{"id":330,"date":"2009-05-11T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/2009\/05\/pope-benedict-xvi-succumbs-to.html"},"modified":"2009-05-11T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T18:00:00","slug":"pope-benedict-xvi-succumbs-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2009\/05\/pope-benedict-xvi-succumbs-to.html","title":{"rendered":"Pope Benedict XVI succumbs to dhimmitude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talkislam.info\/2009\/05\/10\/7230\/\">This image<\/a> is going to blow a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/cityofbrass.blogspot.com\/2005\/07\/jafi.html\">jafi&#8217;s<\/a> minds.<\/p>\n<p>After all, we are supposed to <a href=\"http:\/\/talkislam.info\/2008\/05\/27\/fear-the-scarf-if-its-got-a-checkerbo\/\">Fear the Scarf<\/a>! And also <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com\/atlas_shrugs\/2007\/09\/flight-93-islam.html\">anything crescent-shaped<\/a>. Or even <a href=\"http:\/\/cityofbrass.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/empire-state-building-photos.html\">colored green<\/a>. It&#8217;s all about Shari&#8217;a!<\/p>\n<p>On a more serious note, Hussein Rashid discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2009\/WORLD\/meast\/05\/10\/rashid.papal.trip\/\">the Pope&#8217;s moral authority<\/a>, and thus obligation, to speak out for peace in the IP conflict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This image is going to blow a lot of jafi&#8217;s minds. After all, we are supposed to Fear the Scarf! And also anything crescent-shaped. Or even colored green. It&#8217;s all about Shari&#8217;a! On a more serious note, Hussein Rashid discusses the Pope&#8217;s moral authority, and thus obligation, to speak out for peace in the IP&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[83,100,90,26],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dour-mullah","category-read-this","tag-dhimmitude","tag-islamophobia","tag-jafi","tag-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Pope Benedict XVI succumbs to dhimmitude - City of Brass<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pope Benedict XVI succumbs to dhimmitude - City of Brass\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This image is going to blow a lot of jafi&#8217;s minds. 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