{"id":40280,"date":"2013-09-28T19:00:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T19:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/washington_post_op-ed_colbert_king_christians_in_the_crosshairs\/"},"modified":"2013-09-28T19:00:58","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T19:00:58","slug":"washington_post_op-ed_colbert_king_christians_in_the_crosshairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40280","title":{"rendered":"(Washington Post Op-ed) Colbert King: Christians in the Crosshairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hiding the Christian name on his ID with his thumb, Joshua Hakim approached the gunmen and showed them the plastic card. \u201cThey told me to go. Then an Indian man came forward, and they said, \u201d\u02dcWhat is the name of Muhammad\u2019s mother?\u2019 When he couldn\u2019t answer they just shot him.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the way it went inside the Westgate Premier Shopping Mall in Nairobi last Saturday. If you said when asked that you were Muslim, you were let go. If you answered no, you stayed. And maybe died.<\/p>\n<p>More than 60 patrons in that upscale mall in Kenya\u2019s capital breathed their last that day, shot dead by Islamist militants from Somalia who call themselves al-Shabab. The massacre was not al-Shabab\u2019s first attack on non-Muslims&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/colbert-king-attacks-on-christians-are-being-met-with-indifference\/2013\/09\/27\/d18e5162-270d-11e3-b75d-5b7f66349852_story.html?hpid=z3\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiding the Christian name on his ID with his thumb, Joshua Hakim approached the gunmen and showed them the plastic card. \u201cThey told me to go. Then an Indian man came forward, and they said, \u201d\u02dcWhat is the name of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=40280\">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":[39,40,42,168,144,119,161,426,114,659,155,151,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-globalization","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-law-legal-issues","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40280","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=40280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}