{"id":39992,"date":"2013-09-10T17:28:40","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T17:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times_egypt_islamist_party_proves_savvy_pragmatic_analysts_say\/"},"modified":"2013-09-10T17:28:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T17:28:40","slug":"la_times_egypt_islamist_party_proves_savvy_pragmatic_analysts_say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39992","title":{"rendered":"(LA Times) Egypt Islamist party proves savvy, pragmatic, analysts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the mid-August day that Egyptian security forces killed hundreds of Islamist protesters, throwing the country into deeper turmoil, the ultraconservative religious Salafist Nour Party released a statement positioning itself as the sole voice of reason.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We warned a long time ago against the danger of bloodshed and against mobilization and counter-mobilization,&#8221; the group said.<\/p>\n<p>Nour called on both the nation&#8217;s military rulers and the Muslim Brotherhood that had been ousted from power to stop the violence, saying that the only option for peace was a political solution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/world\/la-fg-egypt-islamists-20130908,0,2590370.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the mid-August day that Egyptian security forces killed hundreds of Islamist protesters, throwing the country into deeper turmoil, the ultraconservative religious Salafist Nour Party released a statement positioning itself as the sole voice of reason. &#8220;We warned a long<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=39992\">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":[39,40,50,42,560,168,144,426,203,659,155,151,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-egypt","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39992","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=39992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}