{"id":3158,"date":"2010-01-18T00:38:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T08:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=3158"},"modified":"2010-01-17T21:26:32","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T05:26:32","slug":"senate-to-military-add-islamic-extremism-to-banned-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/18\/senate-to-military-add-islamic-extremism-to-banned-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate to Military: Add Islamic Extremism to Banned Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Senate committee is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.airforcetimes.com\/news\/2010\/01\/ap_hood_extremism_011310\/\">recommending that Islamic extremism<\/a> be added to the list of groups that military members are prohibited from participating in or associating with.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Defense Department&#8217;s existing policies for dealing with personnel that become involved in gangs and racist groups need to be expanded to cover new avenues of violence, [Sen. Joe] Lieberman [I-CT] and [Sen Susan] Collins [R-ME] say.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The two also encouraged the military to educate its members to be able to distinguish between &#8220;violent Islamist extremism&#8221; and &#8220;the practice of the Islamic faith.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the Senators&#8217; well-intentioned recommendations are not nearly as simple as they seem to imply.\u00a0 They present a labyrinth of logistical, political, and religious liberty issues, all of which the military must attempt to figure out on the fly.\u00a0 It would appear most people agree that <em>something<\/em> needs to be done, but fulfilling that request without unnecessarily inhibiting religious liberty is another challenge altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Senate committee is recommending that Islamic extremism be added to the list of groups that military members are prohibited from participating in or associating with. The Defense Department&#8217;s existing policies for dealing with personnel that become involved in gangs and racist groups need to be expanded to cover new avenues of violence, [Sen. Joe] Lieberman [I-CT] and [Sen Susan] [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[4,19,44,2,45,10],"class_list":["post-3158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-churchandstate","tag-government","tag-islam","tag-military","tag-politics","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158","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=3158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}