Screening Islamic Clergy

Insight ^ | Sept. 26, 2003 | J. Michael Waller

[Tailgunner Joe]

With a Muslim army chaplain imprisoned in a Navy brig as an alleged terrorist spy, the military must rethink how it recruits and screens Islamic clergy, according to a key Senate ally of the administration's counterterrorism policies.

"I'm gratified that military authorities have taken action to investigate what may be an alarming breach of security in our armed services, and I strongly recommend that the Pentagon review its policies in regard to the recruitment of clerics," says Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), chairman of a subcommittee on terrorism and homeland security.

Following news that the chaplain and an Islamic Air Force noncommissioned officer are locked up on military bases as suspected terrorist spies, Kyl announced that his subcommittee, which has held two groundbreaking hearings on Saudi-funded Wahhabi support activity in the United States, is to investigate Islamist subversion within the U.S. military and prisons.

"As was outlined in a previous subcommittee hearing, Saudi Arabia is at the 'epicenter' of terrorist funding," Kyl says. "We now need to conduct a thorough examination of groups such as the American Muslim Armed Forces and Veterans Council and the Graduate School for Islamic Social Studies, which provide Muslim clerics to the U.S. military and are also funded generously by the Saudi government."

Kyl told reporters that the suspected terrorist penetrations of the military "long preceded the current administration," an apparent reference to the Clinton administration, which established the current Saudi-backed chaplain-screening program that approved the alleged spy.

[onedoug]

Islam actually has a deep, ethical monotheistic tradition.

Islamism, however, or the actuation of jihad to impose sharia, or Islamic law, by force, is antithetical to Western civilization, and is going to have to be crushed.

[Arkady]

Just read a great article on muslim chaplains dominating N.Y. the prison-system. Harvesting a future-crop of converts, no doubt.
They've learned a lot from the mafia.
America is the land where it is better to let 10 guilty people free than to convict one innocent man.
They think we are stupid for being so benevolent.
But hey, it's better than stoning an innocent woman.