{"id":792,"date":"2012-12-12T05:13:47","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T05:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/islaminamerica\/?p=792"},"modified":"2012-12-12T05:13:47","modified_gmt":"2012-12-12T05:13:47","slug":"its-not-about-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2012\/12\/12\/its-not-about-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Not About Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s Thomas L. Friedman’s take on the current turmoil in Egypt: “What has brought hundreds of thousands of Egyptians back into the streets, many of them first-time protesters, is the fear that autocracy is returning to Egypt under the guise of Islam. The real fight here is about freedom, not religion.”<\/p>\n

(Read the New York Times<\/I> opinion piece here<\/a>.) <\/p>\n

Do you agree? Has Egypt “replaced one autocracy, led by Hosni Mubarak, with another, led by the Muslim Brotherhood”?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s Thomas L. Friedman’s take on the current turmoil in Egypt: “What has brought hundreds of thousands of Egyptians back into the streets, many of them first-time protesters, is the fear that autocracy is returning to Egypt under the guise of Islam. 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