{"id":6445,"date":"2017-02-10T22:16:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T22:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/02\/13\/muslims-and-refugees-have-been-integral-part-of-greenville\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:55:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:55:25","slug":"muslims-and-refugees-have-been-integral-part-of-greenville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/muslims-and-refugees-have-been-integral-part-of-greenville\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslims and refugees, integral part of Greenville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman religion professor Alfons Teipen adds to the voices railing against President Trump and his temporary travel ban he imposed late January. In a commentary for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/contributors\/2017\/02\/09\/commentary-muslims-and-refugees-have-been-integral-part-greenville\/97698832\/\"><em><strong>The Greenville News<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, Teipen looks at immigrants, both local and national, who have enhanced the way we live in the United States. He admonishes us to &#8220;&#8230;make sure that this\u00a0country of ours stays free of unfounded fears and suspicions, and continues to be fortified by the bravery of fellow humans just like these.&#8221; Teipen has taught religion at Furman since 1997.\u00a0 His areas of specialty include Islam and Abrahamic religions, and he serves as chair of Furman&#8217;s Middle East and Islamic Studies minor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman religion professor Alfons Teipen adds to the voices railing against President Trump and his temporary travel ban he imposed late January. In a commentary for The Greenville News, Teipen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":6209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-religion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445","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=6445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}