{"id":26273,"date":"2011-05-20T16:20:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T16:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/yasmine_el_rashidi-egypt_why_are_the_churches_burning\/"},"modified":"2011-05-20T16:20:10","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T16:20:10","slug":"yasmine_el_rashidi-egypt_why_are_the_churches_burning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26273","title":{"rendered":"Yasmine El Rashidi&#8211;Egypt: Why Are the Churches Burning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the end, there does not seem to be any single explanation for the church attack and the other recent incidents of violence. What is clear is that a confluence of forces\u201d\u201dan army seeking the opportunity to consolidate power, remnants of a regime stirring havoc, a cabinet with little authority of its own, radical Islamists aspiring to an Islamic State, and deep-rooted currents of social intolerance that Egypt has long failed to confront\u201d\u201dhave created a situation in which the Copts, among other groups, have become particularly vulnerable. As the economy plummets, financial woes may lead to more instability\u201d\u201dprices have already risen, and on the streets people are complaining they have no work. Reports indicate that many are already resorting to theft to feed their families.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/nyrblog\/2011\/may\/17\/egypt-why-are-churches-burning\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the end, there does not seem to be any single explanation for the church attack and the other recent incidents of violence. What is clear is that a confluence of forces\u201d\u201dan army seeking the opportunity to consolidate power, remnants<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=26273\">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":[39,50,42,411,560,426,203,659,154,155,108,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-coptic-church","category-egypt","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26273","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=26273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}