{"id":1840,"date":"2016-05-10T18:23:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T08:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=1840"},"modified":"2016-05-10T18:23:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T08:23:30","slug":"a-christian-could-never-be-elected-mayor-in-a-muslim-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=1840","title":{"rendered":"A CHRISTIAN COULD NEVER BE ELECTED MAYOR IN A MUSLIM CITY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmichaelfrost6%2Fposts%2F10153765724421731&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"287\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A CHRISTIAN COULD NEVER BE ELECTED MAYOR IN A MUSLIM CITY!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Since Sadiq Khan&#8217;s election as the first Muslim Mayor of London, many people have suggested that no Muslim city would ever be open-minded enough to elect a Christian as mayor or to any other high office. Umm, really? What about the following:<\/p>\n<p>* The Turkish city of Mardin recently elected its first female Christian mayor, Februniye Akyol. Turkey is 96.5% Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>* The mayor of Ramallah, the capital of Palestine, is Janet Mikhail, a Roman Catholic.<\/p>\n<p>* The capital of the world&#8217;s most populous Muslim country, Indonesia, has a Christian governor, Basuki Tjahaya Purnama. Indonesia is 87.2% Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>* In 2005 Alees Salman became the first Christian and first woman to chair Bahrain&#8217;s upper house of Parliament. Bahrain is 70% Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>* Pakistan currently has a Christian minister of ports and shipping, Kamran Michael. Pakistan is 96.4% Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>* Boutros Boutros Ghali, a coptic Christian and former head of the UN, was Egypt&#8217;s Foreign Minister for 14 years. Egypt is 90% Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>* Senegal had a Catholic president, L\u00e9opold S\u00e9dar Senghor, for 20 years. Senegal is 92% Muslim.<\/p>\n<p>* Lebanon had a Christian president, Michel Suleiman, from 2008-2014. Lebanon is 54% Muslim.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;A CHRISTIAN COULD NEVER BE ELECTED MAYOR IN A MUSLIM CITY!&#8221; Since Sadiq Khan&#8217;s election as the first Muslim Mayor of London, many people have suggested that no Muslim city would ever be open-minded enough to elect a Christian as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/?p=1840\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"yes","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,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":1263,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ttSq-tG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1840"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1842,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840\/revisions\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.khanfactor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}