{"id":1968,"date":"2009-07-10T21:34:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-10T20:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2009\/07\/10\/new_statesman_-_know_your_enemy"},"modified":"2009-07-10T22:36:51","modified_gmt":"2009-07-10T21:36:51","slug":"new_statesman_-_know_your_enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2009\/07\/10\/new_statesman_-_know_your_enemy","title":{"rendered":"Terrorists getting easy ride from media and law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title = \"New Statesman - Know your enemy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/2009\/07\/muslim-terrorism-white-british\">New Statesman &#8211; Know your enemy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mehdi Hasan, the New Statesman&#8217;s senior politics editor, on a man stopped in his tracks while preparing to use tennis balls as bombs, whose case hardly got any coverage in the national media because editors were not interested: the man&#8217;s name is Neil Lewington, and no, he&#8217;s not a white convert to Islam but a Nazi.  Despite the fact that &#8220;ethno-nationalists&#8221;, most of them white, commit the vast majority of terrorist attacks in Europe, they get a fraction of the media coverage and, in this country, they get handled with kid-gloves by the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Statesman &#8211; Know your enemy Mehdi Hasan, the New Statesman&#8217;s senior politics editor, on a man stopped in his tracks while preparing to use tennis balls as bombs, whose case hardly got any&#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":[4,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-terrorism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-vK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","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=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1969,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions\/1969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}