{"id":18830,"date":"2012-07-26T02:52:08","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T05:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=18830"},"modified":"2013-08-04T23:47:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-05T02:47:55","slug":"pentagon-grateful-for-muslims-on-front-lines-great-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/26\/pentagon-grateful-for-muslims-on-front-lines-great-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Grateful for Muslims on Front Lines, &#8220;Great Religion&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when some critics accuse the US military of being too cozy with religion, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta hosted an <em>iftar <\/em>at the Pentagon to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/\/speeches\/speech.aspx?speechid=1713\">celebrate a great religion<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We\u2019re grateful to be able to host this Iftar Dinner at the Pentagon and share in one of the great traditions of the Muslim faith&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>During the decade of war that has followed [the 9\/11] attacks, I am <strong>grateful that Muslim Americans have been fighting for <!--more-->America <\/strong>on the front lines.\u00a0 They have sacrificed a great deal for our country.\u00a0 On behalf of all Americans, I thank them and thank all of our troops for their service and for their sacrifice.<\/p>\n<p>We are able to enjoy the blessings of liberty because of their willingness to put their lives on this line for this country.\u00a0 So, as we take part in this Iftar <strong>let us celebrate a great religion<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Anyone remember\u00a0a US military leader saying they were &#8220;grateful&#8221; for Christians on the front lines of America&#8217;s military?\u00a0 Anybody in the US government call Judaism a &#8220;great religion&#8221; recently?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><em><strong>Update<\/strong><\/em><\/span>: An official military press release on the event was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?id=117269\">published here<\/a>\u00a0and the US Army version was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/article\/84439\/Muslim_service_members__DOD_personnel__celebrate_Iftar_dinner_at_Pentagon\/\">published here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when some critics accuse the US military of being too cozy with religion, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta hosted an iftar at the Pentagon to &#8220;celebrate a great religion.&#8221; We\u2019re grateful to be able to host this Iftar Dinner at the Pentagon and share in one of the great traditions of the Muslim faith&#8230; During the decade [&#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":[96,962,44,1977,2,63,17,10,171,1180],"class_list":["post-18830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-christian","tag-iftar","tag-islam","tag-leon-panetta","tag-military","tag-pentagon","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-secretary-of-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18830","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=18830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}