{"id":27303,"date":"2015-10-19T15:57:40","date_gmt":"2015-10-19T21:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=27303"},"modified":"2015-10-19T15:57:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-19T21:57:40","slug":"why-2-normal-teens-joined-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2015\/10\/why-2-normal-teens-joined-isis.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Why 2 &#8216;Normal&#8217; Teens Joined ISIS&#8221;"},"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_27304\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27304\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/10\/800px-Khadija-Moschee_Berlin.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-27304\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2015\/10\/800px-Khadija-Moschee_Berlin-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ostberliner Moschee\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27304\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Khadija Mosque was the first mosque in East Berlin.<br>(Wikimedia Commons; 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