{"id":1686,"date":"2006-03-14T03:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-14T03:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2006-03-14T03:42:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-14T03:42:00","slug":"1686","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=1686","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>RECOMMENDED READING<\/b><\/p>\n<p>A short burst:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marc<\/strong> at <a href=\"http:\/\/americanfuture.net\/\"><strong>American Future<\/strong>  <\/a>has zeroed in on censorship in Britain where <a href=\"http:\/\/americanfuture.net\/?p=1480#comments\">the MSM there is increasingly reluctant to publish criticism of Islamist extremism<\/a>. Creeping dhimmitude of the postmodern, urban, intellectual.<\/p>\n<p>And now for an interesting juxtaposition&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/lounsbury.aqoul.com\/\">Collounsbury<\/a><\/strong> on &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/lounsbury.aqoul.com\/archives\/2006\/03\/islam_moderatio.html#more\">moderate Muslims<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; quite accurately pointing out that what most Westerners think of as &#8220;moderate&#8221; Muslims are actually secularized &#8221; liberals&#8221; who are a tiny minority, without much influence and who are often at odds with actual moderate Muslims who are what <strong>Gilles Kepel<\/strong> called &#8221; the devout middle-class&#8221;. Non-violent but pious, orderly, socially conservative, believers.<\/p>\n<p>that&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RECOMMENDED READING A short burst: Marc at American Future has zeroed in on censorship in Britain where the MSM there is increasingly reluctant to publish criticism of Islamist extremism. Creeping dhimmitude of the postmodern, urban, intellectual. And now for an interesting juxtaposition&#8230;. Collounsbury on &#8220;moderate Muslims&#8221; &#8211; quite accurately pointing out that what most Westerners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}