{"id":306,"date":"2009-03-28T12:55:15","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T16:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=306"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:32:27","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:32:27","slug":"gitmo-guard-converts-to-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/28\/gitmo-guard-converts-to-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"US Army Guant\u00e1namo Guard Converted to Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an era where the most vocal concern about religion in the military is “illegal Christian proselytizing,” Newsweek carries the opposite side of the story<\/a>: a US Army soldier who was “proselytized” by the Islamic prisoners he oversaw.<\/p>\n

Army specialist Terry Holdbrooks [of the 463rd Military Police Company] had been a guard at Guant\u00e1namo for about six months the night he had his life-altering conversation with detainee 590, a Moroccan also known as “the General” [in]\u00a0early 2004…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Holdbrooks is described in the article as “a contrarian” who can “also be conspiratorial,” noting that<\/p>\n

When his company visited the site of the 9\/11 attacks in New York, Holdbrooks remembers thinking there had to be a broader explanation, and that the Bush administration must have colluded somehow in the plot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With regard to his duties while at Guantanamo after his conversion, the article also recounts an “intervention” that occurred with a group of other soldiers–not because of\u00a0his religious conversion, but because of his degree of increasing familiarity with the prisoners:<\/p>\n

They heard detainees calling him Mustapha, and saw that Holdbrooks was studying Arabic openly…One night his squad leader took him to a yard behind his living quarters, where five guards were waiting to stage a kind of intervention. “They started yelling at me,” he recalls, “asking if I was a traitor, if I was switching sides.” At one point a squad leader pulled back his fist and the two men traded blows, Holdbrooks says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This article was also noted at Muslim Military Members<\/a>\u00a0(as previously highlighted<\/a>), which is<\/p>\n

an organization providing information, communication, and coordination for Muslims in the US Armed Forces.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an era where the most vocal concern about religion in the military is “illegal Christian proselytizing,” Newsweek carries the opposite side of the story: a US Army soldier who was “proselytized” by the Islamic prisoners he oversaw. Army specialist Terry Holdbrooks [of the 463rd Military Police Company] had been a guard at Guant\u00e1namo for about six months the night […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[44,2,10],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-islam","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","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=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}