{"id":154,"date":"2008-02-04T20:20:34","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T00:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=154"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:36:49","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:36:49","slug":"muslim-soldier-loses-free-exercise-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/04\/muslim-soldier-loses-free-exercise-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Soldier Loses &#8220;Free Exercise&#8221; Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/religionclause.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/military-court-upholds-conviction-of.html\">Religion Clause<\/a> notes a recent military appeals court decision (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jagcnet.army.mil\/JAGCNETInternet\/Homepages\/AC\/ACCA1.nsf\/ODD\/7DA5E8EBE657104A852573E1004EC0AD\/$FILE\/oc-webster,%20aw.pdf\"><em>US v Webster<\/em><\/a>) that found a Muslim soldier who &#8220;missed movement&#8221; (was absent from his unit&#8217;s deployment) was rightfully convicted.<\/p>\n<p>The soldier had pled guilty, then sought to reverse that plea.\u00a0 The soldier&#8217;s initial contention was that he could not deploy to Iraq because his internet research of Muslims had led him to believe that it was wrong to kill fellow Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>This advice was not only inconsistent with what the Muslim Chaplain said, but it was also irrelevant:\u00a0 his commander gave him the opportunity to deploy in a non-combatant role.\u00a0 He filed conscientious objector status on the same day he missed movement; the court noted that CO status applied to those who objected to war, not to those who objected to one aspect of a certain war.\u00a0 The court also affirmed that his commander attempted to accomodate the soldier&#8217;s religious beliefs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Religion Clause notes a recent military appeals court decision (US v Webster) that found a Muslim soldier who &#8220;missed movement&#8221; (was absent from his unit&#8217;s deployment) was rightfully convicted. The soldier had pled guilty, then sought to reverse that plea.\u00a0 The soldier&#8217;s initial contention was that he could not deploy to Iraq because his internet research of Muslims had [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[44,2,10],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-regulations","tag-islam","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","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=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}