{"id":17580,"date":"2012-05-03T01:00:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T04:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17580"},"modified":"2012-05-02T23:28:22","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T02:28:22","slug":"west-point-cadets-attend-islamic-prayers-for-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/03\/west-point-cadets-attend-islamic-prayers-for-class\/","title":{"rendered":"West Point Cadets Attend Islamic Prayers for Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of West Point cadets recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/2012\/04\/27\/west-point-cadets-visit-nj-city-to-see-diversity\/\">bunked at a mosque and attended Islamic prayers<\/a> as part of an ongoing course called &#8220;Winning the Peace.&#8221;\u00a0 The 23 cadets traveled to Jersey City, where they attended religious events associated with Islam, Coptic Christianity, Judaism, and Hinduism.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During the visit to Jersey City, the 23 cadets in the class stay overnight at a mosque and attend Islamic prayers. They also <!--more-->go to an Egyptian Coptic Christian church, a synagogue and a Hindu religious service, and sample the foods of the cultures they encounter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While the article slightly hypes the course, it does note it is in its 8th year.\u00a0 It was originally <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/13\/cadets-experience-religions\/\">discussed here<\/a> more than 4 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Exposure to different religious beliefs is an excellent means of expanding cultural understanding.\u00a0 Of course, both that statement and the field trip itself seem to assume the American stereotype:\u00a0 That is, it assumes the West Point cadets aren&#8217;t Muslims, Jews, Hindus, or Coptic Christians.\u00a0 Given the minority nature of those faiths, that&#8217;s understandable, though in other contexts people would probably be complaining.\u00a0 After all, the cadets not only observe, they have <em>participated <\/em>in the religious exercises themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine what Michael Weinstein would say if West Point sent its non-&#8220;evangelical Christian&#8221; cadets on a field trip to hear a mega-church sermon and asked them to stay for the potluck?<\/p>\n<p class=\"smallfont\">Also at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/2012\/04\/ap-west-point-cadets-jersey-city-042712\/\">ArmyTimes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of West Point cadets recently bunked at a mosque and attended Islamic prayers as part of an ongoing course called &#8220;Winning the Peace.&#8221;\u00a0 The 23 cadets traveled to Jersey City, where they attended religious events associated with Islam, Coptic Christianity, Judaism, and Hinduism. During the visit to Jersey City, the 23 cadets in the class stay overnight at [&#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":[3224,73,44,3223,39,85,2,10,231,101,3222],"class_list":["post-17580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-coptic-christian","tag-hindu","tag-islam","tag-jersey","tag-jewish","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-usma","tag-west-point","tag-winning-the-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17580","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=17580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}