{"id":50872,"date":"2015-07-18T18:59:21","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T18:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/at_a_tennessee_grief_mixes_with_fear_of_revenge\/"},"modified":"2015-07-18T18:59:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-18T18:59:21","slug":"at_a_tennessee_grief_mixes_with_fear_of_revenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50872","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) At a Tennessee Mosque, Grief Mixes With Fear of Revenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just beyond a massive strip mall, with its Best Buy and Hobby Lobby, Abdul Baasit, the imam at the Islamic Society of Greater Chattanooga, found himself preaching on Friday about a nightmare.<\/p>\n<p>It was Eid al-Fitr, at the end of Ramadan, normally a time of gift-giving and carnival celebration. But the party that had been planned was canceled: A man who had attended prayer services at the center\u2019s mosque killed four Marines on Thursday. And Mr. Baasit, 48, was trying to help Chattanooga\u2019s Muslim faithful cope with their grief over the deaths, and their fear of reprisal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou do not want what is not right to be associated with Islam,\u201d\u009d Mr. Baasit, a native of Ghana, said in lilting, heavily accented English. \u201cAnd yet it is happening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/18\/us\/at-chattanooga-mosque-grief-mixes-with-fear-of-revenge.html?smid=nytcore-ipad-share&#038;smprod=nytcore-ipad&#038;_r=0\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just beyond a massive strip mall, with its Best Buy and Hobby Lobby, Abdul Baasit, the imam at the Islamic Society of Greater Chattanooga, found himself preaching on Friday about a nightmare. It was Eid al-Fitr, at the end of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=50872\">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":[48,39,42,426,155,184,439,108,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-parish-ministry","category-preaching-homiletics","category-religion-culture","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50872","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=50872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}