{"id":27422,"date":"2013-09-15T21:25:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T21:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=27422"},"modified":"2013-09-16T02:03:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T02:03:30","slug":"with-god-on-both-our-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=27422","title":{"rendered":"With God on both our sides&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> aka hipbonegamer &#8212; shall we file this under religion, or politics? ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/SPEC-Syrian-jihad-and-Russian-Orthodox.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27423\" title=\"SPEC Syrian jihad and Russian Orthodox\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/SPEC-Syrian-jihad-and-Russian-Orthodox.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/SPEC-Syrian-jihad-and-Russian-Orthodox.png 605w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/SPEC-Syrian-jihad-and-Russian-Orthodox-287x300.png 287w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see, now: religiously speaking, you can support a murderous dictator on a rampage against his own people, or the rebels who oppose him who take video selfies of themselves eating their deceased enemies&#8217; hearts &#8212; or abstain from taking sides and let the two parties shoot and rape it out among themselves&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh <strong>Youself al-Qaradawi<\/strong> is an Egyptian cleric with a following in the tens of millions, while <strong>Roman Silantyev<\/strong> is a &#8220;religious expert and head of the Human Rights Center of the World Russian People&#8217;s Council&#8221; and staff member of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/en\/News\/middle-east\/2013\/06\/02\/Top-cleric-Qaradawi-calls-for-Jihad-against-Hezbollah-Assad-in-Syria.html\">Top cleric Qaradawi calls for Jihad against Hezbollah, Assad in Syria<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interfax-religion.com\/?act=news&amp;div=10750\">Religious expert suggests to send the Russian volunteer corps to Syria<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron aka hipbonegamer &#8212; shall we file this under religion, or politics? ] . ** Let&#8217;s see, now: religiously speaking, you can support a murderous dictator on a rampage against his own people, or the rebels who oppose him who take video selfies of themselves eating their deceased enemies&#8217; hearts &#8212; or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,497,627,673,91,440,1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-christianity","category-doublequotes","category-egypt","category-russia","category-syria","category-uncategorized","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27422","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27422"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27466,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27422\/revisions\/27466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}