{"id":2526,"date":"2010-08-10T01:36:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T08:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2526"},"modified":"2010-08-10T01:37:57","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T08:37:57","slug":"republican-jihad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/10\/republican-jihad\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Jihad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republican pandering to their base has unleashed some of the most hateful outbursts I have seen, targeted at Muslims.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"10jihad\"<\/a><\/p>\n

About a dozen right-wing Christians, carrying placards and yelling “Islam is a lie<\/strong>,” angrily confronted worshippers outside a Fairfield Avenue mosque Friday.<\/p>\n

“Jesus hates Muslims<\/strong>,” they screamed at worshippers arriving at the Masjid An-Noor mosque to prepare for the holy week of Ramadan. One protester shoved a placard at a group of young children leaving the mosque. “Murderer<\/strong>s,” he shouted.<\/p>\n

Police arrived on the scene to separate the groups, but said no arrests were made.<\/p>\n

Flip Benham, of Dallas, Texas, organizer of the protest, was yelling at the worshipers with a bullhorn.<\/p>\n

“This is a war in America and we are taking it to the mosques around the country<\/strong>,” he said\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Connecticut Post<\/a>><\/p>\n

As an American, I consider such behavior at odds with everything this nation represents.\u00a0 This Republican jihad violated the right of Muslims to worship in this country free from harassment.\u00a0 From the standpoint of rights, all religions are equal.\u00a0 Muslims have as much right to worship as Christians, or as any other faith.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a Christian, I personally believe that God honors the faith of an authentic Muslim, who lives in peace, tolerance and goodwill, far more than he honors the hatred and bigotry of these modern day Pharisees and Sadducees.\u00a0 The Republican Taliban gives authentic Christians a bad name.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republican pandering to their base has unleashed some of the most hateful outbursts I have seen, targeted at Muslims. About a dozen right-wing Christians, carrying placards and yelling “Islam is a lie,” angrily confronted worshippers outside a Fairfield Avenue mosque Friday. “Jesus hates Muslims,” they screamed at worshippers arriving at the Masjid An-Noor mosque to […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-religion","category-5-id","category-47-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}