Bethelgrad, After reading your "about" information and your post, I will defer my opinion on this issue until someone can establish that this man will be harmful to our country.
Thank you for your service Marine and have a Merry Christmas.
You might want to reconsider the "nothing to worry about".
The man is a practicing member of the most virulent form of Islam. The ones who are busy building mosques around the world where hatred of all non muslims can be preached.
Can you say "fifth column" at one of our oldest and most prestigious military organizations? How much information could that "Chaplain" pass on to our enemies? We are stupid beyond belief...that's like inviting the mugger in for a snack!
"Osama Bin Laden, named by US officials as the main suspect in the 11 September attacks against America, is Saudi-born and a Wahhabi.
Many people are accordingly asking about the character of "Wahhabism" and debating whether it is an inherently radical form of Islam.
In fact, the term is properly used to describe an Islamic revivalist movement which sprang up in the Arabian peninsula in the 18th century.
Like many revivalists in the course of Muslim history, Muhammad Ibn Abdul-Wahhab, the founder of the movement, felt that the local practice of Islam had lost its original purity.
The modern Saudi state is founded on the 18th-century alliance between the Wahhabi religious movement and the House of Saud - the family that has ruled the Saudi kingdom since its creation in the 1930s.
In daily life, the Saudi religious establishment - the ulema - have imposed strict segregation of the sexes, an absolute prohibition of the sale and consumption of alcohol, a ban on women driving and many other social restrictions.
The rules are enforced by the "mutawa", or religious police, who patrol the streets and shopping centres on the look-out for anyone breaking the rules.