{"id":1616,"date":"2006-09-22T04:31:06","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T08:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2006-09-22T04:31:06","modified_gmt":"2006-09-22T08:31:06","slug":"reason-overboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1616","title":{"rendered":"Reason Overboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/amywelborn.typepad.com\/openbook\/2006\/09\/needed_a_sense_.html\">Needed: A sense of irony and a clue<\/a> &#8211; Amy Welborn notes that burning the Pope in effigy &#8220;is not an effective way to argue against someone who has questioned your religion&#8217;s relationship to violence.&#8221; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ratzingerfanclub.com\/blog\/\">via<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I find it ironic when people denigrate the comprehension skills of Muslims who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amin.org\/look\/amin\/en.tpl?IdLanguage=1&#038;IdPublication=7&#038;NrArticle=37129&#038;NrIssue=1&#038;NrSection=3\">were offended<\/a> by what they surmised to be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aloha.net\/~mikesch\/burn-heretics.htm\">burning of Mohammed<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Execution_by_burning\">at the media stake<\/a>, whilst they <a href=\"http:\/\/amywelborn.typepad.com\/openbook\/2006\/09\/the_popes_censo.html#comments\">simultaneously praise<\/a> Benedict for not being &#8220;politically correct.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Clue:  You can&#8217;t have it both ways.  If you believe Ratzinger intended to condemn all of Islam  you cannot ridicule Muslims who agree with your assessment.<\/p>\n<p>If the infallible pontif purged his own house of the practitioners of liberation theology the Vatican would collapse.  Why should Muslims be better Catholics than his followers have yet to realise?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Needed: A sense of irony and a clue &#8211; Amy Welborn notes that burning the Pope in effigy &#8220;is not an effective way to argue against someone who has questioned your religion&#8217;s relationship to violence.&#8221; (via) I find it ironic &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=1616\">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-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-q4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","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=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}