{"id":814,"date":"2009-01-13T11:03:07","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T16:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2009\/01\/13\/wow\/"},"modified":"2019-11-20T00:19:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T05:19:07","slug":"wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2009\/01\/13\/wow\/","title":{"rendered":"Wow."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the <a href=\"http:\/\/switch3.castup.net\/cunet\/gm.asp?ai=214&amp;ar=1050wmv&amp;ak=nul\">strongest, clearest public statement<\/a> I can remember hearing in a long time. Maybe ever. This <a href=\"http:\/\/switch3.castup.net\/cunet\/gm.asp?ai=214&amp;ar=1050wmv&amp;ak=nul\">video<\/a> of an interview on al-Jazeera, shows <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wafa_Sultan\">Wafa Sultan<\/a>, an Arab-American woman, working as a psychiatrist, living in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>She addresses the &#8220;clash of civilizations&#8221; as a sort of Muslim excuse and challenges Muslim culture to, in so many words, grow up. Unbelievable&#8230; &#8220;&#8230;We have not seen one Jew blow himself up in a German restaurant. Three great Buddha statues have been reduced to rubble. We have seen not one buddhist destroy a Mosque.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlawinterbottom.com\">Carla Winterbottom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the strongest, clearest public statement I can remember hearing in a long time. Maybe ever. This video of an interview on al-Jazeera, shows Wafa Sultan, an Arab-American woman, working as a psychiatrist, living in Los Angeles. She addresses the &#8220;clash of civilizations&#8221; as a sort of Muslim excuse and challenges Muslim culture to, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2009\/01\/13\/wow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wow.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-care","category-gallery","category-heartening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4084,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814\/revisions\/4084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}