This past week there was an explosion roughly a few blocks from my house. It was a car bombing, here in Beirut that most people have heard about. As a result, a lot of people ask me, “Don’t you feel afraid?”<\/p>\n
Short answer, “no”. If you look at crime rates in the Middle East, and then compare them to those of the States or South Africa, you will see quickly that a lot less people die from violence in Lebanon, than in those countries.<\/p>\n
For example in Houston read this report<\/a>.\u00a0You will notice that thousands of people are being murdered per year. Here in this report<\/a> you can see how Lebanon ranks among the world in regards to people who die from “Murder” etc,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This past week there was an explosion roughly a few blocks from my house. It was a car bombing, here in Beirut that most people have heard about. As a result, a lot of people ask me, “Don’t you feel afraid?” Short answer, “no”. If you look at crime rates in the Middle East, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsforchrist.org\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsforchrist.org\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsforchrist.org\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsforchrist.org\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsforchrist.org\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arabsforchrist.org\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/arabsforchrist.org\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabsforchrist.org\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsforchrist.org\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabsforchrist.org\/updates\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}