{"id":122012,"date":"2023-07-12T17:08:13","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T21:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=122012"},"modified":"2023-07-12T18:12:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T22:12:09","slug":"ct-quran-burning-in-sweden-singes-muslim-world-christians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=122012","title":{"rendered":"(CT) Quran Burning in Sweden Singes Muslim-World Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every society\u2014even in the West\u2014defines freedom differently,&#8230;[Wissam al-Saliby, advocacy officer for the WEA] continued, and the WEA must keep to an international minimum as it represents evangelical opinion. Hate speech is a significant societal problem, and the global WEA body endorses the UN-backed Rabat Plan of Action to determine when it crosses the line into incitement to violence.<\/p>\n<p>The Christian minimum, however, is drawn instead from the image of God.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur ability to reject God and his love,\u201d Saliby said, \u201cestablishes the absolute right of freedom of expression, religion, and the changing thereof.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Secure in God\u2019s love themselves, all Christians should condemn Quran burnings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInsulting religions does not reflect our Christian witness,\u201d said Saliby. \u201cOur Lord and Savior is bigger than this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/news\/2023\/july\/sweden-quran-burning-protests-iraq-pakistan-christians.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWhat happened in Sweden was an unwholesome use of the concept of personal freedom,\u201d said one pastor in Baghdad. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RyvtD1F0Nz\">https:\/\/t.co\/RyvtD1F0Nz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Christianity Today (@CTmagazine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CTmagazine\/status\/1679154918161088512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every society\u2014even in the West\u2014defines freedom differently,&#8230;[Wissam al-Saliby, advocacy officer for the WEA] continued, and the WEA must keep to an international minimum as it represents evangelical opinion. Hate speech is a significant societal problem, and the global WEA body<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=122012\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,168,119,426,659,155,108,452],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-globalization","category-islam","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-sweden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122012"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122015,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122012\/revisions\/122015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}