{"id":10359,"date":"2010-10-23T23:15:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T03:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=10359"},"modified":"2010-10-23T23:15:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-24T03:15:22","slug":"the-wests-new-weapon-against-al-qaeda-rowan-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-wests-new-weapon-against-al-qaeda-rowan-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"The West\u2019s new weapon against Al-Qaeda: Rowan Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/world\/report_proper-understanding-of-faith-will-help-tackle-terrorism-archbishop-of-canterbury_1456975\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wrong understanding of religion and God was often the cause of terrorism and religious fanaticism, archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams observed in Thiruvananthapuram today.<\/p>\n<p>Stating that he did not think that universal military action against terrorism would solve the problem, he said trying to understand why some people were driven to &#8220;dreadful and evil actions&#8221; would help addressing the problem of terrorism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This certainly has potential: as Rowan tries to \u201cunderstand\u201d terrorists he will undoubtedly pull out his big guns and employ <em>dialogue. <\/em>They won\u2019t stand a chance; bored to death before they can reach for the nearest suicide belt. If Rowan is feeling particularly vicious he will organise them into indaba groups to reduce them to drooling idiots first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Wrong understanding of religion and God was often the cause of terrorism and religious fanaticism, archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams observed in Thiruvananthapuram today. Stating that he did not think that universal military action against terrorism would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-wests-new-weapon-against-al-qaeda-rowan-williams\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[2241,2265],"class_list":["post-10359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rowan-williams","tag-rowan-williams","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}