{"id":262756,"date":"2010-02-01T20:35:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T01:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=21238"},"modified":"2010-02-01T20:35:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T01:35:39","slug":"superstitious-politicians-zardari%e2%80%99s-goat-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/262756","title":{"rendered":"Superstitious Politicians: Zardari\u2019s Goat Sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/theworldnewser\/2010\/01\/superstitious-politicians-zardaris-goat-sacrifice.html\">ABC News<\/a>:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 10px solid white\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c4df253ef012877294cbf970c-250wi\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"221\" height=\"166\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Politicians are no strangers to superstitious rituals \u2013\u00a0during Barack Obama\u2019s presidential campaign, his chief strategist David Axelrod carried a pink quartz heart in his pocket to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/politico\/20081103\/pl_politico\/15194\" >bring good luck<\/a>, former Indian prime minister <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/428081.stm\" >Indira Gandhi<\/a> was famous for consulting soothsayers and astrologers and Pakistan\u2019s president Asif Ali Zardari has been slaughtering black goats every day since becoming President, in an attempt to ward off \u201cthe evil eye\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>This particular practice in the Muslim faith is called \u2018Sadaqa\u2019, where an animal is slaughtered and its meat distributed among the poor to gain Allah\u2019s blessings and protection from misfortune. \u201cThere are many religious traditions in Pakistan based on local culture and Sufi order,\u201d says Samina Ahmed, Head of the International Crisis Group in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>In a speech made to his party members in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From ABC News: Politicians are no strangers to superstitious rituals \u2013\u00a0during Barack Obama\u2019s presidential campaign, his chief strategist David Axelrod carried a pink quartz heart in his pocket to bring good luck, former Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi was famous for consulting soothsayers and astrologers and Pakistan\u2019s president Asif Ali Zardari has been slaughtering black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}