{"id":47646,"date":"2014-12-31T03:20:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T03:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/jerusalem_post_benjamin_weinthal-the_religious_cleansing_of_middle_east_ch\/"},"modified":"2014-12-31T03:20:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T03:20:33","slug":"jerusalem_post_benjamin_weinthal-the_religious_cleansing_of_middle_east_ch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47646","title":{"rendered":"(Jerusalem Post) Benjamin Weinthal&#8211;The religious cleansing of Middle East Christians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-Christian violence in 2014 saw a transformation from under-told news coverage, to routine reports of radical Islamists seeking to obliterate Christianity\u2019s presence.<\/p>\n<p>Religious freedom experts captured the dire situation of Middle Eastern Christians in comments on Friday to The Jerusalem Post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Persecution no longer adequately describes the treatment of Christians in a growing number of Muslim areas.<\/p>\n<p><b>Religious cleansing, a type of cultural genocide, which is a crime against humanity, is the more accurate description.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/page.aspx?pageid=7&#038;articleid=385924\">Read it all<\/a> (my emphasis).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anti-Christian violence in 2014 saw a transformation from under-told news coverage, to routine reports of radical Islamists seeking to obliterate Christianity\u2019s presence. Religious freedom experts captured the dire situation of Middle Eastern Christians in comments on Friday to The Jerusalem<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47646\">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":[48,39,40,50,42,575,187,143,168,144,426,203,659,154,155,151,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-christmas","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-islam","category-middle-east","category-muslim-christian-relations","category-other-churches","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\/47646","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=47646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}