{"id":300,"date":"2007-06-24T12:56:18","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T16:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=300"},"modified":"2007-06-24T12:56:18","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T16:56:18","slug":"horrible-historical-irony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=300","title":{"rendered":"Horrible historical irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know that silly trope about anti-Semitism: &#8220;You can&#8217;t call me an anti-Semite because that would mean I hated Arabs, too&#8221;. Well, it turns out to have had some foundation in the nineteenth century. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcgill.ca\/islamicstudies\/faculty\/jamil-ragep\/\">Jamil Ragep,<\/a> there was a very notable tendency in nineteenth Century scholarship for the Germans to value Islamic science much more highly than the French. This was partly because the most influential French writer on the subject was Ernest Renan, who was anxious to prove that religion was all darkness as part of the secularisation wars, partly because a number of the German scholars involved were Jewish, and therefore anxious to point out the &#8220;Semitic&#8221; contributions to Western civilisation. So they searched out every Arab achievement they could find.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know that silly trope about anti-Semitism: &#8220;You can&#8217;t call me an anti-Semite because that would mean I hated Arabs, too&#8221;. Well, it turns out to have had some foundation in the nineteenth century. According to Jamil Ragep, there was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=300\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=300\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}