{"id":17944,"date":"2012-05-31T01:37:14","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T04:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17944"},"modified":"2012-05-31T01:37:14","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T04:37:14","slug":"muslim-us-chaplain-exchanges-with-jordanian-imams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/31\/muslim-us-chaplain-exchanges-with-jordanian-imams\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslim US Chaplain Exchanges with Jordanian Imams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Navy Chaplain (LtCmdr) Abuhena Saifulislam was recently part of US Central Command&#8217;s Exercise Eager Lion 12, where he was able to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/88930\/centcom-muslim-chaplain-interacts-with-jordanian-armed-forces-imams\">work with the Jordanian military<\/a> and their religious leaders.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17946\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/saifislam-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/saifislam-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/saifislam.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0He<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>got a first-hand look at how other countries handle <!--more-->the intricacies of mixing Islam and military life at a religious leaders&#8217; conference&#8230;[which] allowed Jordanian and U.S. chaplains to share information on day-to-day operations, the use of chaplains&#8217; assistants, and how to balance military and religious responsibility.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The chaplain, whose name has the interesting translation of &#8220;Sword of Islam,&#8221; said the Jordanian imams were curious about his exposure to other religious groups and his experiences holding a minority faith.<\/p>\n<p>US military chaplains protect the Constitutionally protected rights of religion of US troops, but they also do much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Navy Chaplain (LtCmdr) Abuhena Saifulislam was recently part of US Central Command&#8217;s Exercise Eager Lion 12, where he was able to work with the Jordanian military and their religious leaders. \u00a0He got a first-hand look at how other countries handle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1484,677,5284,44,3031,2,36,10,171],"class_list":["post-17944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-abuhena-saifulislam","tag-centcom","tag-chaplain","tag-islam","tag-jordan","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17944","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=17944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}