{"id":44692,"date":"2014-06-20T15:45:13","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T15:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/southeast_asia_anglican_head_questions_najibs_silence_on_seized-bibles_issu\/"},"modified":"2014-06-20T15:45:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T15:45:13","slug":"southeast_asia_anglican_head_questions_najibs_silence_on_seized-bibles_issu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44692","title":{"rendered":"SE Asia Anglican head questions [Malaysian Prime Minister] Najib\u2019s silence on seized-Bibles issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the Anglican Church in Southeast Asia has questioned Datuk Seri Najib Razak\u2019s silence on the seized-Bibles issue and said it appeared to be a political strategy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am inclined to think that he is conveying that the whole charade is not worthy of his comment. To do otherwise is to dignify what is plainly wicked,\u201d\u009d Archbishop Datuk Bolly Lapok said today.<\/p>\n<p>Lapok, who is also chairman of the Association of Churches in Sarawak, also questioned the prime minister&#8217;s refusal to condemn the action of the extreme minority \u201cthat is poisoning inter-religious tolerance\u201d\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe prime minister\u2019s inaction may be politically smart. But is it morally right?\u201d\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.malaysia.msn.com\/tmi\/southeast-asia-anglican-head-questions-najib%E2%80%99s-silence-on-seized-bibles-issue\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head of the Anglican Church in Southeast Asia has questioned Datuk Seri Najib Razak\u2019s silence on the seized-Bibles issue and said it appeared to be a political strategy. \u201cI am inclined to think that he is conveying that the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=44692\">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":[36,39,40,50,74,201,168,114,482,151,108,384,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-asia","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-malaysia","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-the-anglican-church-in-south-east-asia","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44692","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=44692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}