{"id":2703,"date":"2015-04-15T02:47:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T02:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/09\/05\/pc-alert-cnns-don-lemon-asks-if-islam-may-be-more-violent-than-other-faiths\/"},"modified":"2015-04-15T02:47:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T02:47:45","slug":"cnns-don-lemon-asks-if-islam-may-be-more-violent-than-otherfaiths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/2703","title":{"rendered":"CNN’s Don Lemon asks if Islam may be ‘more violent’ than other&nbsp;faiths"},"content":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/WaynesterAtl\/status\/508039282494566401\n<p>We thought we had settled this back in 2010, when PBS’ Tavis Smiley revealed to Ayaan Hirsi Ali that&nbsp;Christians commit terrorist acts&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/lachlan-markay\/2010\/05\/28\/pbss-tavis-smiley-far-more-christian-terrorists-muslim-ones-tea-part\">“every single day in this country.”<\/a>&nbsp;Maybe Christians aren’t the most violent of religions, though. Thursday, CNN’s Don Lemon asked his panel, “Is Islam a more violent religion than other faiths?”<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2014\/09\/04\/cnns-don-lemon-is-islam-a-more-violent-religion-than-other-faiths-video\/\">the Daily Caller<\/a>, which has video of the segment, reports, only Islamic Monthly editor Arsalan Iftikhar disagreed, citing Christian bombings of gay nightclubs and abortion clinics in the United States as proof.<\/p>\n<p>So, let’s settle this: is Islam a more violent religion than other faiths?<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/FreeStateYank\/status\/507657043751493632\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/SteveSkojec\/status\/507580807243120640\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/tankerdude01\/status\/507657075816935424\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/SarahVail1\/status\/508036431781298176\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/eCSVA\/status\/508037301038247936\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ancerrone\/status\/508038858710069249\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/steverino74\/status\/507662601837641728\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/ReconTexas\/status\/508041507807698945\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/FergusFSU\/status\/508044035760873472\n<p>Still, pretty incendiary language from CNN, though?<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/FreeLion7\/status\/508045517071589376\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/09\/05\/pc-alert-cnns-don-lemon-asks-if-islam-may-be-more-violent-than-other-faiths\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/09\/05\/pc-alert-cnns-don-lemon-asks-if-islam-may-be-more-violent-than-other-faiths\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/WaynesterAtl\/status\/508039282494566401 We thought we had settled this back in 2010, when PBS’ Tavis Smiley revealed to Ayaan Hirsi Ali that&nbsp;Christians commit terrorist acts&nbsp;“every single day in this country.”&nbsp;Maybe Christians aren’t the most violent of religions, though. Thursday, CNN’s Don Lemon asked his panel, “Is Islam a more violent religion than other faiths?” As the Daily &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/2703\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CNN’s Don Lemon asks if Islam may be ‘more violent’ than other&nbsp;faiths<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1561,1562,1559,103,1560],"class_list":["post-2703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anxiety","tag-islam","tag-lemon","tag-don-lemon","tag-twitchy","tag-violent-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/14289832761619-don-lemon-300px.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}