{"id":58149,"date":"2016-03-28T07:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T12:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58149"},"modified":"2016-03-28T10:41:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T15:41:19","slug":"happy-easter-youre-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58149","title":{"rendered":"Happy Easter.  You&#8217;re Dead."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mprnews.org\/story\/2016\/03\/27\/npr-explosion-at-park-in-lahore-pakistan-kills-at-least-30\">Read this piece<\/a>,\u00a0from MPR,\u00a0about the bombings in Lahore, Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Horrific? \u00a0Yep.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s missing?<\/p>\n<p>The fairly pivotal fact that the the Pakistani Taliban targeted the park because <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/suicide-bomber-targeting-christians-kills-65-mostly-women-191609071.html\">it was a major center for Pakistani Christians celebrating Easter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To do so would interfere with the narrative that we&#8217;re\u00a0<em>not\u00a0<\/em>involved in a battle to the death with a millennarian, eliminationist\u00a0death cult (and no, I&#8217;m not referring to every Muslim, or even a majority).<\/p>\n<p>Show me a charity that seeks to train, and ideally arm, Christians around the world &#8211; especially in Nigeria, ISIS territory, and Pakistan &#8211; to resist genocide, and I will hold a fund-raiser.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3512288\/ISIS-carries-Good-Friday-crucifixion-Indian-Catholic-priest-Yemen-kidnapped-three-weeks-ago.html\">Let&#8217;s put a hotfoot on that charity<\/a> providing arms and training to Christians in harm&#8217;s way. \u00a0And, if we can swing it, tanks and jets and napalm.<\/p>\n<p>Stat.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58136#comment-148381\">Kel<\/a> in the comment section)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read this piece,\u00a0from MPR,\u00a0about the bombings in Lahore, Pakistan. Horrific? \u00a0Yep. What&#8217;s missing? The fairly pivotal fact that the the Pakistani Taliban targeted the park because it was a major center for Pakistani Christians celebrating Easter. To do so would interfere with the narrative that we&#8217;re\u00a0not\u00a0involved in a battle to the death with a millennarian, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-war-and-peace","category-western-civilization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58149","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=58149"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58153,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58149\/revisions\/58153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}