{"id":13188,"date":"2011-09-16T01:30:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T06:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=13188"},"modified":"2011-09-16T01:07:17","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T06:07:17","slug":"us-national-guard-values-muslim-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/16\/us-national-guard-values-muslim-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"US National Guard &#8220;Values Muslim Tradition&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Air Force General Craig McKinley is the Chief of the National Guard Bureau.\u00a0 He recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/76658\/national-guard-values-muslim-tradition-builds-relationships-year-round-with-spp\">hosted an Islamic <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/76658\/national-guard-values-muslim-tradition-builds-relationships-year-round-with-spp\">iftar<\/a> <\/em>in Washington, DC.\u00a0 The dinner highlighted the Guard&#8217;s &#8220;State Partnership Program&#8221; through which the Guard &#8220;foster[s] relationships with Muslim and Muslim-majority nations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With several senior Muslim and National Guard leaders in attendance for the dinner, Imam Mohamed Magid, the executive director of <!--more-->the All Dulles area Muslim Society Center, spoke to the benefits the State Partnership Program offers to the National Guard and its Muslim partners.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have Muslims, people of other faith and ethnicities and cultural backgrounds serving side-by-side,&#8221; Magid said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In an interesting comparison, Magid noted the commonality between the Guard and Islam:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Magid said the common values of service, loving your neighbors and caring about those who are in need are &#8220;values that [the Muslim community and the National Guard] have in common.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Air Force General Craig McKinley is the Chief of the National Guard Bureau.\u00a0 He recently hosted an Islamic iftar in Washington, DC.\u00a0 The dinner highlighted the Guard&#8217;s &#8220;State Partnership Program&#8221; through which the Guard &#8220;foster[s] relationships with Muslim and Muslim-majority nations.&#8221; With several senior Muslim and National Guard leaders in attendance for the dinner, Imam Mohamed Magid, the executive [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[4,2207,962,44,2,2208,2066,80,10],"class_list":["post-13188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-churchandstate","tag-craig-mckinley","tag-iftar","tag-islam","tag-military","tag-mohamed-magid","tag-national-guard","tag-ramadan","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13188","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=13188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}