{"id":12365,"date":"2011-03-25T00:28:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T04:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=12365"},"modified":"2011-03-25T00:28:39","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T04:28:39","slug":"thousands-of-christians-displaced-in-ethiopia-after-islamists-set-fire-to-churches-and-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/thousands-of-christians-displaced-in-ethiopia-after-islamists-set-fire-to-churches-and-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Christians displaced in Ethiopia after Islamists set fire to churches and homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2011\/03\/24\/thousands-christians-displaced-ethiopia-muslim-extremists-torch-churches-homes-2057387870\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12367\" title=\"EthiopiaChurchremains\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/EthiopiaChurchremains.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"179\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Thousands of Christians have been forced to flee their homes in Western Ethiopia after Muslim extremists set fire to roughly 50 churches and dozens of Christian homes.<\/p>\n<p>At least one Christian has been killed, many more have been injured and anywhere from 3,000 to 10,000 have been displaced in the attacks that began March 2 after a Christian in the community of Asendabo was accused of desecrating the Koran.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the midst of all this terrorising of Christians by Muslims, there is at least some good news: only one Koran has been damaged \u2013 and even that appears inconclusive.<\/p>\n<p>World leaders won\u2019t have to write notes imploring copy-cat desecrators to show more sensitivity to Koran lovers, the heads of bishops and archbishops won\u2019t implode as they contemplate the enormity of possible hate crimes against the Koran and, something we can all be thankful for, Obama won\u2019t make another speech about how, in this teachable moment, Christians should show restraint so as not to inflame worldwide Islamophobia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Thousands of Christians have been forced to flee their homes in Western Ethiopia after Muslim extremists set fire to roughly 50 churches and dozens of Christian homes. At least one Christian has been killed, many more have been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/thousands-of-christians-displaced-in-ethiopia-after-islamists-set-fire-to-churches-and-homes\/\">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":[189],"tags":[596,2178],"class_list":["post-12365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islam","tag-christian-persecution","tag-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365","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=12365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}