{"id":7216,"date":"2014-04-15T11:02:36","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T18:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=7216"},"modified":"2014-04-15T11:02:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T18:02:36","slug":"the-are-slaughtering-us-like-chickens-muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-are-slaughtering-us-like-chickens-muslim-persecution-of-christians-december-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"The Are Slaughtering Us Like Chickens’: Muslim Persecution of Christians, December 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/\u00a0Gatestone Insitute<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

As happens at Christmas every year throughout the Muslim world, Christians and their churches were especially targeted\u2014from jihadi terror strikes killing worshippers, to measures by Muslim authorities restricting Christmas celebrations.\u00a0 Some incidents follow:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Raymond Ibrahim \/\/\u00a0Gatestone Insitute As happens at Christmas every year throughout the Muslim world, Christians and their churches were especially targeted\u2014from jihadi terror strikes killing worshippers, to measures by Muslim authorities restricting Christmas celebrations.\u00a0 Some incidents follow:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[29,225,227],"tags":[540,366,192,1017,925,30,478],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-1So","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1064,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/christmas-under-islam-hardly-a-season-to-be-jolly\/","url_meta":{"origin":7216,"position":0},"title":"Christmas Under Islam: Hardly a Season to be Jolly","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 21, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"by Raymond Ibrahim PJ Media Earlier I\u00a0discussed\u00a0how mosques, some of which\u00a0breed radicalization\u00a0and serve as\u00a0terrorist bases, flourish in America, while churches are increasingly targeted and destroyed in the Muslim world, especially the Middle East, the cradle of Christianity. 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