{"id":70523,"date":"2025-01-15T18:37:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T18:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=70523"},"modified":"2025-01-15T18:37:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T18:37:27","slug":"nigeria-atheist-defiant-after-leaving-jail-in-high-profile-blasphemy-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/15\/nigeria-atheist-defiant-after-leaving-jail-in-high-profile-blasphemy-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria atheist defiant after leaving jail in high-profile blasphemy case"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1xfJt8.img?w=768&amp;h=512&amp;m=6&amp;x=305&amp;y=132&amp;s=87&amp;d=87\" alt=\"Mubarak Bala, a Nigerian atheist, was charged with blasphemy in a high-profile case\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite four years in prison for blasphemy, Mubarak Bala defends his atheist beliefs but says he keeps a low profile now in the face of threats in his mostly conservative Muslim region of Nigeria.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/nigeria-atheist-defiant-after-leaving-jail-in-high-profile-blasphemy-case\/ar-AA1xfEnj?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=d54f8274e3894d789432d88f6efda213&amp;ei=21\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Despite four years in prison for blasphemy, Mubarak Bala defends his atheist beliefs but says he keeps a low profile now in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Bala-Murbarak.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70525,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70523\/revisions\/70525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}