{"id":244,"date":"2005-08-01T17:59:32","date_gmt":"2005-08-02T01:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songoose.com\/?p=49"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:38:00","slug":"religious-policeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"Religious Policeman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Around the time that the <a href=\"http:\/\/iraqblogcount.blogspot.com\/\">Iraq blogs<\/a> started to get exposure in the MSM and <em>blogosphere<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/muttawa.blogspot.com\/\">The Religious Policeman<\/a> popped up. An adult Saudi with enlightened views, he was a true rarity in that he spoke to the frustrations of Saudi everyday life, religion, politics, and the police. Sadly, he&#8217;s not posted in over a year. (<strong>Update<\/strong>: in an odd serendipitous turn, <a href=\"http:\/\/muttawa.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>Alhamedi reappeared on the scene<\/strong><\/a> just 2 days after I posted this! Welcome back!) Re-reading his entries in light of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2005\/08\/02\/db0201.xml&#038;sSheet=\/portal\/2005\/08\/02\/ixportal.html\">King Fahd&#8217;s death<\/a> should raise fresh questions and concerns for anyone paying attention to the source of the juice that runs all our cars (and, apparently, most <a href=\"http:\/\/msnbc.msn.com\/id\/8853607\/site\/newsweek\/\">suicide bombers<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around the time that the Iraq blogs started to get exposure in the MSM and blogosphere, The Religious Policeman popped up. An adult Saudi with enlightened views, he was a true rarity in that he spoke to the frustrations of Saudi everyday life, religion, politics, and the police. Sadly, he&#8217;s not posted in over a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":586,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}