{"id":6098,"date":"2010-06-23T00:40:11","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T06:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6098"},"modified":"2010-06-22T23:53:11","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T05:53:11","slug":"shahzad-admits-terrorism-calls-himself-muslim-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/23\/shahzad-admits-terrorism-calls-himself-muslim-soldier\/","title":{"rendered":"Shahzad Admits Terrorism, Calls Himself Muslim Soldier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faisal Shahzad, the man accused of leaving a failed car bomb in New York Times Square, admitted his role in the plot &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/2010\/0621\/Faisal-Shahzad-calls-Times-Square-bomb-plot-war-pleads-guilty\">and did so defiantly<\/a>.\u00a0 He said it was an act of vengeance for the actions of Americans:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Faisal] Shahzad told US District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum he was &#8220;a Muslim soldier&#8221; avenging the deaths of Muslims killed by Americans overseas, and that he didn&#8217;t care that his bomb could have killed children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interestingly, Shahzad did not say it was America&#8217;s Christianity, or the religiosity of its military, that brought about about his act of violence, as <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/12\/osama-bin-laden-confirms-weinsteins-claim\/\">some might have claimed<\/a>.\u00a0 It was <em>he<\/em> who viewed it as a religious conflict, even if his adversaries did not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faisal Shahzad, the man accused of leaving a failed car bomb in New York Times Square, admitted his role in the plot &#8212; and did so defiantly.\u00a0 He said it was an act of vengeance for the actions of Americans: [Faisal] Shahzad told US District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum he was &#8220;a Muslim soldier&#8221; avenging the deaths of Muslims killed [&#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":[668,2,669,10],"class_list":["post-6098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-faisal-shahzad","tag-military","tag-miriam-goldman-cedarbaum","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6098","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=6098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}