{"id":54382,"date":"2016-05-16T15:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/w_post_al-qaeda_affiliates_are_threatening_west_africas_most_peaceful_citie\/"},"modified":"2016-05-16T15:00:25","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:00:25","slug":"w_post_al-qaeda_affiliates_are_threatening_west_africas_most_peaceful_citie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54382","title":{"rendered":"(W Post) Al-Qaeda affiliates are threatening West Africa\u2019s most peaceful cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAKAR, Senegal \u201d\u201d In a city where nightclubs and mosques coexist peacefully, Islamist violence long felt like a foreign problem \u201d\u201d something residents watched on news clips from the Middle East or other parts of \u00c2\u00adAfrica.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just didn\u2019t worry very much about it,\u201d\u009d said Abdullaye Diene, the deputy imam of the country\u2019s largest mosque. \u201cHere you can spend your nights drinking at the disco and then shake the hand of the imam.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>But Senegal and its neighbors are facing a new threat from extremists moving far from their traditional strongholds in northwest Africa. Since November, militant groups have killed dozens of people in assaults on hotels, cafes and a beachside resort in West Africa, passing through porous borders with impunity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/africa\/al-qaeda-affiliates-are-threatening-west-africas-most-peaceful-cities\/2016\/05\/15\/4210ecf2-1643-11e6-971a-dadf9ab18869_story.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAKAR, Senegal \u201d\u201d In a city where nightclubs and mosques coexist peacefully, Islamist violence long felt like a foreign problem \u201d\u201d something residents watched on news clips from the Middle East or other parts of \u00c2\u00adAfrica. \u201cWe just didn\u2019t worry<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54382\">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":[39,40,50,202,143,168,144,151,552,148,34,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-africa","category-defense-national-security-military","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-politics-in-general","category-senegal","category-terrorism","category-theology","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54382","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=54382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}