{"id":13404,"date":"2010-09-10T07:29:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T12:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13404"},"modified":"2010-09-10T11:30:13","modified_gmt":"2010-09-10T16:30:13","slug":"the-unfiskable-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=13404","title":{"rendered":"The Unfiskable"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Bodell at the Minnesota “Progressive” Project <\/em>may know<\/a> his technology. \u00a0But he\u00a0needs to work a little on his cultural and language literacy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

It’s always been a curiosity to me that our media calls radical Muslim leaders “clerics” while people like Terry in Florida and Phelps in Kansas get to hang on to the title “Pastor.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

{{facepalm}}<\/p>\n

That’s partly because Christian churches have \u00a0a fairly uniform system for naming and identifying clergy; Islam’s system isn’t nearly as uniform. “Pastor” is a very broadly-accepted definitive for protestant clergy; “Father” works for Catholics, while “Rabbi” generally works for Jews.<\/p>\n

“Imam” is usually, but not always, an appropriate definitive for a Muslim prayer leader.<\/p>\n

Sounds less ominous than “cleric”, doesn’t it?Are we trying to make the other side’s radicals sound like Dungeons & Dragons characters? Does that make them scarier, somehow?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Only if you are completely unaware that “cleric” is the singular of the plural “clergy” – which, to be fair, didn’t pop up in “Dungeons and Dragons”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Bodell at the Minnesota “Progressive” Project may know his technology. \u00a0But he\u00a0needs to work a little on his cultural and language literacy: It’s always been a curiosity to me that our media calls radical Muslim leaders “clerics” while people like Terry in Florida and Phelps in Kansas get to hang on to the title […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faiths-and-their-followers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13410,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13404\/revisions\/13410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}