{"id":7107,"date":"2017-12-14T16:20:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T16:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2017\/12\/14\/anti-muslim-tweets-dangerous-for-our-country\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:59:53","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:59:53","slug":"anti-muslim-tweets-dangerous-for-our-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/anti-muslim-tweets-dangerous-for-our-country\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Muslim tweets dangerous for our country"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_35160\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35160\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35160 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/Johnna-Malici-350x262-portrait-medium.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 225px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 225\/300;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-35160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Columnist Johnna Malici<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Guest columnists Johnna Malici, a\u00a0Muslim American, and Melinda Menzer, a Jewish American and Furman English professor, collaborate on an opinion piece in <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/opinion\/2017\/12\/13\/opinion-anti-muslim-tweets-dangerous-our-country\/940347001\/\">The Greenville News<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>about the troubling social media habits of President Donald Trump. In it, they draw comparisons to the hate-mongering that took place in Nazi Germany that fueled the Holocaust. While readers might think such a comparison is a stretch, Malici and Menzer say, &#8220;Trump and his collaborators are priming the masses into the normalization of hate, all through purposeful misinformation. As a result, Muslims, Jews, and other minority groups are experiencing serious repercussions &#8230; The dangers of his rhetoric are real and are affecting Americans and America every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Johnna Malici\u00a0is a member of the Islamic Society of Greenville. Melinda Menzer is a congregant at the Temple of Israel in Greenville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest columnists Johnna Malici, a\u00a0Muslim American, and Melinda Menzer, a Jewish American and Furman English professor, collaborate on an opinion piece in The Greenville News\u00a0about the troubling social media habits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":6933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-english","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107","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=7107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}