{"id":1020,"date":"2009-01-17T22:08:12","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T02:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/?p=1020"},"modified":"2009-01-17T22:08:12","modified_gmt":"2009-01-18T02:08:12","slug":"first-obama-honors-gays-now-terrorists-at-inaugural","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/first-obama-honors-gays-now-terrorists-at-inaugural","title":{"rendered":"First Obama honors gays, now terrorists at Inaugural"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2009\/01\/17\/america\/Inauguration-Prayer.php\" target=\"_blank\">International Herald Tribune<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Muslim scholar chosen to speak at President-elect Barack Obama&#8217;s inaugural prayer service Wednesday is the leader of a group that federal prosecutors say has ties to terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America, is one of many religious leaders scheduled to speak at the prayer service at Washington&#8217;s National Cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>Mattson has been the guest of honor at State Department dinners and has met with senior Pentagon officials during the Bush administration. She also spoke at a prayer service at the Democratic National Convention in Denver.<\/p>\n<p>But in 2007 and as recently as last July, federal prosecutors in Dallas filed court documents linking the Hartford, Conn.-based Islamic society to the group Hamas, which the U.S. considers a terrorist organization.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the International Herald Tribune: A Muslim scholar chosen to speak at President-elect Barack Obama&#8217;s inaugural prayer service Wednesday is the leader of a group that federal prosecutors say has ties to terrorists. Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/first-obama-honors-gays-now-terrorists-at-inaugural\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[388,437,492],"class_list":["post-1020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hamas","tag-obama","tag-terrorists"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}