{"id":1997,"date":"2010-11-16T08:59:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T15:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2010-11-16T09:25:19","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T16:25:19","slug":"danish-debate-bare-breasts-or-bacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1997","title":{"rendered":"Danish Debate: Bare Breasts or Bacon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of two Danish political parties differ over whether including scenes of nude (or at least topless) beach-goers in an informative film about Denmark\u00a0 would <a href=\"http:\/\/politiken.dk\/newsinenglish\/ECE1108054\/parties-battle-over-bare-breasts\/\">discourage fundamentalist Muslims from trying to immigrate.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBare breasts are not a protection against fundamentalism,\u201d [Conservative Integration Spokesman Naser] Khader says on his    Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuite on the contrary. Fundamentalists [are] so sex crazy that bare breasts    would make them flock to the country. Perhaps one should try naked pigs and    pork\u2014 that\u2019ll keep them away&#8230;\u201d Khader says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Add this to your file on &#8220;embodied religion,&#8221; maybe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of two Danish political parties differ over whether including scenes of nude (or at least topless) beach-goers in an informative film about Denmark\u00a0 would discourage fundamentalist Muslims from trying to immigrate. \u201cBare breasts are not a protection against fundamentalism,\u201d [Conservative Integration Spokesman Naser] Khader says on his Facebook page. \u201cQuite on the contrary. 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Clifton","date":"February 6, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Brothers under the skinAndrew Sullivan, high-profile political blogger, makes a point that few people would: the Muslims rampaging over those \"evil cartoons\" and some Christians have a strong family resemblence: \"In the end, the real fundamentalists are on the same side.\"It's the side that says religious \"truth\" is more important\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4562,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=4562","url_meta":{"origin":1997,"position":3},"title":"Giant Green Goddess","author":"Chas S. Clifton","date":"August 29, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Northumberlandia is the name of a new sculpture made at the site of a former open-pit coal mine in northern England. 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