{"id":390,"date":"2013-04-15T22:22:08","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T02:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/muslimahinprogress\/?p=390"},"modified":"2013-04-15T22:22:08","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T02:22:08","slug":"tonight-i-pray-for-boston-and-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/muslimahinprogress\/2013\/04\/tonight-i-pray-for-boston-and-the-world.html","title":{"rendered":"Tonight I Pray for Boston and the World"},"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>Not much profound to say today.\u00a0 After this latest outrage, piled on top of oh-so-many outrages here and abroad, I can only pray.\u00a0 Pray for Allah to bring murderers to justice wherever they are.\u00a0 Pray for Allah to give comfort to the parents who have to bury a child.\u00a0 Pray for those who are so misguided that they consider mass murder to be a valid political tool.\u00a0 My heart goes out to the victims of the bombing in Boston.\u00a0 My prayers are for all innocent victims here in the U.S. and abroad \u2013 the fighters and families in Syria, the people shopping in a market in Baghdad, the kids killed at a wedding Afghanistan, the little ones who finally succumbed to starvation in Sudan or North Korea.\u00a0 Every death, whether broadcast on the news or totally unremarked, is important.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not much profound to say today.\u00a0 After this latest outrage, piled on top of oh-so-many outrages here and abroad, I can only pray.\u00a0 Pray for Allah to bring murderers to justice wherever they are.\u00a0 Pray for Allah to give comfort to the parents who have to bury a child.\u00a0 Pray for those who are so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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