{"id":24598,"date":"2011-02-17T18:00:01","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T18:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/national_post_ex-guitarist_now_preaches_against_music\/"},"modified":"2011-02-17T18:00:01","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T18:00:01","slug":"national_post_ex-guitarist_now_preaches_against_music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24598","title":{"rendered":"(National Post) Ex-guitarist now preaches against music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bilal Philips was once a guitar god. Now he is trying to convince Muslims that God doesn&#8217;t want them listening to guitars.<\/p>\n<p>A Saudi-trained Canadian, Mr. Philips is among a small group of lecturers who preach against most forms of music &#8212; a controversial prohibition that surfaced in Manitoba recently, where a dozen Muslim families want to pull their children from music class.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A heart filled with music will not have room for God&#8217;s words,&#8221; he writes in his bookContemporary Issues, which also defends child marriages, wife beating, polygamy and killing apostates while calling homosexuality &#8220;evil and dangerous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/todays-paper\/guitarist+preaches+against+music\/4291640\/story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bilal Philips was once a guitar god. Now he is trying to convince Muslims that God doesn&#8217;t want them listening to guitars. A Saudi-trained Canadian, Mr. Philips is among a small group of lecturers who preach against most forms of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24598\">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":[39,50,42,207,426,132,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-canada","category-islam","category-music","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24598","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=24598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}