{"id":2081,"date":"2011-01-14T06:29:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T14:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2081"},"modified":"2011-01-14T06:29:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T14:29:35","slug":"persecution-why-the-west-wont-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2011\/persecution-why-the-west-wont-hear\/","title":{"rendered":"Persecution: Why the West Won&#8217;t Hear"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Hundreds of millions of Christians have suffered discrimination or even persecution in lands as diverse as China and India, but mostly in countries where Islam is the top religion.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this, persecution of Christians is one topic the American public doesn&#8217;t hear much about. One possible reason: an anti-Christian bias among Western elites.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You could <a href='http:\/\/www.persecutionblog.com\/2011\/01\/why-the-west-wont-hear-about-persecution.html'>watch the video<\/a>. Actually, go ahead, if you wish.<\/p>\n<p>But I have a question for you:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"green-back\"><p>What difference would it make if the American public <i>did<\/i> hear much about persecution against Christians?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I suspect not much.<\/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>Hundreds of millions of Christians have suffered discrimination or even persecution in lands as diverse as China and India, but mostly in countries where Islam is the top religion. Despite this, persecution of Christians is one topic the American public doesn&#8217;t hear much about. One possible reason: an anti-Christian bias among Western elites. You could &#8230; <a title=\"Persecution: Why the West Won&#8217;t Hear\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2011\/persecution-why-the-west-wont-hear\/\" aria-label=\"More on Persecution: Why the West Won&#8217;t Hear\">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":[6,534],"tags":[29,39],"class_list":["post-2081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-endangered-christians","category-todays-thought","tag-islam","tag-persecution"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-xz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081","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=2081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}