{"id":19119,"date":"2014-10-06T06:27:12","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T13:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19119"},"modified":"2014-11-09T11:55:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T19:55:10","slug":"reza-aslan-makes-a-lot-of-sense-here-the-cnn-news-anchors-are-frankly-embarrassing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19119","title":{"rendered":"Reza Aslan Makes a Lot of Sense Defending Islam. The CNN Anchors Sound Like Islamaphobic Bigots."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Author&#8217;s note: I&#8217;ve edited the title of this post to reflect more accurately the point I wanted to make.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/api\/embed.html#\/video\/bestoftv\/2014\/09\/30\/cnn-tonight-reza-aslan-bill-maher.cnn\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Reza Aslan is\u00a0responding here to this\u00a0rant by\u00a0Bill Maher:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JDFrNQAjDYA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to point out that Maher is right: Muslims who engage in offensive practices\u2014whether they are individuals, governments, or groups like ISIS\u2014should not get a pass just because they are Muslim and people are afraid to criticize them for fear of being called racist. Nonetheless, Maher&#8217;s critique of Islam is narrow and bigoted in exactly the way Aslan describes. And, frankly, the CNN news anchors are not much different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author&#8217;s note: I&#8217;ve edited the title of this post to reflect more accurately the point I wanted to make. Reza Aslan is\u00a0responding here to this\u00a0rant by\u00a0Bill Maher: It&#8217;s important to point out that Maher is right: Muslims who engage in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=19119\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19119"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19258,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19119\/revisions\/19258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}