{"id":22125,"date":"2026-04-17T17:32:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22125"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:32:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T17:32:56","slug":"tom-holland-de-radicalising-muhammad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22125","title":{"rendered":"Tom Holland &#8216;De-Radicalising Muhammad&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If we take the literal purported lives of certain historical religious figures like Muhammad as a way to live our own lives, then that leads to immoral and barbarous behavior. It is better to see them as inspirations in some spiritual or mystical way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Tom Holland &#039;De-Radicalising Muhammad&#039;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I5slk97ss2Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we take the literal purported lives of certain historical religious figures like Muhammad as a way to live our own lives, then that leads to immoral and barbarous behavior. It is better to see them as inspirations in some spiritual or mystical way. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I5slk97ss2Q<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2059,770,1047,1111,391,1082,57,108,115],"class_list":["post-22125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-fundamentalism","tag-history","tag-islam","tag-islamism","tag-middle-east","tag-prophet-muhammad","tag-religion","tag-terrorism","tag-terrorists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22127,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22125\/revisions\/22127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}