{"id":30935,"date":"2015-07-06T10:39:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T14:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=30935"},"modified":"2015-07-06T10:39:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T14:39:48","slug":"news-flash-right-wing-fundamentalists-dont-understand-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/07\/news-flash-right-wing-fundamentalists-dont-understand-islam.html","title":{"rendered":"News Flash: Right-Wing Fundamentalists Don’t Understand Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Hemant Mehta<\/a> drew attention to angry outbursts on Twitter<\/a>, from conservatives who are upset that president Obama did not mention God<\/a> in his 4th of July address. These two\u00a0particularly baffle me:<\/p>\n

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@BlissTabitha<\/a> He\u2019s an atheist with Muslim tendencies.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Troy Ellison (@blayne_troy) July 4, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[ Military ] Open Question : Obama removes God from 4th of July address. What is wrong with him? This proves he is muslim. what do you\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Zpr\u00e1vy (@zpravycz) July 5, 2015<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Why are people who do not know enough about Islam to know that its first and most central tenet is belief in one God<\/i> spouting ignorant ramblings of this sort?<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t\u00a0understand why \u201catheist with Muslim tendencies\u201d is ridiculous, even the words were not applied to a president who recently sang Amazing Grace in church,\u00a0you shouldn\u2019t be speaking about\u00a0the president, or about\u00a0atheism, or about Islam.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hemant Mehta drew attention to angry outbursts on Twitter, from conservatives who are upset that president Obama did not mention God in his 4th of July address. These two\u00a0particularly baffle me: @BlissTabitha He\u2019s an atheist with Muslim tendencies. \u2014 Troy Ellison (@blayne_troy) July 4, 2015 [ Military ] Open Question : Obama removes God from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":30936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,149,75],"tags":[250,371,684,871,1010,4005,7813,11673],"class_list":["post-30935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atheism-religion","category-islam-religion","category-politics","tag-4th-of-july","tag-address","tag-antichrist","tag-atheist","tag-barack-obama","tag-god","tag-muslim","tag-speech"],"yoast_head":"\nNews Flash: Right-Wing Fundamentalists Don't Understand Islam<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hemant Mehta drew attention to angry outbursts on Twitter, from conservatives who are upset that president Obama did not mention God in his 4th of July\" \/>\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\/religionprof\/2015\/07\/news-flash-right-wing-fundamentalists-dont-understand-islam.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"News Flash: Right-Wing Fundamentalists Don't Understand Islam\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hemant Mehta drew attention to angry outbursts on Twitter, from conservatives who are upset that president Obama did not mention God in his 4th of July\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/07\/news-flash-right-wing-fundamentalists-dont-understand-islam.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Religion Prof: The Blog of James F. 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