{"id":36653,"date":"2019-04-20T14:08:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T14:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36653"},"modified":"2019-04-20T14:08:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T14:08:46","slug":"reached-the-limit-of-anti-muslim-bigotry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36653","title":{"rendered":"Reached the limit of anti-Muslim bigotry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=Facebook%20%23Islam%20%23bigotry%20%23socialmedia&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/media.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36634\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/media-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/media-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/media-768x567.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/media-1024x755.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/media.jpg 1163w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have just committed the rare act of disconnecting someone from my social media network.<\/p>\n<p>Until just a few moments ago, we were &#8220;friends&#8221; on Facebook. I will concede that we aren&#8217;t close personal friends, although I know this person&#8217;s spouse quite well, as he served in local government for many years during my time as editorial page editor of the Amarillo Globe-News.<\/p>\n<p>What did this person do to incur my social media wrath? She posted a vile anti-Muslim meme, saying in effect that Muslims need to be destroyed by nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, yes. Feelings run high at times when we talk about those who believe in one of the world&#8217;s great religions. This one crosses the line. It goes way beyond what I consider to be anything close to reasonable.<\/p>\n<p>I hereby am going to declare a state of proverbial &#8220;war&#8221; against those who post such things on my Facebook feed.<\/p>\n<p>You are welcome to criticize this blog. I truly don&#8217;t object to that, although some of the personal criticism does sting a bit. Hey, I ask for it with some of my blog posts. I should be willing to take what I dish out, correct?<\/p>\n<p>However, those who believe in a certain religious faith do not deserve to be treated in a hideous manner. My now former Facebook &#8220;friend&#8221; has revealed a terrible element in her emotional makeup. Therefore, I no longer will use my own social media network to spread such hate.<\/p>\n<p>Her ghastly meme should have been targeted toward those who have perverted Islam. She didn&#8217;t do that.<\/p>\n<p>She can consort with her fellow haters all she wants.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=Facebook%20%23Islam%20%23bigotry%20%23socialmedia&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have just committed the rare act of disconnecting someone from my social media network. Until just a few moments ago, we were &#8220;friends&#8221; on Facebook. I will concede that we aren&#8217;t close personal friends, although I know this person&#8217;s spouse quite well, as he served in local government for many years during my time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36653\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reached the limit of anti-Muslim bigotry<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[1676,2349,4300],"class_list":["post-36653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-national-news","tag-facebook","tag-islam","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36654,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36653\/revisions\/36654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}