{"id":218038,"date":"2010-01-22T07:14:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T12:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/?p=11369"},"modified":"2010-01-22T07:14:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T12:14:28","slug":"poll-do-bible-citations-belong-on-military-gunscopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218038","title":{"rendered":"POLL: Do Bible citations belong on military gunscopes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11383\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 178px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11383\" title=\"petraeus\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.reuters.com\/faithworld\/files\/2010\/01\/petraeus-168x200-custom.jpg\" alt=\"petraeus\" width=\"168\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gen. Petraeus in Baghdad, 1 Jan 2010\/Saad Shalash<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>U.S. General David Petraeus has criticised a company that embossed Bible citations on rifle scopes sent to forces fighting in Muslim countries. <em>&#8220;This is of serious concern to me and to the other commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan because, indeed, it conveys a perception that is absolutely contrary to what it is that we have sought to do,&#8221;<\/em> Petraeus said. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE60L0SO20100122\">Read our news story<\/a> and tell us what you think in the following poll.<\/p>\n<div class=\"TWIIGSPOLL\"><script src=\"http:\/\/www.twiigs.com\/poll.js?pid=47728&amp;color=\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"TWIIGSPOLLpolllink\" style=\"clear: none; display: block; float: none; background-image: none; visibility: visible; margin: 10px 0pt 0pt; word-spacing: normal; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: hidden; text-transform: none; width: auto; clip: rect(auto auto auto auto); text-indent: 0pt; line-height: normal; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; position: static; height: auto; background-color: transparent; text-align: right; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: none; outline-style: none; border-style: none; padding: 0pt;\"><a class=\"TWIIGSPOLLmorelink\" style=\"clear: none; display: inline; font-weight: bold; float: none; background-image: none; visibility: visible; margin: 0pt; word-spacing: normal; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: hidden; text-transform: none; width: auto; clip: rect(auto auto auto auto); text-indent: 0pt; line-height: normal; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; position: static; height: auto; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-shadow: none; outline-style: none; border-style: none; padding: 0pt;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twiigs.com\/\">poll by twiigs.com<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"TWIIGSPOLLpolllink\" style=\"clear: none; display: block; float: none; background-image: none; visibility: visible; margin: 10px 0pt 0pt; word-spacing: normal; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: hidden; text-transform: none; width: auto; clip: rect(auto auto auto auto); text-indent: 0pt; line-height: normal; white-space: normal; letter-spacing: normal; position: static; height: auto; background-color: transparent; text-align: center; text-decoration: none; text-shadow: none; outline-style: none; border-style: none; padding: 0pt;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/RTRFaithWorld\">Follow FaithWorld on Twitter at RTRFaithWorld<\/a><\/strong><strong> <\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gen. Petraeus in Baghdad, 1 Jan 2010\/Saad Shalash U.S. General David Petraeus has criticised a company that embossed Bible citations on rifle scopes sent to forces fighting in Muslim countries. &#8220;This is of serious concern to me and to the other commanders in Iraq and Afghanistan because, indeed, it conveys a perception that is absolutely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4078,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4078"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}