{"id":113,"date":"2003-09-01T11:25:59","date_gmt":"2003-09-01T15:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=113"},"modified":"2003-09-01T11:25:59","modified_gmt":"2003-09-01T15:25:59","slug":"battling-ignorance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Battling ignorance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/news\/959810.asp?0cv=CA01\">LINK<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>35,000 Muslim Americans gathered for a three-day convention of the Islamic Society of North America this weekend.  <\/p>\n<p>On the agenda was the Patriot Act and its expansion that Ashcroft is peddling around the country.  <\/p>\n<p>According to it, the convention concentrated much of its activity discussing ways to improve the image of the Muslim faith.  <\/p>\n<p>And I suppose I find it a condemnation of our society, that these people out of fear for their life and liberties, need to come up with a PR campaign to explain to ignorant Americans that Wahhabism is not representative of the Muslim community.  <\/p>\n<p>One would think people would be knowledgable of such things before they launch shock and awe campaigns on two countries that posed no threat to their security.<\/p>\n<p>This propensity to mindless violence, then, is more inherent in white America than it is elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>On a related note, I meant to wonder in the post about the DOJ crime statistics report, why there wasn&#8217;t mention of the rise in hate crimes against Muslim Americans?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[LINK] 35,000 Muslim Americans gathered for a three-day convention of the Islamic Society of North America this weekend. On the agenda was the Patriot Act and its expansion that Ashcroft is peddling around the country. According to it, the convention &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=113\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-1P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}