{"id":6007,"date":"2013-10-02T08:58:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T14:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6007"},"modified":"2013-10-02T08:58:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T14:58:24","slug":"model-t-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=6007","title":{"rendered":"Model T Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"

A hat tip to Wren at The Witches’ Voice<\/em><\/a>, who posted on Facebook a news item about a parliamentarian in Kuwait, Abdulrahman Al-Jeeran, who is upset about the sale of non-Islamic statuary in Kuwaiti gift shops.<\/a><\/p>\n

He revealed that statues representing gods believed by non-Muslim pagan worshippers during the primitive era are commonly seen at various shopping malls across the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He is not against freedom of religion, however, as he explained in this brain-twisting statement:<\/p>\n

He explained that he was not trying to restrict the society to believing only one religion; however, he stressed that God Almighty commands human beings to accept faith without any alternative. He further stressed that issuing such a ban will protect future generations from deviating from the path of faith<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Or as Henry Ford said c. 1922 about the Ford Model T car<\/a>, “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A hat tip to Wren at The Witches’ Voice, who posted on Facebook a news item about a parliamentarian in Kuwait, Abdulrahman Al-Jeeran, who is upset about the sale of non-Islamic statuary in Kuwaiti gift shops. He revealed that statues representing gods believed by non-Muslim pagan worshippers during the primitive era are commonly seen at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[164,15],"class_list":["post-6007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-idolatry","tag-islam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-1yT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5710,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=5710","url_meta":{"origin":6007,"position":0},"title":"Polish Pagans Hold Congress","author":"Chas S. 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