{"id":39490,"date":"2013-08-10T21:29:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-10T21:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/malaysia_cracking_down_on_shiism\/"},"modified":"2013-08-10T21:29:10","modified_gmt":"2013-08-10T21:29:10","slug":"malaysia_cracking_down_on_shiism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39490","title":{"rendered":"(Straits Times) Malaysia cracking down on Shi&#39;ism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia is clamping down on Shi&#8217;ism, the second branch of Islamic orthodoxy, in a move that appears to have both religious and political overtones.<\/p>\n<p>The nationwide crackdown began last month with the ban of local Shi&#8217;ite group Pertubuhan Syiah Malaysia. The same month, state governments gazetted a 1996 fatwa issued by the National Fatwa Council that declared Shi&#8217;ism deviant and therefore haram or impermissible.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a witch hunt that has been going on for Shi&#8217;ite believers in four universities in Selangor and the federal territory of Kuala Lumpur, as well as in the opposition Parti Islam SeMalaysia (PAS).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.asiaone.com\/news\/malaysia\/malaysia-cracking-down-shiism\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia is clamping down on Shi&#8217;ism, the second branch of Islamic orthodoxy, in a move that appears to have both religious and political overtones. The nationwide crackdown began last month with the ban of local Shi&#8217;ite group Pertubuhan Syiah Malaysia.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39490\">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":[39,40,50,42,201,426,114,482,155,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-asia","category-islam","category-law-legal-issues","category-malaysia","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39490","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=39490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}