{"id":29753,"date":"2011-12-08T16:48:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T16:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/joining_a_dinner_in_a_muslim_brotherhood_home\/"},"modified":"2011-12-08T16:48:08","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T16:48:08","slug":"joining_a_dinner_in_a_muslim_brotherhood_home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29753","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Kristof&#8211;Joining a Dinner in a Muslim Brotherhood Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I raised American concerns that Egypt under the Muslim Brotherhood and the more extremist Salafis might replicate Iran, he was dismissive: \u201cThe experience of Iran will not be repeated in Egypt.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>I think he\u2019s right. Revolutions are often messy, and it took Americans seven years from their victory in the American Revolution at Yorktown to get a ratified Constitution. Indonesia, after its 1998 revolution, felt very much like Egypt does today. It endured upheavals from a fundamentalist Islamic current, yet it pulled through.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/08\/opinion\/kristof-joining-a-dinner-in-a-muslim-brotherhood-home.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I raised American concerns that Egypt under the Muslim Brotherhood and the more extremist Salafis might replicate Iran, he was dismissive: \u201cThe experience of Iran will not be repeated in Egypt.\u201d\u009d I think he\u2019s right. Revolutions are often messy,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29753\">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":[50,42,560,426,203,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-egypt","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-other-faiths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29753","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=29753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}