{"id":1727,"date":"2009-01-31T20:06:29","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T20:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2009\/01\/31\/review_of_rotten_book_by_the_sookhdevil"},"modified":"2009-12-11T19:11:19","modified_gmt":"2009-12-11T19:11:19","slug":"review_of_rotten_book_by_the_sookhdevil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2009\/01\/31\/review_of_rotten_book_by_the_sookhdevil","title":{"rendered":"Review of rotten book by the Sookhdevil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben White of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk\/\">Fulcrum<\/a>, a website for evangelical Anglican Christians, has drawn my attention to a review he has written of Patrick Sookhdeo&#8217;s 2007 book Global Jihad.  While I&#8217;ve not read Sookhdevil&#8217;s book, this review examines a whole load of the distortions we used to regularly see in his articles for the Standard, the Spectator and even the Telegraph &#8211; accusing Muslims of taqiyya as some sort of religious principle, completely ignoring whole aspects of recent history, and basic and stupid historical errors (like describing Hizbullah as a Palestinian organisation).  Even if you don&#8217;t have time to waste on reading hundreds of pages of Sookhdeo&#8217;s drivel, which I don&#8217;t, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk\/page.cfm?ID=380\">this review<\/a> is a must-read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben White of Fulcrum, a website for evangelical Anglican Christians, has drawn my attention to a review he has written of Patrick Sookhdeo&#8217;s 2007 book Global Jihad. While I&#8217;ve not read Sookhdevil&#8217;s book, this&#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":[16,795],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamophobia","category-sookhdeo_patrick"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-rR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","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=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2266,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions\/2266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}