{"id":42235,"date":"2014-12-16T02:01:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-16T02:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=42235"},"modified":"2014-12-16T02:12:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T02:12:20","slug":"a-most-curious-youtube-quotation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=42235","title":{"rendered":"A most curious YouTube quotation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; total clash or bizarre agreement? Sydney hostage-taker Man Haron Monis quoted Christian apologist David Wood video on his Twitter feed ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>I am really not sure quite what to make of this. Sheikh <strong>Haron<\/strong>, aka <strong>Man Haron Monis<\/strong>, the disturbed ex-Shia convert to &#8220;Islam&#8221; who was the Sydney &#8220;hostage-taker&#8221; had a Twitter-feed, still up as I was researching this piece, which included this tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/RJ90REB1EG\">http:\/\/t.co\/RJ90REB1EG<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/Z3bchCMUJy\">http:\/\/t.co\/Z3bchCMUJy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sheikh Haron (@Sheikh_Haron) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sheikh_Haron\/status\/533796412811915264\">November 16, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Somewhat to my amazement, Haron is posting a video by the Christian apologist <strong>David Wood<\/strong> of <strong>Acts 17 Apologetics<\/strong> &#8212; a gentleman I&#8217;ve run across before, strongly opposed to Islam. Here&#8217;s the video in question, as featured on the Acts 17 Apologetics YouTube channel<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LXBgqa-xQwY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is Haron quoting Wood like this because he agrees (??!!) with Wood&#8217;s analysis of IS in terms of Quranic injunctions &#8212; or to show how disdainfully opposed to Islam, western views or Christian apologetics &#8220;really are&#8221;? &#8212; perhaps even both simultaneously?<\/p>\n<p>No matter how you read Haron&#8217;s use of Wood&#8217;s video, or the various versions of the two Abrahamic faiths under discussion, the appearance of a Christian apologeticist on Haron&#8217;s website should give us pause for thought.<\/p>\n<p>For an insight into Wood himself, the redemptive bio on the <strong>Moral Apologetics<\/strong> website under the title <a href=\"http:\/\/moralapologetics.com\/on-psychopathy-and-moral-apologetics\/\">On Psychopathy and Moral Apologetics<\/a> is worth your attention.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>In case Haron&#8217;s feed gets taken down &#8212; I&#8217;m amazed it hasn&#8217;t been taken down already &#8212; here is a screen cap of that tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Sheikh-Harons-tweet.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Sheikh-Harons-tweet.png\" alt=\"Sheikh Haron&#039;s tweet\" width=\"486\" height=\"666\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Sheikh-Harons-tweet.png 486w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Sheikh-Harons-tweet-218x300.png 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For more on Haron&#8217;s online presence, see <strong>Zack Beauchamp<\/strong> quoting <strong>Daveed Gartenstein-Ross<\/strong> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2014\/12\/15\/7397647\/isis-sydney-monis\">Sydney hostage taker Man Haron Monis pledged allegiance to ISIS on his website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; total clash or bizarre agreement? Sydney hostage-taker Man Haron Monis quoted Christian apologist David Wood video on his Twitter feed ] . I am really not sure quite what to make of this. Sheikh Haron, aka Man Haron Monis, the disturbed ex-Shia convert to &#8220;Islam&#8221; who was the Sydney &#8220;hostage-taker&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[677,526,497,770,1078,1047,753,210,446,819,1145,393,1,259],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-charles-cameron","category-christianity","category-daveed-gartenstein-ross","category-is","category-isis","category-islam","category-islamist","category-shia","category-sunni","category-sydney","category-twitter","category-uncategorized","category-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42235","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=42235"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42247,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42235\/revisions\/42247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}