{"id":13670,"date":"2009-12-01T18:20:59","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T02:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=13670"},"modified":"2009-12-01T18:56:34","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T02:56:34","slug":"the-prophet-mohammed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=13670","title":{"rendered":"The Prophet Mohammed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do non-Muslims keep saying, &#8220;The prophet Mohammed&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s so patronizing. We don&#8217;t do that for other religions. Do we say the prophet Joseph Smith? Or the prophet L. Ron Hubbard? Or the prophet Ellen G. White?<\/p>\n<p>Dennis Prager made this point on his radio show today. &#8220;Does Friedman write the Christ Jesus? Or the prophet Moses? Of course not. It&#8217;s so politically correct.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/29\/opinion\/29friedman.html?_r=1&#038;scp=1&#038;sq=%22thomas%20friedman%22&#038;st=cse\">Tom Friedman recently wrote<\/a> about why are moderate Muslims not protesting massacres such as the one at Fort Hood.<\/p>\n<p>Where is the good being done in the name of Islam? <\/p>\n<p>You keep telling us what Islam isn&#8217;t. Please tell us what it is. Why do a million Muslims pour into the streets to protest cartoons of Mohammed but not one will go into the streets to protest mass murder in the name of God?<\/p>\n<p>Dennis: If we are going to say that our religion is a force for good, we need to provide examples.<\/p>\n<p>To say that most Muslims are not terrorists is not exactly a moral achievement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do non-Muslims keep saying, &#8220;The prophet Mohammed&#8221;? It&#8217;s so patronizing. We don&#8217;t do that for other religions. Do we say the prophet Joseph Smith? Or the prophet L. Ron Hubbard? Or the prophet Ellen G. White? Dennis Prager made &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=13670\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,139],"tags":[29761,20207,20205,10768,20206,20208],"class_list":["post-13670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","category-islam","tag-dennis-prager","tag-l-ron-hubbard","tag-prophet-joseph-smith","tag-prophet-mohammed","tag-prophet-moses","tag-tom-friedman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13679,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13670\/revisions\/13679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}