{"id":32162,"date":"2012-04-25T17:05:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T17:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/samer_libdeh-arab_christians_must_fight_for_recognition_in_new_regimes\/"},"modified":"2012-04-25T17:05:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T17:05:36","slug":"samer_libdeh-arab_christians_must_fight_for_recognition_in_new_regimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32162","title":{"rendered":"Samer Libdeh&#8211;Arab Christians must fight for recognition in new regimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hopes that Arab Christians can enjoy full recognition in their countries&#8217; post-revolution politics appear to have suffered a setback. The political parties that have swept to power in Egypt and Tunisia are attempting to define their nations in narrow ethno-religious terms \u201d\u201c as Islamic with sharia as the principal source of law. In Tunisia, for example, the constitution explicitly prohibits Christians from fielding candidates in the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Attacks against Coptic churches and Christians in Egypt have increased during and since the revolution, and Arab Christians have allegedly been attacked in Syria. This has led to much soul-searching in the Arab Christian community, whose numbers and political influence have dwindled significantly over the past two decades owing to significant bouts of emigration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/apr\/25\/arab-christians-recognition-new-regimes\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopes that Arab Christians can enjoy full recognition in their countries&#8217; post-revolution politics appear to have suffered a setback. The political parties that have swept to power in Egypt and Tunisia are attempting to define their nations in narrow ethno-religious<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=32162\">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":[39,40,50,42,411,560,426,203,659,418,154,155,151,108,556],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-coptic-church","category-egypt","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-orthodox-church","category-other-churches","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-syria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32162","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=32162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}