{"id":2485,"date":"2010-06-11T16:03:57","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T15:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2485"},"modified":"2025-10-08T11:54:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:54:19","slug":"me_muslimmatters_how_should_we_respond_to_the_edl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2010\/06\/11\/me_muslimmatters_how_should_we_respond_to_the_edl","title":{"rendered":"Me @ MuslimMatters: How should we respond to the EDL?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote an article on the English Defence League, the racist football hooligan gang that holds riotous &quot;demonstrations&quot; against Muslims around the UK, at the request of Amad at <a href=\"http:\/\/muslimmatters.org\/\">MuslimMatters<\/a> regarding the rise of the so-called English Defence League, discussing how much of a threat they pose and how we (Muslims) should deal with it.  It can be found here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muslimmatters.org\/2010\/06\/11\/how-should-muslims-respond-to-the-english-defence-leagues-threat-yusuf-smith\/\">How should Muslims respond to the English Defence League&#39;s threat?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wrote an article on the English Defence League, the racist football hooligan gang that holds riotous &quot;demonstrations&quot; against Muslims around the UK, at the request of Amad at MuslimMatters regarding the rise of&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamophobia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-E5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485","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=2485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41571,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2485\/revisions\/41571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}