{"id":31214,"date":"2012-03-07T00:25:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T00:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/christian_century_editorial-a_desecration\/"},"modified":"2012-03-07T00:25:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T00:25:01","slug":"christian_century_editorial-a_desecration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31214","title":{"rendered":"Christian Century Editorial&#8211;A desecration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American Christians would be understandably outraged if they learned of Muslims burning the Bible. Muslims have an even greater reverence for their holy book. Omid Safi, who teaches Islamic studies at the University of North Carolina, notes that Muslims look at the Qur&#8217;an the way Christians look at Jesus. &#8220;In an Islamic universe . . . the word becomes not a person, but a book,&#8221; he says. &#8220;For a Muslim to see the Qur&#8217;an burnt . . . it would look and feel like someone burning Jesus, or a crucifix.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Christians should at least understand and respect the way Muslims look at the Qur&#8217;an. Most Muslims have a higher regard for the Bible than most Christians have for the Qur&#8217;an. It is unlikely that a Muslim would ever burn a Bible.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiancentury.org\/article\/2012-03\/desecration\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American Christians would be understandably outraged if they learned of Muslims burning the Bible. Muslims have an even greater reverence for their holy book. Omid Safi, who teaches Islamic studies at the University of North Carolina, notes that Muslims look<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31214\">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":[40,50,42,503,209,201,143,144,161,426,155,151,150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-afghanistan","category-americau-s-a","category-asia","category-defense-national-security-military","category-foreign-relations","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-war-in-afghanistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31214","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=31214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}