{"id":3347,"date":"2006-10-01T13:38:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T13:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3347"},"modified":"2017-12-14T11:15:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T17:15:17","slug":"wrong-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/01\/wrong-number\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong Number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you feel you have reached <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/nation\/story\/AD366C44902B5D73862571F90060D615?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">this message<\/a> in error, please check your number and dial again:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since June, area Muslims have become increasingly uncomfortable and even fearful not because of overt attacks or threats against them, but because a sequence of incidents have built upon each other to form an intense, low-grade foreboding.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning with the monthlong Israel-Hezbollah conflict through Pope Benedict XVI&#8217;s inflammatory lecture last month, American Muslims say they feel more uneasy in their own country. Local incidents, including the August screening of a controversial anti-terrorism movie and an FBI raid on the home of a Muslim in Columbia, Mo., have heightened the anxiety, according to dozens of St. Louis Muslims interviewed over the last few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Muslims are feeling like the world is closing in on them,&#8221; said Orvin T. Kimbrough, executive director of the Interfaith Partnership of Metropolitan St. Louis. &#8220;They feel like they&#8217;re being targeted.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When our leaders call for your extermination and members of the population start killing you for being Muslims, call us back.<\/p>\n<p>Until then, forebode quietly like the rest of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you feel you have reached this message in error, please check your number and dial again: Since June, area Muslims have become increasingly uncomfortable and even fearful not because of overt attacks or threats against them, but because a sequence of incidents have built upon each other to form an intense, low-grade foreboding. Beginning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18529,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3347\/revisions\/18529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}