{"id":361415,"date":"2010-02-25T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7655103.post-3066699633719117265"},"modified":"2010-02-25T07:45:01","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T12:45:01","slug":"revisiting-the-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/361415","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting the Death Penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S4XuB__RgJI\/AAAAAAAAFJk\/1bdNo877EJw\/s1600-h\/zara.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 291px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_OR8dKL3XDN8\/S4XuB__RgJI\/AAAAAAAAFJk\/1bdNo877EJw\/s400\/zara.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442017442871214226\" \/><\/a><br \/>&#8220;&#8230;Three month old [Zara Malani-Lin Abdur-Raheem] was allegedly taken from her grandmother&#8217;s arms&#8230;when <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Shamsid-Din Abdur-Raheem assaulted the elderly woman, punching and choking her before snatching his daughter and speeding off in his car. The 21-year-old also may have struck the elderly women with the vehicle during his <\/span>flight.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">After allegedly dropping his daughter in the river,<\/span> Abdur-Raheem drove to an Atlantic City mosque, Masjid Muhammad, and confessed to an imam, according to authorities and the suspect\u2019s father, Muhsin Abdur-Raheem. Abdur-Raheem then traveled to another mosque in Camden County and, ultimately, to his father\u2019s home in Winslow. It was Muhsin Abdur-Raheem who notified police his son was there.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">The 21-year-old then told local police he pulled over on the Driscoll Bridge sometime during rush hour, and dropped his infant daughter into the icy Raritan River<\/span>&#8230;&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2010\/02\/state_police_resume_search_for.html\">source<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>I hate this story. For days I haven&#8217;t been able to get little Zara&#8217;s face out of my mind. <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Why can&#8217;t parents love their kids just a little more than they hate their exes?!<\/span> Who could throw their 3 month old into a February river&#8230;off a bridge. ANY 3 month old. Osama Bin Laden&#8217;s baby&#8230;a dog or a kitten even? Please let a jury send Shamsid-Din Abdur-Raheem home to Allah.<\/p>\n<p>RIP little Zara.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7655103-3066699633719117265?l=mobyrebuttal.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;Three month old [Zara Malani-Lin Abdur-Raheem] was allegedly taken from her grandmother&#8217;s arms&#8230;when Shamsid-Din Abdur-Raheem assaulted the elderly woman, punching and choking her before snatching his daughter and speeding off in his car. The 21-year-old also may have struck the elderly women with the vehicle during his flight. After allegedly dropping his daughter in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361415","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}