{"id":76346,"date":"2017-12-06T08:24:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T13:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76346"},"modified":"2017-12-06T08:24:15","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T13:24:15","slug":"sharior-rahman-air-force-chaplain-shoplifter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76346","title":{"rendered":"Sharior Rahman, Air Force chaplain shoplifter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=76347\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-76347\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Sharior-Rahman-251x333.jpg?resize=251%2C333\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-76347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Sharior-Rahman.jpg?resize=251%2C333&amp;ssl=1 251w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Sharior-Rahman.jpg?resize=226%2C300&amp;ssl=1 226w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Sharior-Rahman.jpg?w=257&amp;ssl=1 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/ramstein-chaplain-found-guilty-of-stealing-from-german-grocery-store-1.500895\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a> reports that Air Force Captain (Chaplain) Sharior Rahman, an imam at Ramstein Air Base and one of only a few Muslim clerics in the Air Force, was convicted of stealing from a German store and sentenced to forfeit $3,000 of his pay for one month but did not dismiss him from the service.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Whether Rahman will remain in the chaplaincy with a general court-martial conviction still needs to be determined by the organization that endorsed him as a military chaplain, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The charges stem from a shopping trip last year at an Edeka store in Homburg, where Rahman and his wife, Sanam, a civilian, shoplifted about 70 euros worth of groceries, according to court testimony. A second shoplifting involving the couple occurred two weeks later at the Exchange on Ramstein, though no criminal charges were filed in the latter incident.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the article, he and his wife had a well-rehearsed plan to buy some items and smuggle other stolen items out of the stores. If he had tried that in Saudi Arabia, he&#8217;s be missing one of his sticky mitts now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stars &#038; Stripes reports that Air Force Captain (Chaplain) Sharior Rahman, an imam at Ramstein Air Base and one of only a few Muslim clerics in the Air Force, was convicted of stealing from a German store and sentenced to forfeit $3,000 of his pay for one month but did not dismiss him from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Sharior-Rahman.jpg?fit=257%2C341&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-jRo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}