{"id":1022,"date":"2009-09-08T00:15:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T04:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=1022"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:29:21","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:29:21","slug":"islamic-us-soldiers-balance-religion-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/08\/islamic-us-soldiers-balance-religion-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Islamic US Soldiers Balance Religion, Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic US Army soldiers in Iraq, including Spc. Linda Boyed and Spc. Fatima Benasser, two Arabic interpreters, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/-news\/2009\/09\/02\/26857-ramadan-kareem\/\">note the challenges<\/a> in exercising their faith during Ramadan while still executing their mission.<\/p>\n<p>Finding time to pray in a high op tempo can be difficult, <!--more-->and there is no mosque on Joint Base Balad.\u00a0 Still, they are able to use the military chapels, which serve all faiths.\u00a0 They say that fasting can be difficult or even impossible where duties are physically rigorous.<\/p>\n<p>As with all religions, the US military accommodates free exercise to the extent that it does not negatively impact the mission.\u00a0 In addition, Chaplains will assist any military member to the maximum extent possible in meeting their spiritual requirements (including &#8220;secular&#8221; spiritual requirements, if the situation so requires).\u00a0 Should free exercise or accommodation ever be an issue in the military, contact your Chaplain as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/-images\/2009\/09\/02\/49569\/army.mil-49569-2009-09-02-040939.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DoD Photo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/ramadanpray1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">DoD Photo<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamic US Army soldiers in Iraq, including Spc. Linda Boyed and Spc. Fatima Benasser, two Arabic interpreters, note the challenges in exercising their faith during Ramadan while still executing their mission. Finding time to pray in a high op tempo can be difficult,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[52,44,2,11,80,10],"class_list":["post-1022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-iraq","tag-islam","tag-military","tag-prayer","tag-ramadan","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}