{"id":451,"date":"2021-01-20T11:18:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T11:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/176.32.230.18\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=451"},"modified":"2021-02-21T18:04:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T18:04:54","slug":"making-and-breaking-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"Making and breaking History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:heading {\"level\":3} --><\/p>\n<h3>Events in the Middle East are infuenced by diferent views of history. Surely only one can be right?<\/h3>\n<p><!-- \/wp:heading --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Raymond Ibrahim, author and commentator on Islam&#8217;s historical and current war on Christianity, asks, &#8220;How can a fundamentally weak Muslim world be a threat to an economically and militarily superior West?&#8221; One answer is how the West views Islam today, &#8220;compared to its actual historic experiences with Islam.&#8221; From its first contact with &#8220;Western civilization&#8221; and for centuries after, Muslims acted like today&#8217;s Islamic State terrorists, convinced &#8220;that Islam commands war on, and the enslavement or slaughter of, non-Muslims.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:more --><\/p>\n<div class=\"swpm-more-tag-not-logged-in swpm-margin-top-10\">You need to login to view the rest of the content. Please <a class=\"swpm-login-link\" href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=733&swpm_redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fswordmagazine.net%2Findex.php\">Login<\/a>. Not a Member? <a href=\"http:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/?page_id=731\">Join Us<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Events in the Middle East are infuenced by diferent views of history. Surely only one can be right? Raymond Ibrahim, author and commentator on Islam&#8217;s [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swordmagazine.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}