{"id":284,"date":"2006-04-14T08:20:56","date_gmt":"2006-04-14T13:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=284"},"modified":"2006-04-14T08:20:56","modified_gmt":"2006-04-14T13:20:56","slug":"apologists-for-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=284","title":{"rendered":"Apologists for Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I posted <a href='http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=282'>Dan Simmons&#8217;s<br \/>\nMessage From The Future<\/a>, I&#8217;ve had a couple of Muslims show up on this<br \/>\nblog protesting that I&#8217;ve got it all wrong, that Islam is a peaceful<br \/>\nand tolerant religion and Islamic terror is an aberration not sanctioned<br \/>\nby the Koran.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a challenge to all you apologists for Islam: stand up in<br \/>\nyour mosque and declaim, loudly, that religious violence is an<br \/>\nabomination against Allah &mdash; that those who use terror in a<br \/>\nprogram to restore the Caliphate, those who would execute ex-Muslims<br \/>\nwho convert to any other religion, those who would condone &#8216;honor<br \/>\nkilling&#8217;, and those who incite hatred against Jews and other Peoples<br \/>\nof the Book have fallen from the Narrow Way and will burn in hell with<br \/>\nthe sons of Iblis.<\/p>\n<p>If you are unwilling to do this for religious reasons, or fear to<br \/>\ndo it because of the reaction of your fellow Muslims, then <em>shut the<br \/>\nfuck up<\/em> about your so-called &#8216;religion of peace&#8217;, because you<br \/>\nare a liar and a hypocrite.<\/p>\n<p>That is all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I posted Dan Simmons&#8217;s Message From The Future, I&#8217;ve had a couple of Muslims show up on this blog protesting that I&#8217;ve got it all wrong, that Islam is a peaceful and tolerant religion and Islamic terror is an aberration not sanctioned by the Koran. Here&#8217;s a challenge to all you apologists for Islam:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=284\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apologists for Islam<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}