{"id":122,"date":"2008-01-29T22:41:35","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T21:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2008\/01\/29\/the_rebranding_of_abdullah_quilliam"},"modified":"2008-01-29T22:41:35","modified_gmt":"2008-01-29T21:41:35","slug":"the_rebranding_of_abdullah_quilliam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2008\/01\/29\/the_rebranding_of_abdullah_quilliam","title":{"rendered":"The rebranding of Abdullah Quilliam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title = \"Abdullah Quilliam: Britain&#8217;s First Islamist? at Yahya Birt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yahyabirt.com\/?p=136\">Abdullah Quilliam: Britain&#8217;s First Islamist? at Yahya Birt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yahya Birt demolishes the attempt to rebrand Abdullah Quilliam, the pioneer British Muslim of the Victorian era, as some sort of mascot for the pacified &#8220;British Islam&#8221; being promoted by Ed Husain.  Quilliam was, in fact, pro-Ottoman &#8211; i.e. in favour of retaining the caliphate as it existed &#8211; and opposed to British colonialism, and was hated and attacked by the bigots of his day (in Liverpool) rather than embraced, as Ed and his chums are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abdullah Quilliam: Britain&#8217;s First Islamist? at Yahya Birt Yahya Birt demolishes the attempt to rebrand Abdullah Quilliam, the pioneer British Muslim of the Victorian era, as some sort of mascot for the pacified &#8220;British&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ed_husain_shiraz_maher"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-1Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}