{"id":185,"date":"2008-05-15T18:02:12","date_gmt":"2008-05-15T22:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2015-06-27T19:16:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T22:16:58","slug":"religious-objection-to-military-autopsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/15\/religious-objection-to-military-autopsy\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Objection to Military Autopsy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As noted at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alliancealert.org\/2008\/05\/15\/muslim-soldier-wife-raise-issue-over-sons-death\/\">ADF<\/a>, the AP has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotte.com\/204\/story\/624124.html\">reported<\/a> that an\u00a0Army Private\u00a0contacted the Military Religious Freedom Foundation after the Army autopsied his deceased infant son.\u00a0 The Private indicated that he was Muslim and objected to the autopsy on religious grounds.\u00a0 Reports indicate that the MRFF plans to include this, as everything else, in their ongoing lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>While the situation is regrettable, it is not isolated to this military case or this religion.\u00a0 Many government offices perform autopsies over the religious objections of the family, and the courts have apparently supported their ability to do so&#8211;particularly when the cause of death is suspect, as it was in this case.\u00a0 It is not, then, a case of military &#8220;anti-Islamic prejudice and bigotry,&#8221; as Michael Weinstein asserts.<\/p>\n<p>It is also worth noting that the religious opposition to autopsy is equally valid in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic faiths.\u00a0 There is no objection to the practice in their core doctrines, though &#8220;interpretation&#8221; in each could lead to the conclusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As noted at the ADF, the AP has reported that an\u00a0Army Private\u00a0contacted the Military Religious Freedom Foundation after the Army autopsied his deceased infant son.\u00a0 The Private indicated that he was Muslim and objected to the autopsy on religious grounds.\u00a0 Reports indicate that the MRFF plans to include this, as everything else, in their ongoing lawsuit. While the situation is [&#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":[4,44,2,5218,7,10],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-regulations","tag-churchandstate","tag-islam","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","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=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}