{"id":61186,"date":"2017-07-06T13:00:44","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T17:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=61186"},"modified":"2017-07-06T17:51:14","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T21:51:14","slug":"npr-how-to-be-a-muslim-author-on-being-a-spokesperson-for-his-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=61186","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) &#8216;How To Be A Muslim&#8217; Author On Being A Spokesperson For His Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in New England as a first-generation Pakistani-American, Haroon Moghul was taught that practicing his Islamic faith would make life his better. What he didn&#8217;t anticipate was how challenging it could be to be Muslim in America.<\/p>\n<p>In 2001, Moghul was the student leader of New York University&#8217;s Islamic Center when the Sept. 11 attacks occurred. Shortly thereafter, he was called upon to be a spokesperson for the Muslim community in New York \u2014 a role he describes as both a &#8220;civic responsibility&#8221; and a &#8220;tremendous burden.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really hard,&#8221; he says. &#8220;Being Muslim can be a limiting factor where you&#8217;re shackled to what people do in the name of Islam in different parts of the world, including here in the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2017\/07\/06\/535757103\/how-to-be-a-muslim-author-on-being-a-spokesperson-for-his-faith\">Read (or listen to) it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growing up in New England as a first-generation Pakistani-American, Haroon Moghul was taught that practicing his Islamic faith would make life his better. What he didn&#8217;t anticipate was how challenging it could be to be Muslim in America. In 2001,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=61186\">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":[209,92,426,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-books","category-islam","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61186","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=61186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61188,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61186\/revisions\/61188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}