{"id":168,"date":"2006-08-22T18:08:53","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T23:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2006\/08\/22\/the-end-of-quran-project\/"},"modified":"2006-08-22T19:25:57","modified_gmt":"2006-08-23T00:25:57","slug":"the-end-of-quran-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2006\/08\/22\/the-end-of-quran-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of Qur&#8217;an Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One last entry sums it all up:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/quranblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/closed.html\"><p>So, here is the final update:<\/p>\n<p>I finished the rest of the Qur&#8217;an and nothing there made me change my mind about the Manson-like quality of the cult.<\/p>\n<p class=\"citation\"><cite><a href=\"http:\/\/quranblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/08\/closed.html\">Closed<\/a> \u2013 Qur&#8217;an Project<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Let me be quick to point out that my understanding that the cult is not Islam, itself. While I personally have grave doubts regarding the Muslim faith, that&#8217;s not an indictment against those who hold it. The Muslims I know are as tolerant and accepting as anyone else. Rather, the cult is those extremists who commit violence against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/2004\/09\/08\/beslan-massacre-redux\/\">people who have done them no wrong<\/a>. Can anyone really argue otherwise?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One last entry sums it all up: So, here is the final update: I finished the rest of the Qur&#8217;an and nothing there made me change my mind about the Manson-like quality of the cult. Closed \u2013 Qur&#8217;an Project Let me be quick to point out that my understanding that the cult is not Islam, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-salmagundi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p706FH-2I","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clank.org\/pundit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}