{"id":3532,"date":"2011-12-09T22:06:56","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T03:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=3532"},"modified":"2011-12-09T22:06:56","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T03:06:56","slug":"which-comes-first-islam-or-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=3532","title":{"rendered":"Which comes first – Islam or the Desert?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple years ago, I heard someone say on a radio show the implication that wherever Islam goes, deserts follow….\u00a0 a pretty dangerous thing to say.<\/p>\n

My initial reaction is that goats and sheep are well known for causing desertification.\u00a0\u00a0 Does traditional Islamic \/ Arab animal cultivation cause deserts, or does Islam spread into lands that have become deserts?<\/p>\n

Or neither one?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple years ago, I heard someone say on a radio show the implication that wherever Islam goes, deserts follow….\u00a0 a pretty dangerous thing to say. My initial reaction is that goats and sheep are well known for causing desertification.\u00a0\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-finances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3534,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3532\/revisions\/3534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}