{"id":857,"date":"2006-05-13T08:13:34","date_gmt":"2006-05-13T08:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=857"},"modified":"2006-05-13T08:13:34","modified_gmt":"2006-05-13T08:13:34","slug":"2006-5-13-hitchens-maker-of-prophets-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=857","title":{"rendered":"Hitchens, maker of prophets"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Christopher Hitchens <a href=\"http:\/\/daily.stanford.edu\/tempo?page=content&amp;id=20434&amp;repository=0001_article\">decides<\/a> who can and can&#8217;t be a prophet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hitchens, an editor for Vanity Fair, described himself as an atheist and issued a sharp rebuke of the Muslim prophet Muhammad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Of course, he&#8217;s not a prophet,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He&#8217;s an epileptic plagiarist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the Quran &#8212; Islam&#8217;s holiest book &#8212; was full of &#8220;evil fairly tales&#8221; that were &#8220;unimaginably recycled.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a boring plagiarism of the worst parts of Christianity and Judaism,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Hitchens said he has personally expressed concern to British Prime Minister Tony Blair about Europe&#8217;s accommodation of radical Islam. He said that some Muslim leaders have said their growing population means they will eventually take control of Europe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read on for the increasingly delusional mind-wanderings of a once-contrarian. It&#8217;s odd that the headline of the article says &#8220;Radical Islam criticized&#8221; when in fact it is Islam itself that is being attacked with apparently no other end but to offend and appear controversial. What a loss.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">Christopher Hitchens <a href=\"http:\/\/daily.stanford.edu\/tempo?page=content&amp;id=20434&amp;repository=0001_article\">decides<\/a> who can and can&#8217;t be a prophet:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hitchens, an editor for Vanity Fair, described himself as an atheist and issued a sharp rebuke of the Muslim prophet Muhammad.<br \/>\n&#8220;Of course, he&#8217;s not a prophet,&#8221; he said. &#8220;He&#8217;s an epileptic plagiarist.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe said the Quran &#8212; Islam&#8217;s holiest book &#8212; was full of &#8220;evil fairly tales&#8221; that were &#8220;unimaginably recycled.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s a boring plagiarism of the worst parts of Christianity and Judaism,&#8221; he added.<br \/>\nHitchens said he has personally expressed concern to British Prime Minister Tony Blair about Europe&#8217;s accommodation of radical Islam. He said that some Muslim leaders have said their growing population means they will eventually take control of Europe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read on for the increasingly delusional mind-wanderings of a once-contrarian. It&#8217;s odd that the headline of the article says &#8220;Radical Islam criticized&#8221; when in fact it is Islam itself that is being attacked with apparently no other end but to offend and appear controversial. What a loss.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[102,194],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}