{"id":17178,"date":"2010-01-09T04:57:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T04:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/cnn-malaysia_churches_firebombed_amid_allah_dispute\/"},"modified":"2010-01-09T04:57:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T04:57:15","slug":"cnn-malaysia_churches_firebombed_amid_allah_dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17178","title":{"rendered":"CNN&#8211;Malaysia: Churches firebombed amid Allah dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Attackers firebombed three churches in the southeast Asian nation of Malaysia overnight, assaults that come amid widespread Muslim ire over a court ruling that allowed Christians to use the word Allah as a term for God.<\/p>\n<p>Malaysian news reports said no casualties have been reported, and police have promised to step up security for churches and other places of worship.<\/p>\n<p>But the acts stirred unease in the diverse society &#8212; where 60 percent of the people are Muslim, 19 percent are Buddhist, 9 percent are Christian and 6 percent are Hindu.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We regret the irresponsible actions of certain extremist elements for the recent spate of firebombs thrown into church premises. These actions display their immaturity and intolerance toward others within a multi-racial society,&#8221; the National Evangelical Christian Fellowship of Malaysia said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/01\/08\/malaysia.churches.attacked\"\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attackers firebombed three churches in the southeast Asian nation of Malaysia overnight, assaults that come amid widespread Muslim ire over a court ruling that allowed Christians to use the word Allah as a term for God. Malaysian news reports said<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=17178\">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":[39,50,42,201,419,161,426,482,154,155,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-asia","category-evangelicals","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-malaysia","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17178","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=17178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}