{"id":24978,"date":"2019-05-07T07:09:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T05:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.radioislam.org.za\/wordpress\/2019\/05\/07\/african-dawn-episode-1\/"},"modified":"2019-05-07T07:09:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T05:09:52","slug":"african-dawn-episode-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/african-dawn-episode-1\/","title":{"rendered":"African Dawn Episode 1 &#8211; Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2019-05-07<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the introduction to our Ramadan series on the history and pioneers of\u00a0Islam in South Africa, we explore how South Africa has come to shine forth\u00a0as a haven for Muslims despite the Islamic faith arriving on these shores\u00a0in the most trying of circumstances. Why was it that Muslims did not\u00a0dissolve away as has occurred to so many other minorities in similar\u00a0circumstances. What was the calibre of our founding fathers and what were\u00a0their lofty intentions. Ultimately what is the debt we owe to them in\u00a0taking their legacy forward&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/616881267&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a title=\"African Dawn Episode 1\" href=\"https:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/616881267\/download?client_id=LBCcHmRB8XSStWL6wKH2HPACspQlXg2P\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"alternate noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2019-05-07 In the introduction to our Ramadan series on the history and pioneers of\u00a0Islam in South Africa, we explore how South Africa has come to shine forth\u00a0as a haven for Muslims despite the Islamic faith arriving on these shores\u00a0in the most trying of circumstances. Why was it that Muslims did not\u00a0dissolve away as has occurred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[207],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentaries"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-6uS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-18 20:07:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}