{"id":30286,"date":"2016-01-24T14:24:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T21:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=30286"},"modified":"2016-01-24T14:26:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T21:26:11","slug":"kenyan-muslim-who-shielded-christians-in-al-shabab-attack-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2016\/01\/kenyan-muslim-who-shielded-christians-in-al-shabab-attack-dies.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Kenyan Muslim who shielded Christians in al-Shabab attack dies&#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_30287\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30287\" style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/01\/545px-Mandera_County_in_Kenya.svg_.png\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30287\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2016\/01\/545px-Mandera_County_in_Kenya.svg_.png\" alt=\"Mandera on a map\" width=\"545\" height=\"599\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-30287\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Kenyan district of Mandera borders on Ethiopia and, even more perilously, on Somalia.<br>(Wikimedia Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a story that shouldn\u2019t be overlooked. \u00a0Not just the story of the heroic Salah Farah, upon whom be peace, but the overall story of Muslims who stood up for their Christian neighbors during a brutal attack:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-35352763\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-35352763<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As Jordan\u2019s Queen Consort Rania points out in a Fox News interview with Maria Bartiromo, the majority of the victims of ISIS have been, and continue to be, Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/shows\/sunday-morning-futures.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/shows\/sunday-morning-futures.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 This is a story that shouldn\u2019t be overlooked. \u00a0Not just the story of the heroic Salah Farah, upon whom be peace, but the overall story of Muslims who stood up for their Christian neighbors during a brutal attack: \u00a0 http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-35352763 \u00a0 As Jordan\u2019s Queen Consort Rania points out in a Fox News interview [&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-30286","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>&quot;Kenyan Muslim who shielded Christians in al-Shabab attack dies&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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