{"id":22638,"date":"2015-02-26T23:21:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T04:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=22638"},"modified":"2015-02-26T23:38:38","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T04:38:38","slug":"diocese-of-new-westminster-wants-to-know-more-about-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-new-westminster-wants-to-know-more-about-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Diocese of New Westminster wants to know more about Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And why not? Islam could fill the gap in the diocese left by the departure of Christianity.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-22639\" src=\"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Capture-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Capture\" width=\"170\" height=\"129\" \/>From <a href=\"http:\/\/vancouver.anglican.ca\/news\/our-muslim-neighbours\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This event will seek to open up avenues of conversation.\u00a0 What do we know about Islam and Muslims?\u00a0 What do we appreciate?\u00a0 What do we fear?\u00a0 How do we understand current geo-political struggles, including terrorism?\u00a0 What is the capacity of Islam for pluralism, democracy, human rights and the secular?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s interesting that there don\u2019t seem to be any events organised by Muslims to understand Christianity better; Muslims may not feel the need because they are more secure in their beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>The organisers of this event suggest: <em>If possible, bring something that can be shared.<\/em> A severed head, perhaps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And why not? Islam could fill the gap in the diocese left by the departure of Christianity. From here: This event will seek to open up avenues of conversation.\u00a0 What do we know about Islam and Muslims?\u00a0 What do we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/diocese-of-new-westminster-wants-to-know-more-about-islam\/\">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":8,"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[2110,2178],"class_list":["post-22638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diocese-of-new-westminster","tag-diocese-of-new-westminster","tag-islam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22638","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=22638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}