{"id":4748,"date":"2015-08-05T06:20:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T06:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/?p=4748"},"modified":"2015-08-06T08:29:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-06T08:29:16","slug":"my-understanding-islam-debate-now-available-online-please-check-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/2015\/08\/05\/my-understanding-islam-debate-now-available-online-please-check-it-out\/","title":{"rendered":"My understanding Islam debate now available online &#8211; please check it out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I recently had a fascinating debate with David Warden of the Dorset Humanists concerning Islam, which I have written fairly extensively about. The debate was really well-mannered and a pleasure to be involved with. Thanks to the Dorset Humanists for hosting and inviting me. Here it is:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Understanding Islam: The Qur&#039;an and violence, a debate\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sYIaT2F23GA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I was arguing, as I have done <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/2015\/01\/12\/islam-and-violent-extremism\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, that Islam more properly lends itself to a conservative interpretation, including violence and intolerance of non-Muslims, than to a liberal or moderate interpretation. Please let me know what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently had a fascinating debate with David Warden of the Dorset Humanists concerning Islam, which I have written fairly extensively about. The debate was really well-mannered and a pleasure to be involved with. Thanks to the Dorset Humanists for hosing and inviting me. Here it is:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,1508,1054,251,362],"tags":[1667,51,552,765,1753,1519,1704],"class_list":["post-4748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debates","category-extremism","category-featured","category-islam","category-religion-and-society","tag-david-warden","tag-debate","tag-dorset-humanists","tag-fundamentalism","tag-islam","tag-quran","tag-violent-extremism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tippling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}