{"id":4316,"date":"2014-08-14T17:17:20","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T17:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=4316"},"modified":"2014-08-18T16:00:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T16:00:13","slug":"wcco-good-question-answered-andy-aoki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2014\/08\/14\/wcco-good-question-answered-andy-aoki\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Aoki answers WCCO &#8216;Good Question&#8217; on ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/WCCO.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3910\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/WCCO.jpeg\" alt=\"WCCO\" width=\"109\" height=\"106\" \/><\/a>Professor Andy Aoki\u00a0spoke with WCCO-TV about the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, known as ISIS, for the\u00a0news station&#8217;s Good Question. Aoki, who teaches in the College&#8217;s political science department, explained to television viewers that ISIS is an extreme militant group that has been disavowed by Al Qaeda. He commented that this relatively young organization is rare, in part, because unlike most of history&#8217;s other horrific killers, this group isn&#8217;t trying to hide any of its actions. &#8220;It\u2019s rare to find a group like this that\u2019s not even embarrassed. Even the Nazis were denying some of the things they did. If you look at some of the most horrific killers the last 30 or 40 years, they\u2019ve got to be in the top 5 so far,&#8221;\u00a0he told viewers. Watch\u00a0&#8220;<a title=\"Who is ISIS\" href=\"http:\/\/minnesota.cbslocal.com\/2014\/08\/11\/good-question-who-is-isis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Good Question: Who is ISIS<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Andy Aoki\u00a0spoke with WCCO-TV about the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, known as ISIS, for the\u00a0news station&#8217;s Good Question. Aoki, who teaches in the College&#8217;s political science department, explained to television viewers that ISIS is an extreme militant group that has been disavowed by Al Qaeda. He commented that this relatively young organization &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[194,1412,3300,3301,3087],"class_list":["post-4316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-staff","tag-aoki","tag-iraq","tag-isis","tag-syria","tag-wcco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4316"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4368,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions\/4368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}