{"id":49672,"date":"2016-04-13T21:45:21","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T21:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=49672"},"modified":"2016-04-13T21:45:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T21:45:21","slug":"a-stunning-reversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=49672","title":{"rendered":"A stunning reversal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Camero<\/strong>n &#8212; Dabiq vs the Qur&#8217;an &#8212; again, it&#8217;s the formal precision of the reversal that inrerests me ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SPEC-DQ-one-vs-all.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-49673\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SPEC-DQ-one-vs-all.png\" alt=\"SPEC DQ one vs all\" width=\"600\" height=\"644\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SPEC-DQ-one-vs-all.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SPEC-DQ-one-vs-all-280x300.png 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>It is not the fact that the Islamic State delights in killing infidels that surprises me, it&#8217;s the utter reversal of the Qur&#8217;an&#8217;s own emphasis on the value of a single life that catches my eye.<\/p>\n<p>For the Qur&#8217;an, a single human life is worth the world, unless that life is subject to the death penalty for murder or mayhem; for IS, the lives of a world of infidels are worth less than a single Muslim life. <\/p>\n<p>The one and the many, an individual and the whole world &#8212; how differently they are regarded in these two texts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; Dabiq vs the Qur&#8217;an &#8212; again, it&#8217;s the formal precision of the reversal that inrerests me ] . ** It is not the fact that the Islamic State delights in killing infidels that surprises me, it&#8217;s the utter reversal of the Qur&#8217;an&#8217;s own emphasis on the value of a single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,1137,627,859,1078,1047,473,676,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-dabiq","category-doublequotes","category-form","category-is","category-isis","category-propaganda","category-scriptures","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49672","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=49672"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49680,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49672\/revisions\/49680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}