{"id":42802,"date":"2017-06-13T05:50:23","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T11:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/?p=42802"},"modified":"2017-06-13T05:50:23","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T11:50:23","slug":"haroon-moghul-writes-candidly-growing-muslim-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/06\/haroon-moghul-writes-candidly-growing-muslim-america.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Haroon Moghul writes candidly about growing up Muslim in America&#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_9074\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9074\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2014\/03\/p159270-jungfrau_region-lauterbrunnen_valley.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9074\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9074\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/186\/2014\/03\/p159270-jungfrau_region-lauterbrunnen_valley.jpg\" alt=\"sa'k;lfsal'\" width=\"474\" height=\"333\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9074\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland, just a few kilometers from where I\u2019m writing. \u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0one of my old tracting areas, and served as J.R.R. Tolkien\u2019s model for Rivendell, or the Valley of Elrond \u2014 and think it\u2019s the most beautiful place on Planet Earth. \u00a0(Wikimedia Commons public domain photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/religionnews.com\/2017\/06\/07\/haroon-moghul-writes-candidly-about-growing-up-muslim-in-america\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">This<\/a> seems a potentially interesting book. \u00a0It might be especially helpful for those who are worried about Muslims as an alien and threatening presence in America; I can imagine that it might humanize Muslims a bit for such readers, and help them to know at least one Muslim as a real individual person:<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/religionnews.com\/2017\/06\/07\/haroon-moghul-writes-candidly-about-growing-up-muslim-in-america\/<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Posted from Grindelwald, Switzerland<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 This seems a potentially interesting book. \u00a0It might be especially helpful for those who are worried about Muslims as an alien and threatening presence in America; I can imagine that it might humanize Muslims a bit for such readers, and help them to know at least one Muslim as a real individual person: [&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-42802","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;Haroon Moghul writes candidly about growing up Muslim in America&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&nbsp; &nbsp; This seems a potentially interesting book. \u00a0It might be especially helpful for those who are worried about Muslims as an alien and\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/danpeterson\/2017\/06\/haroon-moghul-writes-candidly-growing-muslim-america.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;Haroon Moghul writes candidly about growing up Muslim in America&quot;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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