{"id":1510,"date":"2009-10-30T16:58:29","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T05:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2009-10-30T17:26:27","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T06:26:27","slug":"islam-current-trends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2009\/10\/30\/islam-current-trends\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam-current trends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pagediv\">\n<p><strong>&#8220;Islam: at war within itself&#8221;<\/strong> \u00a0is a\u00a0penetrating analysis of some current events in the Islamic world.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Recent months have seen a number of unexpected and extremely encouraging statements coming out of the Muslim world.\u00a0 Respected, mainstream Muslim leaders in a variety of countries have voiced opinions which are at odds with traditional, conservative Islam.\u00a0 They have challenged aspects of shari\u2018a and are calling for a liberal, modernist, enlightened Islam compatible with Western norms.\u00a0 Perhaps the most significant of all is a comment by a group of British Muslims calling for an end to the apostasy law and for full freedom in all religious matters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>From international authority on Islam, Dr Patrick Sookhdeo, Director of the Barnabas Fund. This is a must read. Full article at\u00a0\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnabasfund.org\/News\/archives\/text.php?ID_news_items=468\">Islam: at war within itself. <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the conclusions of the above analysis is the need to keep insisting on religious freedoms and human rights within Islamic communities. Interestingly, and also published yesterday, a call from the Vatican for Iran to respect the religious freedom of its Christian minorities:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicnews.com\/data\/stories\/cns\/0904823.htm\">Pope calls for strengthening of religious freedom in Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Islam: at war within itself&#8221; \u00a0is a\u00a0penetrating analysis of some current events in the Islamic world. Recent months have seen a number of unexpected and extremely encouraging statements coming out of the Muslim world.\u00a0 Respected, mainstream Muslim leaders in a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/2009\/10\/30\/islam-current-trends\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1516,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/imaginarydiocese.org\/bishopjohn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}