{"id":3280,"date":"2011-12-10T08:20:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T13:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3280"},"modified":"2011-12-10T08:29:20","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T13:29:20","slug":"another-great-day-to-be-an-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3280","title":{"rendered":"Trolls for Christ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been a long time since we rapped at you, we know, light posting lately on account of finals, deadlines, holidays.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Please enjoy this&nbsp;item from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/12\/09\/companies-ads-all-american-muslim_n_1140066.html\">Huffington Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Lowe&#39;s, the national hardware chain, has pulled commercials from future episodes of &quot;All-American Muslim,&quot; a TLC reality-TV show, after protests by Christian groups.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Florida Family Association<\/strong>, a Tampa Bay group, has led a campaign urging companies to pull ads on &quot;All-American Muslim.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;&#39;All-American Muslim&#39; is propaganda clearly designed to counter legitimate and present-day concerns about many Muslims who are advancing Islamic fundamentalism and Sharia law,&quot; the Florida group asserts in a letter it asks members to send to TLC advertisers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The show profiles only Muslims that appear to be ordinary folks while excluding many Islamic believers whose agenda poses a clear and present danger to the liberties and traditional values that the majority of Americans cherish,&quot; <\/strong>the FFA&#39;s letter continues.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cheezburger.com\/WinklesTheHamster\/lolz\/View\/5031612160\">Can&#39;t tell if Christian or just trolling<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been a long time since we rapped at you, we know, light posting lately on account of finals, deadlines, holidays.&nbsp; Please enjoy this&nbsp;item from the Huffington Post: Lowe&#39;s, the national hardware chain, has pulled commercials from future episodes of &quot;All-American Muslim,&quot; a TLC reality-TV show, after protests by Christian groups. The Florida Family Association, a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=3280\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trolls for Christ<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1245,1243,1244,1246],"class_list":["post-3280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-all-american-muslim","tag-florida-family-association","tag-lowes","tag-tlc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3280"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3285,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3280\/revisions\/3285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}