{"id":27796,"date":"2011-08-13T03:02:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T03:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/william_oddie-has_multiculturalism_helped_to_tear_our_society_apart\/"},"modified":"2011-08-13T03:02:29","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T03:02:29","slug":"william_oddie-has_multiculturalism_helped_to_tear_our_society_apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27796","title":{"rendered":"William Oddie&#8211;Has multiculturalism helped to tear our society apart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The least that can be said is that there are Islamic values which are recognisable by Christians and compatible with those of a Christian culture. This poses an interesting question, directly relevant to the lessons we need to learn from all this. Is Tariq Jahan\u2019s noble behaviour a victory for multiculturalism? Or is it the direct opposite, a refutation of it, a demonstration that it is only by appealing to common values that we can forge a decent society? Melanie Phillips  <a href=\"http:\/\/melaniephillips.com\/dogma-and-decency\">yesterday argued strongly<\/a> and to me persuasively that multiculturalism has driven us all apart&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicherald.co.uk\/commentandblogs\/2011\/08\/12\/has-multiculturalism-helped-to-tear-our-society-apart-and-was-tariq-jahan%E2%80%99s-noble-behaviour-an-implicit-rejection-of-it-an-appeal-to-common-values\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The least that can be said is that there are Islamic values which are recognisable by Christians and compatible with those of a Christian culture. This poses an interesting question, directly relevant to the lessons we need to learn from<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=27796\">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":[39,50,42,111,199,155,117,108,424,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-education","category-england-uk","category-other-faiths","category-philosophy","category-religion-culture","category-secularism","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27796","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=27796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}