{"id":29838,"date":"2011-12-13T17:35:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T17:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ottawa_imam_says_honour_killings_have_no_place_in_islam\/"},"modified":"2011-12-13T17:35:12","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T17:35:12","slug":"ottawa_imam_says_honour_killings_have_no_place_in_islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29838","title":{"rendered":"(HolyPost Blog) Ottawa Imam says Honour killings have no place in Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The imam of the Ottawa Mosque has condemned so-called honour killing, saying the practice speaks to a perverse sense of honour that is alien to Islam, and has no place in society.<\/p>\n<p>Samy Metwally said Friday that it doesn\u2019t make sense to think or believe that any religion will condone killing people to preserve family honour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s called honour killing is not part of Islamic teaching or tradition, and in fact there is no honour in this killing at all,\u201d\u009d Metwally told the Citizen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has nothing to do with religion and it has no backup either from the texts of the Koran or from the behaviour, sayings or deeds of the Prophet Muhammad, who is the model for Muslims.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/life.nationalpost.com\/2011\/12\/11\/honour-killings-have-no-place-in-islam-ottawa-imam\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The imam of the Ottawa Mosque has condemned so-called honour killing, saying the practice speaks to a perverse sense of honour that is alien to Islam, and has no place in society. Samy Metwally said Friday that it doesn\u2019t make<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29838\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,207,426,114,155,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-canada","category-islam","category-law-legal-issues","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}