{"id":1440,"date":"2009-09-26T21:07:57","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T21:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1440"},"modified":"2009-09-26T21:07:57","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T21:07:57","slug":"muslim-girl-to-christian-convert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1440","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Girl to Christian Convert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/CRIME\/09\/04\/florida.muslim.convert\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"CNN\">The famous story<\/a> of the 17 year old Rifqa Bary who ran away from her Muslim home claiming that she was running away from the &quot;honor killing&quot;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIt is interesting to note how one uses the resources such as facebook to seek refuge.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAfter watching the video from CNN's site, the only problem I have is the Ameristian &quot;way&quot; of caring, as Pastor Lorenz (I think) constantly put his arms around her shoulders. It is not the liberal standard that I have issue with, it is how should we proceed to make her a strong Christian, is what I concern.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI thank God for such grand mercy, to allow the witnesses of Muslim converts in America. At the same time, I fear the people's wish to tempt God's mercy by putting emotions first may one day cost them or their next generations dearly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famous story of the 17 year old Rifqa Bary who ran away from her Muslim home claiming that she was running away from the &quot;honor killing&quot;. It is interesting to note how one uses the resources such as facebook &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1440\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}