{"id":29016,"date":"2011-10-29T02:34:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T02:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/keith_ellison-islam_and_politics_in_the_new_middle_east\/"},"modified":"2011-10-29T02:34:44","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T02:34:44","slug":"keith_ellison-islam_and_politics_in_the_new_middle_east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29016","title":{"rendered":"Keith Ellison&#8211;Islam and politics in the new Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As democratic movements bring down autocratic regimes across the Middle East, Islamic parties are moving into the newly opened political space. Many Americans understandably find this development alarming because the terrorists who attacked us on September 11, 2001 claimed to follow Islamic tenets.<\/p>\n<p>People inside and outside the Middle East worry that women\u2019s rights, minority rights, freedom of expression, and due process might be threatened if Islamic parties take power. (These worries multiply when people hear the phrase \u201cSharia Law.\u201d\u009d) However, it would be wrong to confuse the 9\/11 terrorists with religious parties in the region. Turkey\u2019s ruling Justice and Development Party, for example, is Islamic and is also committed to democracy and the fight against terrorism as our NATO ally&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/guest-voices\/post\/islam-and-politics-in-the-new-middle-east\/2011\/10\/28\/gIQAylvCQM_blog.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As democratic movements bring down autocratic regimes across the Middle East, Islamic parties are moving into the newly opened political space. Many Americans understandably find this development alarming because the terrorists who attacked us on September 11, 2001 claimed to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29016\">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":[39,40,50,42,144,426,203,155,151,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-foreign-relations","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29016","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=29016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}