{"id":12226,"date":"2011-03-16T08:10:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T13:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=12226"},"modified":"2011-03-16T08:10:44","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T13:10:44","slug":"celebrating-the-murder-of-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/celebrating-the-murder-of-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the murder of children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the terrorist butchering of an Israeli family, residents in Gaza celebrated the fact by passing out sweets in the street.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12227 alignright\" title=\"Gaza celebration\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Gaza-celebration.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"152\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While war is horrible and the death of children in war even more horrible, it doesn\u2019t compare to the especially insidious evil needed to deliberately murder your enemy\u2019s children \u2013 particularly at close range.<\/p>\n<p>And it takes an especially odious religion \u2013 Islam \u2013 to fuel the impulse to celebrate such an atrocity.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/articles\/262229\/why-they-celebrate-murdering-children-andrew-c-mccarthy\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Do you think the State Department noticed that no one in Arizona, Mexico, or even Mars took to the streets to celebrate the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords? No one seemed to think it was a \u201cnatural\u201d act \u2014 the Islamic term du jour to rationalize the throat-slitting massacre of a sleeping Jewish family: 36-year-old Udi Fogel, his 35-year-old wife, Ruth, and, yes, their three children: 11-year-old Yoav, 4-year-old Elad, and Hadas, their 3-month-old baby\u2026\u2026..<\/p>\n<p>Muslims, in fact, are more often exhorted by their scriptures to brutalize non-Muslims than Christians are urged by the gospels to love their enemies and turn the other cheek. Yet, though we assume the latter are meant to take the message to heart, we are somehow sure Islam doesn\u2019t really mean what it says \u2014 that when Muslims strike terror into the hearts of the unbelievers, it must be Israel\u2019s fault, or America\u2019s, or something, <em>anything<\/em>, other than Islam, the only common denominator in these attacks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the terrorist butchering of an Israeli family, residents in Gaza celebrated the fact by passing out sweets in the street. While war is horrible and the death of children in war even more horrible, it doesn\u2019t compare to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/celebrating-the-murder-of-children\/\">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":[305],"tags":[2178,2265],"class_list":["post-12226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terrorism","tag-islam","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12226","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=12226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}