{"id":51714,"date":"2015-09-21T15:00:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/telegraph_nothing_has_changed_in_25_years_to_ease_my_concerns_about_islam\/"},"modified":"2015-09-21T15:00:22","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T15:00:22","slug":"telegraph_nothing_has_changed_in_25_years_to_ease_my_concerns_about_islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51714","title":{"rendered":"(Telegraph) Charles Moore-Nothing has changed in 25 years to ease my concerns about Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That name itself is the fiercest, most raw expression of the problem which was already bothering me. We would not, in modern times, want to live in a country called \u201cChristian State\u201d\u009d, and few Christians would suggest it. Most Muslims, luckily, do not admire the bloodthirsty regime trying to plant its flag in the most troubled corners of the Middle East, but significant numbers do see a faith-run, faith-defined state as the ultimate goal in this life. They therefore do not believe in secular law, freedom, pluralism or, except in limited form, the rights of unbelievers.<\/p>\n<p>So the sad fact is that nothing in the past quarter-century has undermined the basic argument \u201d\u201c as opposed to my tasteless expression of it \u201d\u201c which I put forward then. Indeed, the opposite.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/religion\/11859029\/Nothing-has-changed-in-25-years-toease-my-concerns-about-Islam.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That name itself is the fiercest, most raw expression of the problem which was already bothering me. We would not, in modern times, want to live in a country called \u201cChristian State\u201d\u009d, and few Christians would suggest it. Most Muslims,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=51714\">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":[39,40,42,168,133,426,155,151,108,148,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-religion-news-commentary","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-history","category-islam","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\/51714","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=51714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}