{"id":21505,"date":"2013-02-20T02:24:47","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T05:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=21505"},"modified":"2016-11-26T01:50:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T04:50:00","slug":"christian-pastor-jailed-as-national-security-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/20\/christian-pastor-jailed-as-national-security-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Pastor Jailed as National Security Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Think it can&#8217;t happen here?<\/p>\n<p>Saeed Abedini is the Christian pastor who has been jailed\u00a0for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpnews.net\/bpnews.asp?id=39592\">threatening the national security of Iran<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Saeed Abedini, 32, was in Iran last summer to finish building an orphanage when members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard took him away in a bus for prison. He has been held captive and reportedly beaten and tortured since September.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Abedini, a naturalized US citizen, was\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>sentenced to eight years in a notoriously harsh Iranian prison Sunday (Jan. 27) for &#8220;threatening the national security of Iran&#8221; by planting Christian house churches.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, there&#8217;s actually an <em>American charity <\/em>that claims Christianity is a &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/09\/airmans-bible-controversy-continues\/\">national security threat<\/a>&#8221; &#8212; none other than Michael Weinstein&#8217;s &#8220;Military Religious Freedom Foundation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It seems Weinstein&#8217;s values\u00a0are more in line with the religious extremists of Iran than the US Constitution.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Think it can&#8217;t happen here? Saeed Abedini is the Christian pastor who has been jailed\u00a0for &#8220;threatening the national security of Iran.&#8221; Saeed Abedini, 32, was in Iran last summer to finish building an orphanage when members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard took him away in a bus for prison. He has been held captive and reportedly beaten and tortured since [&#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":[82,1178,85,2,5218,7,10,171,3879],"class_list":["post-21505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-constitution","tag-iran","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-saeed-abedini"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21505","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=21505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}