{"id":2234,"date":"2010-10-21T10:15:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/21\/pcuicide\/"},"modified":"2010-10-21T10:15:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-21T17:15:30","slug":"pcuicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/pcuicide\/","title":{"rendered":"PCuicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of NPR&#8217;s PC-spasm firing of Juan Williams, consider <a href=\"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/daniel-pipes-on-the-travails-of-modern-islam.pdf\">The Travails of Modern Islam<\/a> by Daniel Pipes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>QUESTION<\/strong>: In relation to the two questions of what went wrong  and how do we fix it, do you see a difference between hardcore Islamists  and those that are less committed?<\/p>\n<p><strong>DR DANIEL PIPES<\/strong>: They are roughly the same. Various versions  of Islamism exist. For example, in Saudi Arabia women can&#8217;t drive, can&#8217;t  do this, can&#8217;t do that. In Iran, they can. The Iranian idea is that  they&#8217;ve created an Islamic republic where women are safe. In the Saudi  vision, danger lurks in every corner and females need to be protected.  There are many such differences in both style and substance. But in the  end, all Islamists aspire to the same thing which is the application of  Islamic law. Islamic law differs slightly in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran  and India. They have different schools, but these are again details and  in general the aspiration to apply Islamic law is common to all Muslims.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The generalizations abhorred by the politically correct need the most scrutiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of NPR&#8217;s PC-spasm firing of Juan Williams, consider The Travails of Modern Islam by Daniel Pipes: QUESTION: In relation to the two questions of what went wrong and how do we fix it, do you see a difference between hardcore Islamists and those that are less committed? DR DANIEL PIPES: They are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2234","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"category-religion","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}