{"id":288,"date":"2003-09-11T21:50:03","date_gmt":"2003-09-12T00:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=288"},"modified":"2003-09-11T21:50:03","modified_gmt":"2003-09-12T00:50:03","slug":"bridging-the-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=288","title":{"rendered":"Bridging the divide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>T<\/span>he BBC opened up <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/talking_point\/special\/islam\/3182669.stm\">some space for an interesting series called &#8216;Bridging the divide&#8217;<\/a>, to discuss, explore and (hopefully) bridge  the differences between the West and the Islam.\n<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday they had a quite candid and open interview with president Musharraf in their <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/talking_point\/3091490.stm\">Talking Point series<\/a>. The next interviewee is the prime minister of Malaysia,  who is due to retire this year and has been a vocal critic of both the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/3198105.stm\">Afghanistan and Iraq war<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>Add your comment on the question <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/talking_point\/special\/islam\/3198015.stm\">&#8216;Does the West understand Islam?&#8217;<\/a>.  Apparently, reading the comments of other users, there is a lot to learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC opened up some space for an interesting series called &#8216;Bridging the divide&#8217;, to discuss, explore and (hopefully) bridge the differences between the West and the Islam. Yesterday they had a quite candid and open interview with president Musharraf &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=288\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}