{"id":44177,"date":"2014-05-20T16:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/clarion_project_is_media_underplaying_the_islamist_ideology_of_boko_haram\/"},"modified":"2014-05-20T16:00:45","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T16:00:45","slug":"clarion_project_is_media_underplaying_the_islamist_ideology_of_boko_haram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44177","title":{"rendered":"(Clarion Project) Is Media Underplaying the Islamist Ideology of Boko Haram?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Boko Haram leader Abubaker] Shekau declared, \u201cTo the people of the world, everybody should know his status, it is either you are with us mujahideen or you are with the Christians&#8230;.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know what is happening in this world, it is a jihad war against Christians and Christianity. It is a war against Western education, democracy and constitution\u201d\u00a6 This is what I know in Quran. This is a war against Christians and democracy and their constitution, Allah says we should finish them when we get them.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to [Ahmed] Bedier\u2019s assertion that Boko Haram\u2019s ideology \u201ccomes from nowhere,\u201d\u009d it does come from well-established Islamic interpretations, even if most Muslims disagree with those interpretations (a mere 2% of Nigerian Muslims view Boko Haram favorably).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.clarionproject.org\/analysis\/efforts-mount-gloss-over-islamist-ideology-boko-haram\">Read it all<\/a>; GetReligion has all been posting on this angle of the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Boko Haram leader Abubaker] Shekau declared, \u201cTo the people of the world, everybody should know his status, it is either you are with us mujahideen or you are with the Christians&#8230;.\u201d\u009d \u201cWe know what is happening in this world, it<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44177\">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":[39,40,50,42,202,161,426,89,659,327,155,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-africa","category-inter-faith-relations","category-islam","category-media","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-nigeria","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44177","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=44177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}