{"id":1181,"date":"2014-07-24T14:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T19:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2014-07-25T13:06:20","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T18:06:20","slug":"isil-fgm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2014\/07\/isil-fgm\/","title":{"rendered":"ISIL not to enforce FGM (Edited)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;text-align: justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/3becdeaf551f3e6085e42f5ab2035c1d\/tumblr_n96vt8mEFq1qcnn8do1_500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"260\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>**Update:<\/strong> Turns out this was a false rumor spread by UN\u2019s second senior most official, <strong>Jacqueline Badcock<\/strong> that was picked up by all news agencies and the media, but it <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/world\/2014\/07\/24\/3463683\/no-isis-isnt-ordering-female-genital-mutilation-in-iraq\/\">isn&#8217;t true<\/a>.<br \/>\n________________________<\/p>\n<p><del datetime=\"2014-07-25T17:59:44+00:00\"><a title=\"ISIL orders female genital mutilation of Iraqi girls\" href=\"http:\/\/al-shorfa.com\/en_GB\/articles\/meii\/newsbriefs\/2014\/07\/23\/newsbrief-02?change_locale=true\">The latest<\/a> from the extremist fringe movement of an already lunatic ideology:<\/del><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><!--more--><del datetime=\"2014-07-25T18:05:28+00:00\">Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the &#8220;Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant&#8221; (ISIL), has <strong>ordered the female genital mutilation (FGM) of two million Iraqi girls &#8220;to distance them from debauchery and immorality&#8221;<\/strong>, Middle East Online reported Wednesday (July 23rd).<\/del><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><del datetime=\"2014-07-25T18:05:28+00:00\">Because it is <em>sooo<\/em> morally right to decide what other people can and cannot do with their bodies.<\/del><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>**Update: Turns out this was a false rumor spread by UN\u2019s second senior most official, Jacqueline Badcock that was picked&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,9],"tags":[70,336,334,110,151],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-secularism","tag-fgm","tag-iraq","tag-isil","tag-islam","tag-misogyny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1188,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/1188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}