{"id":10145,"date":"2011-07-05T09:42:35","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T13:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=10145"},"modified":"2011-07-05T09:47:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T13:47:33","slug":"would-be-terrorists-advised-to-pretend-to-be-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/07\/05\/would-be-terrorists-advised-to-pretend-to-be-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"Would-be terrorists advised to pretend to be gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A link from Jon, my former virtual landlord, discussing a document that fell into the hands of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/top-stories\/2011\/07\/03\/uk-terrorists-told-pretend-to-be-gay-so-you-don-t-get-caught-115875-23242635\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sunday Mirror<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>al-Qaeda fanatics in Britain are being taught to avoid detection &mdash; by pretending to be gay.<\/p>\n<p>A new terror training manual tells Islamic extremists to lie about their sexuality if a woman approaches them in case she is a \u201choneytrap\u201d spy sent by security services.<\/p>\n<p>The handbook, which was uncovered by a Sunday Mirror \u00adinvestigation, says: \u201cMany hotels &mdash; especially in busy UK cities &mdash; have women hanging around the lobby areas in order to attract men.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA young beautiful woman may come and talk to you. The first thing you do to protect yourself from such a \u00adsituation is to make dua (prayers) to Allah for \u00adsteadfastness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe second thing is to find an excuse to get away from her that is realistic and sensible, such as you having a girlfriend for the past few years and you are loyal to her or you are \u00adhomosexual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The suggestion is one of many tips in the manual, called Class Notes From The Security and \u00adIntelligence Course.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, if they were drawing their recruits from Pashtun tribesmen, they might not have to <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/01\/29\/this-is-more-than-a-slight-confusion-of-terminology\/\" target=\"_blank\">pretend<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/12\/21\/this-goes-far-beyond-accepting-the-end-of-dadt\/\" target=\"_blank\">much<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A link from Jon, my former virtual landlord, discussing a document that fell into the hands of the Sunday Mirror: al-Qaeda fanatics in Britain are being taught to avoid detection &mdash; by pretending to be gay. A new terror training manual tells Islamic extremists to lie about their sexuality if a woman approaches them in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28],"tags":[387,476,196,213,257],"class_list":["post-10145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-media","tag-alqaeda","tag-espionage","tag-lgbt","tag-newspapers","tag-terrorism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2DD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10145"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10149,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10145\/revisions\/10149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}