{"id":1020,"date":"2015-02-16T11:20:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T11:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgeandkaren.info\/site\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2015-02-16T11:20:23","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T11:20:23","slug":"birming-no-ham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgeandkaren.info\/site\/birming-no-ham\/","title":{"rendered":"Birming-NO-ham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2908019\/Hilarious-responses-foxnewsfacts-claim-Birmingham-Muslim-city.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-1021 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/georgeandkaren.info\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/queen-with-headscarf-birmingham-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"queen with headscarf birmingham\" width=\"347\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/georgeandkaren.info\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/queen-with-headscarf-birmingham-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/georgeandkaren.info\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/queen-with-headscarf-birmingham-581x700.jpg 581w, https:\/\/georgeandkaren.info\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/queen-with-headscarf-birmingham.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently a Fox News pundit asserted that Birmingham is a &#8220;totally Muslim city&#8221; to which &#8220;non-Muslims do not go.&#8221; The blunder prompted a flurry of comedic responses.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>local band &#8220;Duran Duran&#8221; is renamed &#8220;Quran Quran&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>the largest fast-food chain in the city is &#8220;Burqa King&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Birmingham is now SO Muslim that they recently voted to remove &#8220;ham&#8221; from the name<\/li>\n<li>and then there&#8217;s the tweet about the Queen&#8217;s headscarf&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to the 2011 census, Birmingham is 46.1% Christian, 21.8% Muslim, and 19.3% non-religious, so the Fox expert was clearly misinformed. But does that mean all is well in Birmingham? I know of white English people who avoid a Muslim neighbourhood (one we frequent) because they feel unwelcome. On the other hand, I know of Muslim people who avoid going to a white working-class area for fear of being harassed by non-Muslims. Apparently the &#8216;no-go&#8217; knife cuts both ways. There is tension between communities but little integration. And so, in our context, having freedom to preach the gospel assumes a component of promoting social cohesion. Walls of suspicion broken by friendship and caring gain you a hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, George has been walking in the evenings with Muslim neighbor &#8220;Danny&#8221; in order to gain such a hearing (mentioned in a previous post). Karen spends her days loving her Muslim ladies by helping them to read. May God grant them all faith.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Faith comes from hearing the message&#8221; (Romans 10:17).<\/p>\n<p>Your prayers and support are much appreciated!<\/p>\n<p>Yours ever,<\/p>\n<p>George and Karen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently a Fox News pundit asserted that Birmingham is a &#8220;totally Muslim city&#8221; to which &#8220;non-Muslims do not go.&#8221; The blunder prompted a flurry of comedic responses. local band &#8220;Duran Duran&#8221; is renamed &#8220;Quran Quran&#8221; the largest fast-food chain in the city is &#8220;Burqa King&#8221; Birmingham is now SO Muslim that they recently voted to [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgeandkaren.info\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgeandkaren.info\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgeandkaren.info\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgeandkaren.info\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgeandkaren.info\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/georgeandkaren.info\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030,"href":"https:\/\/georgeandkaren.info\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions\/1030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgeandkaren.info\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgeandkaren.info\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgeandkaren.info\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}