{"id":729,"date":"2022-04-17T17:55:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T17:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/?p=729"},"modified":"2022-04-17T17:55:51","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T17:55:51","slug":"the-religion-of-the-offended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/belief\/god\/the-religion-of-the-offended\/","title":{"rendered":"The Religion of the Offended"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s something hard to explain with Islam&#8230; Don\u2019t extreme Muslims believe in the power of God? Why then they must conduct his battles for him?<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s see now: In Sweden, threats to burn the Quran by a far-right group triggered several nights of violence. In Israel, threats to sacrifice a young goat on the Temple Mount by some Jewish extremists triggered several days of stoning Jews and physically attacking them.<\/p>\n<p>Why is that? Does the Islamic God want his believers to act with such violence, or do they hope to convert others into Islam by such deeds? If it\u2019s the former the reason, then it depicts a very poor picture of an impotent God. If it\u2019s the latter, then it means that scared people may actually start to believe that Muhammad rode a horse to Heaven.<\/p>\n<p>Or is it simply bad education that has nothing to do with Islam?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s something hard to explain with Islam&#8230; Don\u2019t extreme Muslims believe in the power of God? Why then they must conduct his battles for him? Let\u2019s see now: In Sweden, threats to burn the Quran by a far-right group triggered several nights of violence. In Israel, threats to sacrifice a young goat on the Temple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,35,7,25,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-ethics","category-god","category-islam","category-koran","category-muhammad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":730,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetruthiswrong.com\/indeed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}