{"id":17807,"date":"2015-02-14T09:44:33","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T16:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=17807"},"modified":"2015-02-14T09:46:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T16:46:06","slug":"a-pair-of-muslim-denunciations-of-isis-and-a-memorial-at-byu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/02\/a-pair-of-muslim-denunciations-of-isis-and-a-memorial-at-byu.html","title":{"rendered":"A pair of Muslim denunciations of ISIS, and a memorial at BYU"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17808\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17808\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/02\/800px-YPG_soldier_during_ISIL_fight.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17808\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/02\/800px-YPG_soldier_during_ISIL_fight-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"YPG soldier (female)\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17808\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A soldier of the Kurdish (Muslim) militia fighting against the nihilistic death cult that calls\u00a0itself the\u00a0\u201cIslamic State\u201d<br>(Click to enlarge.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As I\u2019ve observed, everywhere I do I\u2019m inevitably asked why Muslims don\u2019t condemn terrorism undertaken in the name of Islam.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Part of my invariable answer is that they <em>do<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple of relatively recent examples that I\u2019ve been intending to post:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/world\/2015\/02\/05\/pkg-lee-egypt-grand-mufti-isis-extremism.cnn\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cGrand Mufti: Jordanian pilot\u2019s murder not part of Islam\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2015\/02\/06\/released-from-detention-in-jordan-prominent-jihadi-preacher-lashes-out-against\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cProminent jihadi preacher condemns ISIS for Jordanian pilot killing\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And here\u2019s another item about a reaction from Muslim (and other) students at BYU:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/universe.byu.edu\/2015\/02\/09\/byu-students-and-jordanian-community-unite-in-prayer-for-pilot\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cBYU students and Jordanian community unite in prayer for pilot\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Are such statements enough? \u00a0No. \u00a0They need to become a deafening roar.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And, of course, mere statements won\u2019t be enough, either.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 As I\u2019ve observed, everywhere I do I\u2019m inevitably asked why Muslims don\u2019t condemn terrorism undertaken in the name of Islam. \u00a0 Part of my invariable answer is that they do. \u00a0 Here are a couple of relatively recent examples that I\u2019ve been intending to post: \u00a0 \u201cGrand Mufti: Jordanian pilot\u2019s murder not part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A pair of Muslim denunciations of ISIS, and a memorial at BYU<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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