{"id":1960,"date":"2010-06-28T22:38:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T05:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1960"},"modified":"2010-06-28T22:38:04","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T05:38:04","slug":"an-ominous-use-of-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2010\/an-ominous-use-of-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"An Ominous Use of Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I use Facebook, albeit with great caution and reserve.<\/p>\n<p>But even that caution and reserve would not have protected me from a Gardes Maroc Maroc:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href='http:\/\/www.mnnonline.org\/article\/14377'>Muslim uses Facebook profiles to find and target Christians<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But what if your Facebook profile were used as a weapon against you by Muslim extremists opposed to your Christian faith?<\/p>\n<p>According to Compass Direct News, this is exactly what is happening in Morocco, where over 100 foreign Christians have been deported since the beginning of the year for allegedly &#8220;proselytizing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Facebook user Gardes Maroc Maroc collected pictures and information from Christian converts&#8217; Facebook profiles, then posted 32 collages of the Christians, referring to them as &#8220;hyena evangelists,&#8221; &#8220;wolves in lamb&#8217;s skins&#8221; and accusing them of trying to &#8220;shake the faith of Muslims.&#8221; If the latter statement were true, the Christians would be guilty of breaking Morocco&#8217;s anti-proselytizing law and would face deportation or prison.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Maroc singling out several Christians, he also called for authorities to investigate the Village of Hope in Ain Leuh, where he claimed &#8220;foreign missionaries&#8221; were indoctrinating the children. This may be part of the reason the orphanage was raided on March 8 and 26 foreign Christians expelled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Does this mean I will hide my faith online?<\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>At least not at this point.<\/p>\n<p>Which naturally begs this follow-up question: At what point <i>would<\/i> I consider hiding my Christian identity online?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use Facebook, albeit with great caution and reserve. But even that caution and reserve would not have protected me from a Gardes Maroc Maroc: Muslim uses Facebook profiles to find and target Christians But what if your Facebook profile were used as a weapon against you by Muslim extremists opposed to your Christian faith? &#8230; <a title=\"An Ominous Use of Facebook\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2010\/an-ominous-use-of-facebook\/\" aria-label=\"More on An Ominous Use of Facebook\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,13,20],"tags":[161,121,29,39],"class_list":["post-1960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-endangered-christians","category-tech-stuff","category-youve-been-warned","tag-conversion","tag-facebook","tag-islam","tag-persecution"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-vC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}