{"id":379,"date":"2003-08-31T22:10:32","date_gmt":"2003-09-01T02:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/08\/31\/laws-of-men\/"},"modified":"2007-02-16T00:31:46","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T04:31:46","slug":"laws-of-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2003\/08\/31\/laws-of-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Laws of men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a414\"><\/a>  The case of Amina Lawal <a href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/200308280742.html\">drags on<\/a>, <em>again<\/em>, with the case now adjourned until September 25.  Perhaps her lawyers will manage to argue a loophole that allows the men of the Shariah court to &#8220;save face&#8221;  and acquit her.  Instead of saving their faces, they should be rubbing the medieval scales from their eyes to see the En<em>light<\/em>enment.  But perhaps it&#8217;s too comfortable, from where they sit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The case of Amina Lawal drags on, again, with the case now adjourned until September 25. Perhaps her lawyers will manage to argue a loophole that allows the men of the Shariah court to &#8220;save face&#8221; and acquit her. Instead of saving their faces, they should be rubbing the medieval scales from their eyes to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yulelogstories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}