{"id":40153,"date":"2017-02-27T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T23:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=40153"},"modified":"2017-02-27T17:28:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T00:28:57","slug":"trump-team-dogmatic-islam-russia-pragmatic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/02\/trump-team-dogmatic-islam-russia-pragmatic.html","title":{"rendered":"“The Trump team is dogmatic on Islam, but Russia is more pragmatic”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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I\u2019m a bit amused by the description of both Mr. Donald J. Trump\u2019s America and Mr. Vladimir Putin\u2019s Russia as \u201cChristian powers,\u201d but, otherwise, I think this is a pretty interesting article:<\/p>\n

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