{"id":4949,"date":"2017-12-16T15:41:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-16T15:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/12\/16\/if-islam-is-a-religion-of-peace\/"},"modified":"2017-12-16T15:41:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-16T15:41:13","slug":"if-islam-is-a-religion-of-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/12\/16\/if-islam-is-a-religion-of-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"If Islam is a Religion of Peace . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">. . . why is it a provocation to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel? Here is how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecatholicthing.org\/2017\/12\/12\/on-moving-the-american-embassy-to-jerusalem\/\">another penetrating article<\/a> by William Kilpatrick ends:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"col-sm-8\">\n<article class=\"pad_v_20 pad_h_40\">\n<div class=\"post-33807 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-10038 category-s5-columns tag-angela-merkel tag-catholic-church tag-catholicism tag-emmanuel-macron tag-islam tag-king-salman tag-on-moving-the-american-embassy-to-jerusalem tag-pope-francis tag-president-trump tag-robert-spencer tag-the-catholic-thing tag-theresa-may tag-william-kilpatrick\" id=\"post-33807\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\" id=\"post-content\">\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">So on the one hand, Muslim believers are ready to commit mayhem over an academic talk or the moving of an embassy, and on the other hand, Christians remain peaceful even though their brethren are being slaughtered and burned alive. How much longer, one wonders, will Church leaders collaborate in the false assertion that Islam and Christianity are equally peaceful faiths?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Religious and secular leaders are caught in a flagrant contradiction. They tell us that Islam is a religion of peace and justice, yet they warn us not to provoke its followers in any way. Don\u2019t recognize Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital. Don\u2019t draw cartoons that might offend Muslims. Don\u2019t wear religious symbols that might provoke them. Cover your women and your statutes. Don\u2019t ring church bells in the vicinity of Muslims. Don\u2019t criticize them for persecuting Christians because, as Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar University told Pope Francis, such criticism is a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frontpagemag.com\/fpm\/262943\/pope-embraces-grand-sheikh-al-azhar-robert-spencer\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">red line<\/a>\u201d that must not be crossed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Complete-Infidels-Speech-Enemies-Guides-ebook\/dp\/B01N9XCE1K\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Just stay quiet and you\u2019ll be okay<\/a>.\u201d That\u2019s what Mohamed Atta told the passengers on American Airlines flight 11 shortly before it flew into the World Trade Center. It wasn\u2019t good advice then. And it\u2019s not good advice now. As Islam expands its global reach, it\u2019s becoming increasingly evident that the \u201cdon\u2019t-do-anything-to-provoke-them\u201d policy isn\u2019t working, and never will.<\/span>&#0160;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. . . why is it a provocation to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel? Here is how another penetrating article by William Kilpatrick ends: So on the one hand, Muslim believers are ready to commit mayhem over an academic talk or the moving of an embassy, and on the other hand, Christians remain &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/12\/16\/if-islam-is-a-religion-of-peace\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If Islam is a Religion of Peace . . .&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}