{"id":59428,"date":"2014-10-29T15:30:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T23:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=59428"},"modified":"2014-10-29T15:30:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T23:30:51","slug":"why-cant-we-criticize-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=59428","title":{"rendered":"Why Can&#8217;t We Criticize Islam?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.jewishjournal.com\/dennis_prager\/article\/why_is_criticism_of_islam_forbidden\">Dennis Prager writes<\/a>: There is apparently no amount of mass murder, no number of innocents tortured or women raped, no amount of female degradation, no number of people enslaved, no number of Christians expelled from or murdered in the Middle East, no amount of Nazi-like Jew-hatred in its societies, no number of beheadings or even crucifixions, and no amount of terror that allows criticism of Islam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dennis Prager writes: There is apparently no amount of mass murder, no number of innocents tortured or women raped, no amount of female degradation, no number of people enslaved, no number of Christians expelled from or murdered in the Middle &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=59428\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dennis-prager","category-islam"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - 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