{"id":15151,"date":"2011-02-11T13:41:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T19:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15151"},"modified":"2011-02-11T13:41:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T19:41:50","slug":"slavoj-zizek-for-egypt-this-is-the-miracle-of-tahrir-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15151","title":{"rendered":"Slavoj \u017di\u017eek: For Egypt, this is the miracle of Tahrir Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>There is no room for compromise. Either the entire Mubarak edifice falls, or the uprising is betrayed<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/profile\/slavojzizek\">Slavoj \u017di\u017eek<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\">guardian.co.uk<\/a><br \/>\nThursday 10 February 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The most sublime moment occurred when <a href=\"http:\/\/religion.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/02\/10\/my-take-why-egypts-christians-are-excited-but-nervous\/\">Muslims and Coptic Christians<\/a> engaged in common prayer on Cairo&#8217;s Tahrir Square, chanting &#8220;We are  one!&#8221; \u2013 providing the best answer to the sectarian religious violence.  Those neocons who criticise multiculturalism on behalf of the universal  values of freedom and democracy are now confronting their moment of  truth: you want universal freedom and democracy? This is what people  demand in Egypt, so why are the neocons uneasy? Is it because the  protesters in Egypt mention freedom and dignity in the same breath as  social and economic justice?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/global\/2011\/feb\/10\/egypt-miracle-tahrir-square\">Click here to read &#8220;For Egypt, this is the miracle of Tahrir Square&#8221; by Slavoj \u017di\u017eek<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no room for compromise. Either the entire Mubarak edifice falls, or the uprising is betrayed Slavoj \u017di\u017eek guardian.co.uk Thursday 10 February 2011 The most sublime moment occurred when Muslims and Coptic Christians engaged in common prayer on Cairo&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=15151\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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-15151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3Wn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15151","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=15151"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15155,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15151\/revisions\/15155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}