{"id":582,"date":"2012-09-22T21:59:20","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T21:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/islaminamerica\/?p=582"},"modified":"2012-09-22T21:59:20","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T21:59:20","slug":"a-21st-century-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2012\/09\/22\/a-21st-century-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"A 21st-Century Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Muslim world cannot have it both ways. It cannot place Islam at the center of political life \u2014 and in extreme cases political violence \u2014 while at the same time declaring that the religion is off-limits to contestation and ridicule,&#8221; writes Roger Cohen in <I>The New York Times<\/I>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Politics is a rough-and-tumble game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read it all here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/22\/opinion\/roger-cohen-a-21st-century-islam.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;A 21st-Century Islam&#8221;<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Muslim world cannot have it both ways. It cannot place Islam at the center of political life \u2014 and in extreme cases political violence \u2014 while at the same time declaring that the religion is off-limits to contestation and ridicule,&#8221; writes Roger Cohen in The New York Times. &#8220;Politics is a rough-and-tumble game.&#8221; Read&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,30],"tags":[105,107,118],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-news","tag-egypt","tag-libya","tag-tunisia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>A 21st-Century Islam - 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\/2012\/09\/22\/a-21st-century-islam\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A 21st-Century Islam - Islam In America\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&#8220;The Muslim world cannot have it both ways. 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