{"id":54,"date":"2003-06-25T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-25T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2010-09-29T19:03:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-30T00:03:16","slug":"54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/25\/54\/","title":{"rendered":"Now They&#8217;ve Gone Too Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Editorial in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A28807-2003Jun24.html\" target=\"new\"><i>Washington Post<\/i><\/a> shows exactly how bad things have gotten in Pakistan:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOver the past few years, extremist Islamic groups in Pakistan have mounted a unilateral terror campaign. But Americans and Christians have not been the only victims. <b>Women, secular advocates and even Muslims <\/b>&#8212; Ahmadis, dissenting Sunni Muslims and Shiite Muslims &#8212; <b>have also come under attack<\/b>.  [Emphasis mine.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, my.  So it&#8217;s not just <i>Americans and Christians<\/i> dying, which is okay; now it&#8217;s other minority groups, which is somehow worse than just <i>Americans and Christians<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Now that protected groups are getting it, perhaps we should start protecting them.  Am I reading this op-ed piece right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editorial in today&#8217;s Washington Post shows exactly how bad things have gotten in Pakistan: Over the past few years, extremist Islamic groups in Pakistan have mounted a unilateral terror campaign. But Americans and Christians have not been the only victims. Women, secular advocates and even Muslims &#8212; Ahmadis, dissenting Sunni Muslims and Shiite Muslims &#8212; [&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-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","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=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8081,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/8081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}