{"id":438,"date":"2008-01-10T22:20:11","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T03:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/01\/10\/islam\/"},"modified":"2008-01-10T22:20:11","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T03:20:11","slug":"islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/01\/10\/islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I ran into in the Obama campaign was persistent rumors that he was a Muslim. I always thought it was pretty dumb that people were actually convinced of this, but it took me a while to realize that the real problem is what they don&#8217;t say, but surely think: they think that he&#8217;s Muslim <em>and therefore a bad person<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I wish more people were at least marginally familiar with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Islam\">Islam<\/a>. It&#8217;s a peaceful religion with a few fundamentalist nutjobs who interpret their scriptures in bizarre ways. Really not unlike Christianity.<\/p>\n<p>There are two major sects, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sunni_Islam\">Sunnis<\/a>, with 85% of the Muslim population, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shia_Islam\">Shi&#8217;a<\/a>, accounting for around 15%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jihad\">Jihad<\/a> itself is an interesting term. Thought to refer to &#8220;holy war,&#8221; it&#8217;s actually an ambiguous term referring to anything from holy war to a &#8220;struggle to improve one&#8217;s self and\/or society&#8221; (per Wikipedia). And even when it does refer to holy war, there are lots of restrictions: it&#8217;s not supposed to include non-combatants, for example.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know half as much as I&#8217;d like to about Islam, giving its increasing importance in the world. But I do wish that more people would at least stop labeling all Muslims as terrorists.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One thing I ran into in the Obama campaign was persistent rumors that he was a Muslim. I always thought it was pretty dumb that people were actually convinced of this, but it took me a while to realize that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2008\/01\/10\/islam\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,21,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living","category-politics","category-rants-raves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}