{"id":195,"date":"2006-09-24T04:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2006\/09\/24\/195\/"},"modified":"2006-09-24T04:20:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-24T04:20:00","slug":"195","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2006\/09\/24\/195\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a column in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/09\/21\/AR2006092101513_pf.html\">Washington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today&#8217;s Islamists seem to have not even a sense of irony. They fail to see the richness of the following sequence. The pope makes a reference to a 14th-century Byzantine emperor&#8217;s remark about Islam imposing itself by the sword, and to protest this linking of Islam and violence:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 In the West Bank and Gaza, Muslims attack seven churches.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 In London, the ever-dependable radical Anjem Choudary tells demonstrators at Westminster Cathedral that the pope is now condemned to death.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 In Mogadishu, Somali religious leader Abubukar Hassan Malin calls on Muslims to &#8220;hunt down&#8221; the pope. The pope not being quite at hand, they do the next best thing: shoot dead, execution-style, an Italian nun who worked in a children&#8217;s hospital.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How dare you say Islam is a violent religion? I&#8217;ll kill you for it&#8221; is not exactly the best way to go about refuting the charge. But of course, refuting is not the point here. The point is intimidation.<\/p>\n<p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The whole article is well worth reading.<\/p>\n<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-15.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a column in the Washington Post: Today&#8217;s Islamists seem to have not even a sense of irony. They fail to see the richness of the following sequence. The pope makes a reference to a 14th-century Byzantine emperor&#8217;s remark about &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/2006\/09\/24\/195\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nettelhorst.com\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}