{"id":37658,"date":"2019-02-16T01:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T06:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=37658"},"modified":"2019-01-16T08:59:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T13:59:34","slug":"qotd-the-attraction-of-islam-to-would-be-converts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/02\/16\/qotd-the-attraction-of-islam-to-would-be-converts\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The attraction of Islam to would-be converts"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8230; humans are hierarchical apes who crave rules. The astonishing number of western converts to Islam (astonishing considering what Islam is as a way of life) particularly the women shows the craving for rules, spoken and unspoken is far stronger than rationality. And the fact that young men aren\u2019t converting <em>en masse<\/em> to Islam (which gives them a much greater power than any western culture) means some traces of <em>Noblesse Oblige<\/em> remain. The idea of keeping your women imprisoned and veiled for their protection; the idea that those other men will of course rape them and hurt them; the idea that strange women are fair game, are still revolting and repulsive to men who were told \u201cnever hit a girl. Never, ever, ever\u201d as little boys.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Hoyt, <a href=\"http:\/\/accordingtohoyt.com\/2015\/05\/05\/noblesse-oblige-and-mares-nests\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Noblesse Oblige and Mare\u2019s Nests&#8221;, <em>According to Hoyt<\/em><\/a>, 2015-05-05.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; humans are hierarchical apes who crave rules. The astonishing number of western converts to Islam (astonishing considering what Islam is as a way of life) particularly the women shows the craving for rules, spoken and unspoken is far stronger than rationality. And the fact that young men aren\u2019t converting en masse to Islam (which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"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":[41,11],"tags":[262,47,303],"class_list":["post-37658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotations","category-religion","tag-culture","tag-islam","tag-sexism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9No","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37659,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37658\/revisions\/37659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}