{"id":4236,"date":"2015-12-11T16:50:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T16:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/12\/11\/malici-we-must-starve-clash-of-civilizations-narrative\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:50:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:50:04","slug":"malici-we-must-starve-clash-of-civilizations-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/malici-we-must-starve-clash-of-civilizations-narrative\/","title":{"rendered":"Malici: We must starve \u201cclash of civilizations\u201d narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newsimg.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/akan-malici-cropped.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-19539 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/akan-malici-cropped-medium.jpg\" alt=\"akan malici cropped\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/259;\" \/><\/a>While sensational and headline-grabbing, political rhetoric directed at Muslims \u201cplays into the hands of terrorist propaganda that America is at war with Islam,\u201d says Furman University Political Science Professor Akan Malici. He describes how feeding the \u201cclash of civilizations\u201d narrative is counterproductive to defeating ISIS, and urges us to focus on American democracy and values. Read more in the opinion piece Malici wrote for the <a href=\"http:\/\/greenvillejournal.com\/opinions\/5138-don-t-let-the-terrorists-or-the-demagogues-win.html\">Greenville Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While sensational and headline-grabbing, political rhetoric directed at Muslims \u201cplays into the hands of terrorist propaganda that America is at war with Islam,\u201d says Furman University Political Science Professor Akan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":15646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}