{"id":51169,"date":"2015-08-11T15:45:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T15:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/csm_isis_recruiters_cause_anguish_in_conservative_kurdish_town\/"},"modified":"2015-08-11T15:45:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T15:45:56","slug":"csm_isis_recruiters_cause_anguish_in_conservative_kurdish_town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51169","title":{"rendered":"(CSM) ISIS recruiters cause anguish in conservative Kurdish town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White-on-black Islamic calligraphy still adorns the establishment that the Islamic State used to recruit fighters and bombers in this town in southeast Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>Known as the Islamic Tea House, it was a hub for bearded men in tunics, who lured young men for explosives training in Syria before complaints from the community led police to shut it down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t exactly a tea house, but they did drink tea among themselves,\u201d\u009d says Mahmoud Tunc, a chatty boy with a whisper of a mustache who works at a tiny tea shop across the street. \u201cThey were a carbon copy of the IS guys you see on social media. Even if you put a Quran in front of them, they wouldn\u2019t read it. They would just parrot their stupid ideology. They were not harmful to us but they were very harmful to Adiyaman and Islam.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/World\/Middle-East\/2015\/0810\/Islamic-State-recruiters-cause-anguish-in-conservative-Kurdish-town\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White-on-black Islamic calligraphy still adorns the establishment that the Islamic State used to recruit fighters and bombers in this town in southeast Turkey. Known as the Islamic Tea House, it was a hub for bearded men in tunics, who lured<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51169\">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":[39,40,50,42,143,200,144,426,155,151,108,453,124,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-defense-national-security-military","category-europe","category-foreign-relations","category-islam","category-other-faiths","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-turkey","category-violence","category-young-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51169","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=51169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}