{"id":6715,"date":"2016-01-20T06:53:46","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T06:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/01\/20\/religion-of-peace-or-religion-of-pieces-islamists-destroy-christian-monastery\/"},"modified":"2016-01-20T06:53:46","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T06:53:46","slug":"religion-of-peace-or-religion-of-pieces-islamists-destroy-christian-monastery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/01\/20\/religion-of-peace-or-religion-of-pieces-islamists-destroy-christian-monastery\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion of Peace or Religion of Pieces?  Islamists Destroy Christian Monastery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/world\/articles\/2016-01-20\/only-on-ap-oldest-christian-monastery-in-iraq-is-razed\">has been reduced to a field of rubble <\/a>by the Islamic State&#39;s relentless destruction of ancient cultural sites. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The monastery, called Dair Mar Elia, is named for the Assyrian Christian monk \u2014 St. Elijah \u2014 who built it between 582 and 590 A.C. It was a holy site for Iraqi Christians for centuries, part of the Mideast&#39;s Chaldean Catholic community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">In 1743, tragedy struck when as many as 150 monks who refused to convert to Islam were massacred under orders of a Persian general, and the monastery was damaged. For the next two centuries it remained a place of pilgrimage, even after it was incorporated into an Iraqi military training base and later a U.S. base.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">But of course, Islam is the religion of peace and no true Muslim would have been involved in such destruction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">See my <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2015\/01\/the-no-true-scotsman-or-no-true-muslim-fallacy.html\">The No True Muslim Fallacy<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oldest Christian monastery in Iraq has been reduced to a field of rubble by the Islamic State&#39;s relentless destruction of ancient cultural sites. The monastery, called Dair Mar Elia, is named for the Assyrian Christian monk \u2014 St. Elijah \u2014 who built it between 582 and 590 A.C. It was a holy site for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/01\/20\/religion-of-peace-or-religion-of-pieces-islamists-destroy-christian-monastery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Religion of Peace or Religion of Pieces?  Islamists Destroy Christian Monastery&#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":[180,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west","category-islamism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715","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=6715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}