{"id":11557,"date":"2008-10-20T20:36:39","date_gmt":"2008-10-21T03:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2008\/10\/20\/11557.html"},"modified":"2008-10-20T20:36:39","modified_gmt":"2008-10-21T03:36:39","slug":"chasing-away-the-agents-of-int","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2008\/10\/20\/chasing-away-the-agents-of-int\/","title":{"rendered":"Chasing away the agents of intolerance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had been kind of annoyed the past few days to hear various people respond to the \"Obama is an Arab\/Muslim\" thing with statements like \"No, he's not, he's a decent Christian\" (I'm conflating and paraphrasing several different things here, not quoting); I kind of wanted someone to at <em>least<\/em> add \"--not that there's anything wrong with being Arab or Muslim.\" We've really got to get rid of the equation \"Arab = Muslim = terrorist.\"<\/p>\n<p>So the part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/27265369\/\">Powell's endorsement of Obama<\/a> that pleased me the most was his <a href=\"http:\/\/newsweek.washingtonpost.com\/onfaith\/guestvoices\/2008\/10\/powell_rejects_islamophobia.html\">defense of American Muslims<\/a>. (Though the editor in me wishes he'd used the subjunctive for clarity--that is, he should've said \"What if he were?\" rather than \"What if he is?\")<\/p>\n<p>And I was further heartened by a <a href=\"http:\/\/link.brightcove.com\/services\/player\/bcpid1417423198?bctid=1866657225\">video<\/a> that two unconnected friends on Facebook both posted today, in which some McCain supporters--most of them Muslim, and one of them officially affiliated with the campaign--confront some \"Obama is a socialist with Islamic background\" whackos, apparently outside a McCain rally.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been kind of annoyed the past few days to hear various people respond to the &#8220;Obama is an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,95,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-race-ethnicity","category-religion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}