{"id":4888,"date":"2008-10-06T10:21:17","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T17:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/10\/06\/ohio-children-attacked-at-mosque-mainstream-media-stays-silent\/"},"modified":"2008-10-06T10:21:17","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T17:41:05","slug":"ohio-children-attacked-at-mosque-mainstream-media-stays-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4888","title":{"rendered":"Ohio Children Attacked at Mosque, Mainstream Media Stays Silent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/thecurvature.com\/2008\/10\/04\/children-attacked-at-mosque-mainstream-media-stays-silent\/\">The Curvature<\/a> (who I swiped the post title from):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Friday September 26, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2008\/9\/28\/203016\/697\/536\/613742\">a chemical\/gas was sprayed into a Dayton, Ohio mosque room where children and babies were kept while their mothers prayed during a Ramadan service<\/a>. A ten-year-old girl was sprayed directly in the face.&nbsp; Coincidentally or not, this attack came at the end of a week in which thousands of copies of the Islamophobic DVD <em>Obsession: Radical Islam\u2019s War Against the West<\/em> were distributed in Ohio through the mail and local newspapers. <a href=\"http:\/\/questioningtransphobia.wordpress.com\/2008\/09\/28\/domestic-terrorism\/\">The media is all but entirely ignoring this story.<\/a> And the one main news source that is reporting on the story is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/search\/content\/oh\/story\/news\/local\/2008\/10\/03\/ddn100308mosque.html\">heavily implying that bloggers are exaggerating the situation<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is there any reason to doubt that if this had happened to the day-care room in a Christian church, during services, it would be a huge news story?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Curvature (who I swiped the post title from): On Friday September 26, a chemical\/gas was sprayed into a Dayton, Ohio mosque room where children and babies were kept while their mothers prayed during a Ramadan service. A ten-year-old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4888\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}