{"id":31874,"date":"2015-10-03T06:09:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T10:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=31874"},"modified":"2015-10-03T06:09:06","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T10:09:06","slug":"the-speck-in-the-eye-of-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2015\/10\/the-speck-in-the-eye-of-islam.html","title":{"rendered":"The Speck in the Eye of Islam"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/jessedooley.wordpress.com\/2015\/01\/20\/removing-our-logs-of-injustice-seeing-the-hypocrisy-within\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jesse Dooley<\/a> paraphrased a famous saying of Jesus, writing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Why do you see the speck in the eye of Islam when you have such glaring beams in your own? First rid yourself of your own logs so you can see clearly enough to help your Muslim brothers and sisters.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I\u2019m grateful to <a href=\"https:\/\/danutm.wordpress.com\/2015\/09\/21\/removing-our-logs-of-injustice-seeing-the-hypocrisy-within\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">D\u0103nu\u021b M\u0103n\u0103stireanu<\/a> for making sure I noticed this!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-31875\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/exploringourmatrix\/files\/2015\/09\/Peanuts-who-will-tell-who-is-good-and-bad.jpg\" alt=\"Peanuts who will tell who is good and bad\" width=\"473\" height=\"473\"><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesse Dooley paraphrased a famous saying of Jesus, writing: Why do you see the speck in the eye of Islam when you have such glaring beams in your own? First rid yourself of your own logs so you can see clearly enough to help your Muslim brothers and sisters. 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