{"id":40311,"date":"2019-07-31T12:24:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T12:24:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40311"},"modified":"2019-07-31T12:24:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T12:24:49","slug":"bands-show-canceled-to-prevent-bloodshed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40311","title":{"rendered":"Band&#8217;s show canceled to &#8216;prevent bloodshed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Beirut, Lebanon  (CNN)<\/cite>An international music festival in <a href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/2013\/09\/03\/world\/meast\/lebanon-fast-facts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Lebanon<\/a> has dropped a popular local band from its line-up, following threats of violence on social media and pressure from Christian groups over lyrics they labeled as &#8220;blasphemous.&#8221; <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/2017\/11\/16\/us\/mashrou-leila-human-rights-cnntv\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mashrou&#8217; Leila<\/a>&#8216;s performance at the Byblos International Festival, scheduled for August 9, was canceled &#8220;to prevent bloodshed and maintain peace and security,&#8221; event organizers said in a statement on Tuesday. The group has performed at the festival twice before, in 2010 and 2016. <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Critics say the cancellation is a worrying development for freedom of expression in Lebanon.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beirut, Lebanon (CNN)An international music festival in Lebanon has dropped a popular local band from its line-up, following threats of violence on social media and pressure from Christian groups over lyrics they labeled as &#8220;blasphemous.&#8221; Mashrou&#8217; Leila&#8217;s performance at the Byblos International Festival, scheduled for August 9, was canceled &#8220;to prevent bloodshed and maintain peace&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}