{"id":2739,"date":"2011-04-01T22:47:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-02T05:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/216.92.17.21\/?p=2739"},"modified":"2011-04-01T22:47:20","modified_gmt":"2011-04-02T05:47:20","slug":"daily-kaddish-burned-quran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/?p=2739","title":{"rendered":"daily kaddish: for a burned Qur&#8217;an"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[powerpress]<\/p>\n<p>I played today&#8217;s Kaddish on piano because my nose is still aching, and I&#8217;ve learned in the last several days that I flare my nostrils when I&#8217;m playing, because it hurts like mad. So I sat down at the piano instead and let Mira&#8217;s voice take the lead\u2014which she had to do anyway. Tonight&#8217;s Kaddish needed her voice intoning the bismilleh at beginning, at end, and throughout the middle.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by the <a title=\"New York Times reporting\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/02\/world\/asia\/02afghanistan.html?_r=1&amp;hp\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan \u2014 Stirred up by three angry mullahs who urged them to avenge the burning of a Koran at a Florida church, thousands of protesters on Friday overran the compound of the<a title=\"More articles about the United Nations.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/u\/united_nations\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">United Nations<\/a> in this northern Afghan city, killing at least 12 people, Afghan and United Nations officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The dead included at least seven United Nations workers \u2014 four Nepalese guards and three Europeans from Romania, Sweden and Norway \u2014 according to United Nations officials in New York. One was a woman. Early reports, later denied by Afghan officials, said that at least two of the dead had been beheaded. Five Afghans were also killed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As requested by Reb Deb:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Kaddish for a burned Qur&#8217;an\u00a0and for the 4 Afghans and 8 UN security personnel &amp; staff killed\u00a0today. \u00a0Check the numbers, tho.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>idiot<\/em>. \u00a0The blasphemous idiot. \u00a0\u00a0You don&#8217;t burn books.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have nothing to add.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Kaddish for a burned Qur&#8217;an and for the five Aghans, four Nepalese, and three Europeans killed today in retribution. As Reb Deb commented: &#8220;The idiot. The blasphemous idiot. You don&#8217;t burn books.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[216,253],"tags":[326,327,318,320,317,322,325,319,323,324,321],"class_list":["post-2739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kaddish-in-two-part-harmony","category-podcasts","tag-afghani","tag-beheaded","tag-blasphemy","tag-burning-books","tag-florida-idiot","tag-nepalese","tag-norwegian","tag-quran","tag-romanian","tag-swedish","tag-un"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2739"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2741,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2739\/revisions\/2741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beitmalkhut.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}