{"id":3343,"date":"2009-11-30T19:03:47","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T00:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=3343"},"modified":"2009-11-30T19:03:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T00:03:49","slug":"glass-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/?p=3343","title":{"rendered":"Glass Houses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"clear: both\">The citizens of Switzerland just <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.latimes.com\/~r\/latimes\/news\/nationworld\/world\/~3\/maUJuHgPWQQ\/la-fg-swiss-minaret30-2009nov30,0,6276715.story\">voted to bar the erection of minarets<\/a> in their country. The Muslim world is in a bit of an uproar about it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"clear: both\">I&#8217;ll grant you it&#8217;s a trifle xenophobic. Well, more than a trifle. Still, it&#8217;s hard to see how the Muslims can complain, when there are Muslim countries that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawa.org\/convert.htm\">impose the death penalty on apostates<\/a> and generally make life miserable for those that don&#8217;t share their faith. Banning buildings, as unjustified as that might be, is weak beer in comparison. It&#8217;s an odd thing that, other than the Quakers, those who experience religious persecution are capable of seeing the injustice in it, until they gain enough power to do the persecuting themselves.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"final-break\" style=\"clear: both\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The citizens of Switzerland just voted to bar the erection of minarets in their country. The Muslim world is in a bit of an uproar about it. I&#8217;ll grant you it&#8217;s a trifle xenophobic. Well, more than a trifle. Still, it&#8217;s hard to see how the Muslims can complain, when there are Muslim countries that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3344,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions\/3344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctblueblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}