{"id":556,"date":"2019-11-11T16:24:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T16:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/?p=556"},"modified":"2019-11-11T16:24:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T16:24:17","slug":"the-hajj-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/2019\/11\/11\/the-hajj-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hajj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The documentary was really interesting, I have never really looked in to it before because it never sparked my interest. The Journey each Muslim goes on is pretty amazing though and the diversity of people all over the world was a point people rarely bring up of Islam. <\/p>\n<p>In class some students discussed their dissatisfaction with the reporters race, I did see their point, but I think people often forget religion is not a racial attribute and the man&#8217;s race was actually extremely unimportant to his beliefs. People are often quick to jump on a the &#8220;woke&#8221; train of identity politics but fail to see passed the message presented because of their frustrations of how its presented. <\/p>\n<p>Religion and race are unrelated, religion is a choice, race is not. Though I understood where the younger students were coming from I thought it silly for them to be hung up on trivial issues like that which distracted from the documentary on the Hajj created 22 years ago. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The documentary was really interesting, I have never really looked in to it before because it never sparked my interest. The Journey each Muslim goes on is pretty amazing though and the diversity of people all over the world was a point people rarely bring up of Islam. In class some students discussed their dissatisfaction &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/2019\/11\/11\/the-hajj-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Hajj&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9196308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9196308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":656,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/ghs2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}