{"id":692,"date":"2013-09-23T14:02:08","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T18:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/?p=692"},"modified":"2014-06-19T08:46:01","modified_gmt":"2014-06-19T12:46:01","slug":"your-fatwa-does-not-apply-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"YOUR FATWA DOES NOT APPLY HERE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201c[T]he struggle waged in Muslim majority societies against extremism is one of the most important\u2014and overlooked\u2014human rights struggles in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the Combating Terrorism Center in West Point, between 2006 and 2008, 98 percent of al-Qaeda\u2019s victims were Muslim.<\/p>\n

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‘Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here:<\/a>Whenever a terrorist attack happens in the West, one of the standard responses in some media circles is to denounce Muslims for not doing enough to speak out against extremism. In “Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here,” University of California at Davis law professor and human rights activist Karima Bennoune shows that in fact, thousands of Muslims fight extremist violence every day.<\/p>\n
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via <\/span>Washingtonpost<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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\u201c[T]he struggle waged in Muslim majority societies against extremism is one of the most important\u2014and overlooked\u2014human rights struggles in the world.\u201d According to the Combating Terrorism Center in West Point, between 2006 and 2008, 98 percent of al-Qaeda\u2019s victims were Muslim. ‘Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here:Whenever a terrorist attack happens in the West, one … Continue reading YOUR FATWA DOES NOT APPLY HERE<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomasseidman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}