{"id":48669,"date":"2015-03-04T00:28:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T00:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_a_german_muslim_asks_his_compatriots_what_do_you_want_to_know\/"},"modified":"2015-03-04T00:28:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T00:28:32","slug":"npr_a_german_muslim_asks_his_compatriots_what_do_you_want_to_know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48669","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) A German Muslim Asks His Compatriots: &#39;What Do You Want To Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sadiqu al-Mousllie sees humor as a good way to fight growing anti-Islam sentiment in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>He lives in Braunschweig, in western Germany. Earlier this month, he decided to go downtown and hold up a sign that read, &#8220;I am a Moslem. What would you like to know?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is a bridge of communication,&#8221; the Syrian-born German says. &#8220;Some people dared to ask, some others not, so we went to them and give them some chocolate and a say of our prophet to know what Muslims are thinking about.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mousllie, 44, says he hopes to do it every other week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/parallels\/2015\/02\/27\/389521933\/a-german-muslim-asks-his-compatriots-what-do-you-want-to-know\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadiqu al-Mousllie sees humor as a good way to fight growing anti-Islam sentiment in Germany. He lives in Braunschweig, in western Germany. Earlier this month, he decided to go downtown and hold up a sign that read, &#8220;I am a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48669\">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":[39,50,42,200,478,426,155,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-europe","category-germany","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48669","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=48669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}