{"id":43024,"date":"2018-05-15T00:15:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T03:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=43024"},"modified":"2021-04-01T14:22:13","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T17:22:13","slug":"navy-covers-sailor-who-stays-true-to-his-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/15\/navy-covers-sailor-who-stays-true-to-his-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy Covers Sailor Who Stays True to His Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46142\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/senegalnavy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"880\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/senegalnavy.jpg 880w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/senegalnavy-300x95.jpg 300w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/senegalnavy-768x244.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 880px) 100vw, 880px\" \/>In an article entitled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/268901\/hope-god-understands-why\">I hope God understands why<\/a>,&#8221; the US Navy tells the story of US Navy Personnel Specialist 3rd Class Mamadou Mbengue, a native of Senegal &#8212; and a Muslim:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mbengue found himself in Recruit Training Command spending each morning and evening donning and doffing a uniform and learning to conform to a military lifestyle, while still upholding the values and principles of his faith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope God understands why,\u201d said Mbengue. \u201cI took every <!--more-->opportunity I had to pray and worship while I was in boot camp. There just wasn\u2019t a lot of time and privacy was always kind of an issue. I didn\u2019t have my prayer garment or prayer rug, but I knew there would be some sacrifices made with my decision to join.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article goes out of its way to describe Mbengue&#8217;s devotion to his faith and his ability to integrate the practice of his faith with his military service &#8212; as if to proactively rebut those who would claim a devout Muslim cannot be a good Sailor.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Like many other active service members who also live by the Muslim faith, he serves his country with admiration, dedication and pride.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Would that the military would make such an effort to show the virtues of <em>Christians<\/em> in the US military. The way society and some critics portray Christians, you&#8217;d think Christians were\u00a0all guilty of treason and all military Christians were just trying to take over the world.<\/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>In an article entitled &#8220;I hope God understands why,&#8221; the US Navy tells the story of US Navy Personnel Specialist 3rd Class Mamadou Mbengue, a native of Senegal &#8212; and a Muslim: Mbengue found himself in Recruit Training Command spending each morning and evening donning and doffing a uniform and learning to conform to a military lifestyle, while still upholding [&#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":[96,44,6583,2,36,11,10,171,6584],"class_list":["post-43024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-christian","tag-islam","tag-mamadou-mbengue","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-prayer","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-senegal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43024","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=43024"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46143,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43024\/revisions\/46143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}