{"id":170,"date":"2005-12-14T11:20:15","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T01:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=170"},"modified":"2005-12-14T11:25:44","modified_gmt":"2005-12-14T01:25:44","slug":"how-to-be-a-young-muslim-in-a-climate-of-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=170","title":{"rendered":"How to be a young Muslim in a climate of fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/rn\/talks\/bbing\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" vspace=\"10\" hspace=\"10\" height=\"116\" border=\"0\" title=\"image: ABC Radio National\" alt=\"image: ABC Radio National\" src=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/blogimages\/thumb-muslim_youth_montage_ABC_RN_bbing.gif\" \/><\/a> <br \/>I really do love my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/rn\" target=\"_self\">ABC Radio National<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The best RN program of the week is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/rn\/talks\/bbing\/\" target=\"_self\">Background Briefing<\/a> story about how <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/rn\/talks\/bbing\/stories\/s1526049.htm\" target=\"_blank\">young Muslims are integrating their faith<\/a> into growing up in Australia. (audio: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/rn\/talks\/bbing\/mod\/bbing_11122005_2856.ram\" target=\"_blank\">Real<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/rn\/talks\/bbing\/mod\/bbing_11122005_28M.asx\" target=\"_blank\">Win<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/rn\/podcast\/feeds\/bbing_20051211.mp3\" target=\"_self\">MP3<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Australians are living in a climate of fear, uncertainty and doubt about young Muslims. This has been fuelled not only by <a href=\"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/?p=167\" target=\"_self\">cheap opportunists like Alan Jones,<\/a> but by official Australian Government policy. When the government <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/news\/immigration\/praise-for-end-of-pacific-solution\/2005\/10\/14\/1128796680146.html\" target=\"_blank\">treats asylum seekers like radioactive waste<\/a>, to be kept away from the rest of Australia at all costs, the value of all Australians is diminished. <\/p>\n<p>There is strength in diversity. The fire of fear of the unknown, being stoked by Howard for short term political benefit, is nothing but destructive, as if the weekend&#8217;s beach riots weren&#8217;t a big enough heads-up for Australia at large. <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t miss this particularly insightful edition of Background Briefing.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>-weez&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Muslims speak about living on the pointed end of Howard&#8217;s hysteria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/machinegunkeyboard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}