{"id":2536,"date":"2004-05-27T19:01:17","date_gmt":"2004-05-28T09:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/28\/life-in-fallujah-today\/"},"modified":"2019-12-10T10:51:01","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T18:51:01","slug":"life-in-fallujah-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/05\/27\/life-in-fallujah-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in Fallujah today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10961,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.canada.com\\\/winnipeg\\\/story.asp?id=F68A9FBE-D7C5-43C2-815E-5C2BC2D9797E&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.canada.com:443\\\/winnipeg\\\/story.asp?id=F68A9FBE-D7C5-43C2-815E-5C2BC2D9797E&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10962,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/atrios.blogspot.com\\\/2004\\\/05\\\/fallujah.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20041118050834\\\/http:\\\/\\\/atrios.blogspot.com:80\\\/2004\\\/05\\\/fallujah.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/atrios.blogspot.com\\\/2004\\\/05\\\/fallujah.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 04:53:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 04:53:24&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/winnipeg\/story.asp?id=F68A9FBE-D7C5-43C2-815E-5C2BC2D9797E\" title=\"Canada.com: Resembling an Islamic mini-state, Fallujah may be a glimpse of Iraq's future\">This is the democracy and freedom<\/a> that our soldiers are dying for&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  With U.S. marines gone and central government authority virtually nonexistent, Fallujah resembles an Islamic mini-state &#8211; anyone caught selling alcohol is flogged and paraded in the city. Men are encouraged to grow beards and barbers are warned against giving &#8220;western&#8221; hair cuts.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;After all the blood that was shed, and the lives that were lost, we shall only accept God&#8217;s law in Fallujah,&#8221; said cleric Abdul-Qader al-Aloussi, offering a glimpse of what a future Iraq may look like as the U.S.-led occupation draws to a close. &#8220;We must capitalize on our victory over the Americans and implement Islamic sharia laws.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  The departure of the marines under an agreement that ended the three-week siege last month has enabled hardline Islamic leaders to assert their power in this once-restive city 50 kilometres west of Baghdad.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/atrios.blogspot.com\/2004\/05\/fallujah.html\" title=\"Fallujah\">Atrios<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the democracy and freedom that our soldiers are dying for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}