{"id":2002,"date":"2016-07-14T19:52:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-15T00:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/?p=2002"},"modified":"2016-07-16T15:31:36","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T20:31:36","slug":"nice-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2016\/07\/nice-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim killed over 70 people on Bastille Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;text-align: justify\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2016\/07\/14\/nice-france\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/files\/2016\/07\/Nice-14-Jul-16.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, July 14th, is the anniversary of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Storming_of_the_Bastille\">storming of the Bastille<\/a> and the beginning of the French Revolution.<\/p>\n<p>During the celebration of the National Day, <strong>Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel<\/strong> drove a truck into a crowd in Nice, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2016\/jul\/14\/several-killed-after-lorry-drives-into-crowd-in-nice-reports\">killing more than 70 people<\/a>. Witnesses reports claim that Humbert <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/news\/world\/dozens-dead-as-truck-ploughs-into-nice-bastille-day-parade\/news-story\/c85335cc0942d425928dcb58061c31fa\">shouted <em>Allahu Akbar<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Besides the general comments that I outlined after the terrorist attacks in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2015\/11\/13\/attacks-paris\/\">Paris<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/2016\/03\/23\/islamic-terrorism-brussels\/\">Brussels<\/a><\/strong>, there&#8217;s not much more to say \u2014 the <strong>killing of those who don&#8217;t think alike and do not believe is a divine order which is directly derived from the sacred books<\/strong>. That is demonstrably <em>true<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s frustrating and distressing to think that the more people refuse to properly diagnose the problem, the <strong>more victims there will be<\/strong>. But they would rather believe that religions only produce peace and love! The fear of offending or &#8216;alienating&#8217; millions of believers pales at the prospect of losing more innocent lives.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think it is farfetched to claim that <strong>people who keep denying the relationship between religion and terrorism have blood on their hands<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>(image: <i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Admitonesin\">@Admitonesin<\/a><\/i>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> farfetched to claim that people who keep denying the relationship between religion and terrorism have blood on their hands?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":2001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[302,110,37,266],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atheism","tag-france","tag-islam","tag-life-and-death","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/avant-garde\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}