Posted on 11/10/2009 2:52:06 AM PST by lbryce
Complications Grow for Muslims Serving in U.S. Military By ANDREA ELLIOTT
Abdi Akgun joined the Marines in August of 2000, fresh out of high school and eager to serve his country. As a Muslim, the attacks of Sept. 11 only steeled his resolve to fight terrorism.
But two years later, when Mr. Akgun was deployed to Iraq with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, the thought of confronting Muslims
He was haunted by the possibility that he might end up killing innocent civilians.
“It’s kind of like the Civil War, where brothers fought each other across the Mason-Dixon line,” Mr. Akgun, 28, of Lindenhurst, N.Y., who returned from Iraq without ever pulling the trigger. “I don’t want to stain my faith, I don’t want to stain my fellow Muslims, and I also don’t want to stain my country’s flag.”
Thousands of Muslims have served in the United States military — a legacy that some trace to the First World War. But in the years since Sept. 11, 2001, as the United States has become mired in two wars on Muslim lands, the service of Muslim-Americans is more necessary and more complicated than ever before.
In the aftermath of the shootings at Fort Hood on Thursday by Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan of the Army, a psychiatrist, many Muslim soldiers and their commanders say they fear that the relationship between the military and its Muslim service members will only grow more difficult
On Sunday, the Army’s chief of staff, Gen. George W. Casey Jr., said he worried about a backlash against Muslims in the armed forces and emphasized the military’s reliance on those men and women.
“Our diversity, not only in our Army but in our country, is a strength,” General Casey said Sunday on “Meet the Press” on NBC.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
“I don’t understand why the Muslim-American community has to take responsibility for him,” said Ingrid Mattson, the president of the Islamic Society of North America. “The Army has had at least as much time and opportunity to form and shape this person as the Muslim community.
The attitude expressed by these Islamic apologists would be incredibly funny if it weren't so tragic. It's exactly this sort of convoluted, politically correct liberal mindset we have to fear, portect against.
For starters, ban Islamists from our Armed Forces. Not gonna happen, but it should.
It is a question that should be put to any Muslim in the Military. Is your first loyalty to America or Islam? There is only one right answer.
IT'S A STUPID STATEMENT. STUPID. STUPID. STUPID.
We need to stop thinking of Islam as a religion. It is not. It is a totalitarian system,all encompassing, like communism. At its core is an instruction manual on how to attack, subjugate, infiltrate, and destroy other systems. It is a murderous death cult without a single redeeming human characteristic. Islam is a cancer on humanity. Mohammed was a psychotic child molester, in many ways a lot like Obama.
Where was all this handwringing on the left when christian President Bill Clinton was bombing the crap out of christian Serbia including bombing them on Easter Sunday with christian troops? No one had pause then, but now we have to give pause and understanding to Muslims who don't want to fight Muslims.
We have an administration that is emboldening
the terrorists.
This sort of thing ( attempted terrorist
attack on us soil) is becoming a weekly event now that the
current administration is dismantling a national security
system that kept us safe for 8 years. After a knife through
the heart of the intelligence community we are going to blame the Americans and the Army?
Elections have consequences and this is one of them.
Expect more in the future. I will be putting the blame
at the feet of the real instigator, the current
administration. The one that think the real terrorists
are pro-lifers, returning soldiers, vets, Christians,
tea party attendees, those with criticisms of the current
administration.
And yet these same muzzies will kill fellow muzzies over who was the proper heir to the moon cult leader. Interesting how they rationalize that.
“We need to stop thinking of Islam as a religion. It is not. It is a totalitarian system,all encompassing, like communism. At its core is an instruction manual on how to attack, subjugate, infiltrate, and destroy other systems. It is a murderous death cult without a single redeeming human characteristic. Islam is a cancer on humanity. Mohammed was a psychotic child molester....”
That’s a fact.
I hope each and every moosie in the U.S. is sleeping a little less well tonight.
Perhaps if they policed their crazies, stopped funding wahabbism, and stood up for what is right they would gain a little support.
But they refuse to take a strong stand against this crap so hopefully they will suffer NOW.
And at this point were I on a grand jury hearing a case where a Christian took out a whole bunch of moosies I do not think I’d indict.
Diversity = Perversity....a smarter man than me came up with that line.....Michael Savage.
It seems that "shaping" included "research" for a "thesis" that required extensive email correspondence with a radical Muslim cleric and former Imam of the mosque he worshipped at in DC, internet postings praising suicide bombers, and attempts to contact al Qaeda terrorists.
Not a problem, says the FBI -- it was research.
Not a whole lot of "shaping" by the Army going on, it seems.
My gosh Jacquerie,
That is so politically incorrect.
Couldn’t agree more with ya.
Excellent points.
Actually, we tried to keep troops of Japanese descent from fighting against the troops of Japan, and those born of German stock from fighting against Germany........wait a minute, you tell me that Japanese Americans were some of the baddest in the fight against Imperial Japan....never mind.
True, he might end up killing some innocent civilians in the process of killing those who kill innocent civilians as a matter of course. The innocent civilians that die in an American attack on a terrorist stronghold are but a small fraction of those who will die if the stronghold and its terrorists aren't taken out.
Ingrid needs to ask why her “good” Muslim community doesn’t jerk their Muslim perverts up by the neck and shake some sense into them.
At the same time, these “good” Muslim Imams should go out and do the same with their jihadist Imams.
Surely their Allah considers it a sin to watch evil be done and sit idly by.
>”Ingrid needs to ask why her “good” Muslim community doesn’t jerk their Muslim perverts up by the neck and shake some sense into them.
At the same time, these “good” Muslim Imams should go out and do the same with their jihadist Imams.
Surely their Allah considers it a sin to watch evil be done and sit idly by.”
EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Common Law dictates that those who sit idely by, SHARE A PART OF THE BLAME!!!!!!!!!!
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