{"id":4646,"date":"2009-04-29T12:02:34","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T17:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4646"},"modified":"2009-04-29T12:09:34","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T17:09:34","slug":"just-so-you-know-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4646","title":{"rendered":"Just So You Know&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jihadwatch.org\/archives\/025843.php\">our new ruling class (by acclamation!) stands:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Madeline Albright: &#8220;Islam is maybe the most democratic religion because there is nobody between you and God. So I do not think that is something that can be used as reason not to have Muslim democracies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Albright &#8211; Jewish, as I recall, not that it matters &#8211; must have missed that whole &#8220;Protestant Reformation&#8221; bit.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate &#8211; it seems Islam <em>is\u00a0 <\/em>used for exactly that reason &#8211; there is exactly one stable Moslem democracy (Turkey), two deeply flawed democracies with huge numbers of Moslems (India and Indonesia), and a few more that show signs of promise (Senegal and, to an extent, Mali).<\/p>\n<p>The return to prominence of Madeline Albright, who under Clinton (eww) was the worst Secretary of State since Warren Christopher, a woman who&#8217;s always treated American Exceptionalism as an inconvenient hurdle, is one of the great tragedies of Obama&#8217;s win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;where our new ruling class (by acclamation!) stands: Madeline Albright: &#8220;Islam is maybe the most democratic religion because there is nobody between you and God. So I do not think that is something that can be used as reason not to have Muslim democracies. Albright &#8211; Jewish, as I recall, not that it matters &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,26,73,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-faiths-and-their-followers","category-western-civilization","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646","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=4646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}