{"id":4860,"date":"2010-10-07T00:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T04:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4860"},"modified":"2010-10-08T11:26:34","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T15:26:34","slug":"hooper-claims-that-thriving-christian-and-jewish-populations-live-in-middle-east-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/?p=4860","title":{"rendered":"Hooper claims that Middle East countries have &#8220;thriving Christian and Jewish populations&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Political Influence Operation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> August 7, 2010<\/p>\n<p><strong>Description:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic   relations, claims that &#8220;there are lots of Christian  churches and  synagogues in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey,  Jordan,  Indonesia, Qatar, Kuwait. \u2026 If you go to any number of so-called  Muslim  countries you will see thriving Christian and Jewish  populations. The  only one where you don&#8217;t see it, where you can&#8217;t have a  Christian  church or synagogue is Saudi Arabia,&#8221; Hooper said.&#8221; He also noted that  one member of the Iranian parliament is Jewish.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/politifact-most-muslim-countries-allow-churches-synagogues\/1126477\">http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/politifact-most-muslim-countries-allow-churches-synagogues\/1126477<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/thriving-populations.pdf\">(PDF Backup)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Political Influence Operation Date: August 7, 2010 Description: Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic relations, claims that &#8220;there are lots of Christian churches and synagogues in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Jordan, Indonesia, Qatar, Kuwait. \u2026 If you go to any number of so-called Muslim countries you will see thriving Christian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[115,148,121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-115","category-iran-political-influence-operations","category-iraq"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cairunmasked.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}