{"id":6840,"date":"2010-08-20T00:30:28","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T06:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6840"},"modified":"2010-08-15T22:47:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T04:47:19","slug":"taxpayer-money-promoting-islam-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/20\/taxpayer-money-promoting-islam-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Taxpayer money promoting Islam worldwide&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent controversy surrounding the proposed mosque in New York City, including the taxpayer funded trip of the mosque&#8217;s imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, has continued to highlight official government support for Islam around the world.\u00a0 A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bpnews.net\/bpnews.asp?id=33515\">recent article at the Baptist Press<\/a> notes the use of &#8220;taxpayer money&#8221; to advance the cause of Islam, even in Afghanistan and Iraq:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Americans also may be surprised to learn that the United States has been an active participant in mosque construction projects overseas,&#8221; The [Washington] Times said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The US military&#8217;s assistance in mosque rebuilding and refurbishment has been <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/23\/beyond-hearts-and-minds-us-military-and-islam-in-afghanistan\/\">discussed here before<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent controversy surrounding the proposed mosque in New York City, including the taxpayer funded trip of the mosque&#8217;s imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, has continued to highlight official government support for Islam around the world.\u00a0 A recent article at the Baptist Press notes the use of &#8220;taxpayer money&#8221; to advance the cause of Islam, even in Afghanistan and Iraq: &#8220;Americans [&#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":[58,4,902,903,52,44,2,804,904],"class_list":["post-6840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-afghanistan","tag-churchandstate","tag-feisal-abdul-rauf","tag-imam","tag-iraq","tag-islam","tag-military","tag-mosque","tag-new-york-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840","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=6840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}