{"id":1028,"date":"2024-08-12T11:46:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T16:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2024-08-12T11:46:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T16:46:56","slug":"islamism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/2024\/08\/12\/islamism\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">In an effort to distinguish between ordinary, civilized Muslims, and those terrorists who commit atrocities in the name of Islam, a new label has been created.  Those murderers are not Muslims; they are Islamists.  I don&#8217;t think this is a valid distinction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">When a Christian extremist commits an atrocity in the name of Christianity, he is not called a &#8220;Christianist.&#8221;  He is called a Christian.  Most of us recognize that such a terrorist doesn&#8217;t represent Christianity.  He is acting on some twisted perversion of Christian teachings that is invalid; but he&#8217;s still called a Christian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Why, then, not say that Muslim terrorists are Muslims?.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an effort to distinguish between ordinary, civilized Muslims, and those terrorists who commit atrocities in the name of Islam, a new label has been created. Those murderers are not Muslims; they are Islamists. I don&#8217;t think this is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/2024\/08\/12\/islamism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1033,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028\/revisions\/1033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/random-musings.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}