{"id":20373,"date":"2010-09-07T08:25:57","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T12:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20373"},"modified":"2010-09-07T08:25:57","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T12:25:57","slug":"muslims-will-we-ever-belong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20373","title":{"rendered":"Muslims: Will we ever belong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/09\/06\/us\/06muslims.html?_r=1&#038;adxnnl=1&#038;partner=rss&#038;emc=rss&#038;adxnnlx=1283861052-xWwOQke0PCtySUCmwJugbQ\">New York Times<\/a> is tearful over the treatment of Muslims in this country. The single act they have to use as an example is the attack on a Muslim cab driver in New York by a liberal film student. Some how that single attack reflects the constant danger in which millions of Muslims live every day.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe worry: Will we ever be really completely accepted in American society?\u201d said Dr. Ferhan Asghar, an orthopedic spine surgeon in Cincinnati and the father of two young girls. \u201cIn no other country could we have such freedoms \u2014 that\u2019s why so many Muslims choose to make this country their own. But we do wonder whether it will get to the point where people don\u2019t want Muslims here anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eboo Patel, a founder and director of Interfaith Youth Core, a Chicago-based community service program that tries to reduce religious conflict, said, \u201cI am more scared than I\u2019ve ever been \u2014 more scared than I was after Sept. 11.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, when you can count attacks on Muslims in this country on more than one finger, I might worry with you. When the attacks continue when you start informing police about potential terror plots, I might be concerned for you. When the Muslim community condemns terror and terror&#8217;s supporters as a single, united voice and you still live in fear from liberal film students, I&#8217;ll stand with you.<\/p>\n<p>Until that time, you reap what you sow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times is tearful over the treatment of Muslims in this country. The single &hellip; <a title=\"Muslims: Will we ever belong?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20373\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Muslims: Will we ever belong?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-society","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}