{"id":184,"date":"2016-11-20T05:28:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T05:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/?p=184"},"modified":"2017-11-22T16:27:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T16:27:11","slug":"on-the-myth-of-religious-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/?p=184","title":{"rendered":"On the Myth of Religious Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span title=\"Edited\">In Islamic tradition, the first revelation prophet Muhammad (pbuh) received from Angel Jibril (Gabriel) was the word &#8220;Read&#8221;. And it was the first Quranic verse revealed to him, which happens to be at the very end of the book.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"Edited\">The Quran is of subtle nature; it is not a book of stories but a book of Ayat (Signs), and like its Author it has no beginning and no end.\u00a0The Aya &#8216;s are understood with a study of their context (which may be continued in different chapters) plus their time of revelation, and other determining factors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"Edited\">Sh. Hamza Yusuf says: Violence in religion is not a matter of what is wrong with the religion, but rather, what is wrong with the human beings? Very true.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"Edited\">Bernard Lewis said: &#8220;Western people forget, the real reason they are ruling this planet is because they have perfected the art of wide spread massacre.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span title=\"Edited\">And Muslims were not the inventors of nuclear weapons which burn countries alive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Word.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Islamic tradition, the first revelation prophet Muhammad (pbuh) received from Angel Jibril (Gabriel) was the word &#8220;Read&#8221;. And it was the first Quranic verse revealed to him, which happens to be at the very end of the book. The Quran is of subtle nature; it is not a book of stories but a book [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[388,387,389,383,16,283,264,384,84,74,294,386,385],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-appearance-vs-reality","tag-angel-gabriel","tag-bernard-lewis","tag-ethnic-cleansing","tag-god-consiousness","tag-islam","tag-islamic-quotes","tag-islamic-spirituality","tag-islamic-wisdo","tag-islamophobia","tag-quran","tag-the-great-deceiver","tag-violence-in-religion","tag-world-decption"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dopaland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}