{"id":1303,"date":"2009-06-03T09:51:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T14:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2009-06-03T09:51:28","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T14:51:28","slug":"excuse-me-mr-president-your-islamic-roots-are-showing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/excuse-me-mr-president-your-islamic-roots-are-showing","title":{"rendered":"Excuse Me, Mr. President: Your Islamic Roots are Showing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In remarks during his arrival in\u00a0Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, President Obama noted the he made this trip because <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2009\/06\/the-king-and-o.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I thought it was important to come to the place where Islam began&#8230;&#8221;<\/a> Why exactly? Is Islam more important to this president than Christianity?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2009\/06\/abc-news-jake-tapper-and-sunlen-miller-report-the-other-day-we-heard-a-comment-from-a-white-house-aide-that-neverwould-have.html\" target=\"_blank\">ABC&#8217;s Jake Tapper has more at his blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since the election&#8230;the White House has been increasingly forthcoming about the president&#8217;s roots. Especially when reaching out to the Muslim world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By the way, did I mention that while our &#8220;Christian&#8221; president is praising Islam, he still hasn&#8217;t found a &#8220;Christian&#8221; church to attend in Washington? Does anyone know where the president is on a typical Friday night?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In remarks during his arrival in\u00a0Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, President Obama noted the he made this trip because &#8220;I thought it was important to come to the place where Islam began&#8230;&#8221; Why exactly? Is Islam more important to this president than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/excuse-me-mr-president-your-islamic-roots-are-showing\">Continue reading <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":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1306,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/1306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}