{"id":2536,"date":"2014-11-30T11:01:20","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T11:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astraea.net\/blog\/?p=2536"},"modified":"2014-11-30T11:01:20","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T11:01:20","slug":"ignorance-bigotry-islam-christianity-a-wasteful-formula-of-terror-pain-and-suffering-that-we-dont-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/ignorance-bigotry-islam-christianity-a-wasteful-formula-of-terror-pain-and-suffering-that-we-dont-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignorance, bigotry, Islam, Christianity &#8211; a wasteful formula of terror, pain and suffering that we don&#8217;t need."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN pushed an interview with Reza Aslan which helped show how ignorant the media treatment of culture is.\u00a0\u00a0 His commendably calm response to the interview&#8217;s thoughtlessness elucidated many of the issues that raise political tensions needlessly.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an extract:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\" data-reactid=\".0.1:3:1:$comment10152410206006167_10152411071106167:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\" data-reactid=\".0.1:3:1:$comment10152410206006167_10152411071106167:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0\"><span data-reactid=\".0.1:3:1:$comment10152410206006167_10152411071106167:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0\"><span data-reactid=\".0.1:3:1:$comment10152410206006167_10152411071106167:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$0:0\">Female Genital Mutilation is NOT a &#8220;Muslim&#8221; problem &#8211; its a central African problem. Eritrea has a 90% FGM rate &#8211; and is a CHRISTIAN country, Ethipia has a 70% FGM rate and is also a Christian country.<\/span><br data-reactid=\".0.1:3:1:$comment10152410206006167_10152411071106167:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$1:0\" \/><br data-reactid=\".0.1:3:1:$comment10152410206006167_10152411071106167:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$3:0\" \/><span data-reactid=\".0.1:3:1:$comment10152410206006167_10152411071106167:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.0.$end:0:$4:0\">The Saudis, our allies, won&#8217;t let their women dri<\/span><\/span><span data-reactid=\".0.1:3:1:$comment10152410206006167_10152411071106167:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3\"><span data-reactid=\".0.1:3:1:$comment10152410206006167_10152411071106167:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0\"><span data-reactid=\".0.1:3:1:$comment10152410206006167_10152411071106167:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$0:0\">ve.<\/span><br data-reactid=\".0.1:3:1:$comment10152410206006167_10152411071106167:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$1:0\" \/><br data-reactid=\".0.1:3:1:$comment10152410206006167_10152411071106167:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$3:0\" \/><span data-reactid=\".0.1:3:1:$comment10152410206006167_10152411071106167:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$4:0\">Yet, Muslim countries have elected SEVEN women as Heads of their States &#8211; and we have yet to have a Female President.<\/span><br data-reactid=\".0.1:3:1:$comment10152410206006167_10152411071106167:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$5:0\" \/><br data-reactid=\".0.1:3:1:$comment10152410206006167_10152411071106167:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$7:0\" \/><span data-reactid=\".0.1:3:1:$comment10152410206006167_10152411071106167:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$8:0\">Our vision of Islam here is wrong. Saudi Arabia (and perhaps Iran now) are restrictive, but they are the minority among Muslims around the world. Saudis ARE the extremists. THEY HAVE BEHEADED 19 PEOPLE SINCE ISIS DID THE ONE. No one talks about that because they are in cahoots with our oil men.<\/span><br data-reactid=\".0.1:3:1:$comment10152410206006167_10152411071106167:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0.$end:0:$9:0\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PzusSqcotDw?feature=player_detailpage\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This comment by Jeanette Kramer gives further perspective:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span data-ft=\"{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}\" data-reactid=\".0.1:3:1:$comment10152410206006167_10152410747531167:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body\"><span class=\"UFICommentBody\" data-reactid=\".0.1:3:1:$comment10152410206006167_10152410747531167:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0\"><span data-reactid=\".0.1:3:1:$comment10152410206006167_10152410747531167:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$end:0:$0:0\">Equating genital mutilation problems to Islam is like equating gun problems to Christianity. If the media spoke about the gun problems in the USA like they did so many other topics, they would be reporting 24\/7 on the Christian violence in the US.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some guy once said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Take the plank out of your own eye so that you can see clearly to take the speck out of another&#8217;s eye.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN pushed an interview with Reza Aslan which helped show how ignorant the media treatment of culture is.\u00a0\u00a0 His commendably calm response to the interview&#8217;s thoughtlessness elucidated many of the issues that raise political tensions needlessly. Here&#8217;s an extract: Female Genital Mutilation is NOT a &#8220;Muslim&#8221; problem &#8211; its a central African problem. Eritrea has &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/ignorance-bigotry-islam-christianity-a-wasteful-formula-of-terror-pain-and-suffering-that-we-dont-need\/\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ignorance, bigotry, Islam, Christianity &#8211; a wasteful formula of terror, pain and suffering that we don&#8217;t need.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-risk-and-terror"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hwcd-EU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2537,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2536\/revisions\/2537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.astraea.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}