{"id":1393,"date":"2015-02-16T13:46:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T13:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2015-02-16T02:50:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T02:50:06","slug":"a-danish-muslim-opens-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2015\/02\/16\/a-danish-muslim-opens-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"A Danish Muslim Opens Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Soren Esperson, deputy chairman of the Danish People\u2019s Party, &#8230; derided pleas from leading mainstream politicians, including the prime minister, that Islam not be blamed for the violence. &#8216;Of course this has something to do with Islam just as the Spanish Inquisition, the Crusades and witch burning had something to do with Christianity,&#8217; he said. Christianity, he added, had &#8216;dealt with its fanatics&#8217; and Islam &#8216;must now do the same&#8217;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This writer agrees with this assessment, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/16\/world\/europe\/copenhagen-attacks-suspect-is-killed-police-say.html\" target=\"_blank\">quoted<\/a> in <I>The New York Times<\/I>. You?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Soren Esperson, deputy chairman of the Danish People\u2019s Party, &#8230; derided pleas from leading mainstream politicians, including the prime minister, that Islam not be blamed for the violence. &#8216;Of course this has something to do with Islam just as the Spanish Inquisition, the Crusades and witch burning had something to do with Christianity,&#8217; he said.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245,30,79],"tags":[259],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intolerance","category-news","category-terrorism","tag-denmark"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A Danish Muslim Opens Fire - Islam In America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2015\/02\/16\/a-danish-muslim-opens-fire\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Danish Muslim Opens Fire - Islam In America\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#8220;Soren Esperson, deputy chairman of the Danish People\u2019s Party, &#8230; 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