\/"},"modified":"2003-01-20T15:47:18","modified_gmt":"2003-01-20T10:17:18","slug":"stupidity-watch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200301\/stupidity-watch-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Stupidity Watch."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite><font size = -1>Posters bearing the name of the Harkat-ul-Jehadi-Islamia (HUJI), stuck on the main walls of a mosque in Shahdara Sharief in the border district of Rajouri, asked women to quit government jobs by January 25.<br \/>The posters &#8230; also directed all families to get their daughters, who have reached the age of 15, married immediately.<\/font><\/cite>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rediff.com\/news\/2003\/jan\/20jk1.htm\" class = \"source\">Rediff.com: Militants&#8217; deadline for Muslim women to quit jobs<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Where do these one-fatwa wonders spring from? Do they actually hope to gain anything from these except visibility? If I didn&#8217;t have full faith in the incompetence of the government, I&#8217;d have been convinced that these things are part of a disinformation campaign to discredit the terrorists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posters bearing the name of the Harkat-ul-Jehadi-Islamia (HUJI), stuck on the main walls of a mosque in Shahdara Sharief in the border district of Rajouri, asked women to quit government jobs by January 25.The posters &#8230; also directed all families to get their daughters, who have reached the age of 15, married immediately.(Rediff.com: Militants&#8217; deadline [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}