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Army Makes History by Putting Muslim in Charge of 14,000 US Soldiers’ Spiritual Needs
McClatchy DC Bureau ^ | February 27, 2017 | Hannah Allam

Posted on 02/28/2017 11:19:33 AM PST by JeepersFreepers

In January, Lt. Col. Khallid Shabazz received the call every Army chaplain dreams of, the call that validates years of intense study and hard work toward keeping the U.S. military in good spiritual health.

He was offered the job of chaplain for an entire division, an honor for anyone in his field but a milestone in his case. After a ceremony this summer, Shabazz will become the first Muslim division-level chaplain in the history of the U.S. military – a Muslim spiritual leader for more than 14,000 mostly Christian soldiers.

He’d like to think his transition will be as smooth as those of his Christian peers, but he knows that not everyone will welcome him as warmly as the senior officers who gave him a standing ovation when the news was announced at a meeting on base.

Shabazz’s switch in faiths didn’t exactly go smoothly with the military, either. He had to write memos for even the smallest religious accommodation, such as time to perform the traditional Friday prayers. He’d fast during the holy month of Ramadan, though his schedule called for grueling work in the field. Ravenous by the end of the day, he’d come to the mess hall only to find pork chops. He’d raise concerns with his superiors from time to time, but made little ground.

Shabazz said. “I have a real opportunity to be an ambassador for the Army and for my religion.”

(Excerpt) Read more at mcclatchydc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: army; armychaplain; chaplain; khallidshabazz; militarychaplain; muslim; nidalhasan
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Too many of those in power either do not understand the threat that the doctrine and objectives of Islam pose or are Muslim or Muslim sympathizers (starting with Obama). And in our PC culture, vocal opposition to these type decisions are suppressed.

We all know how well former Major Nidal Hasan helped soldiers as an army psychiatrist.

Putting a Muslim in charge of other Christian chaplains and soldiers is so wrong that there are no words.

1 posted on 02/28/2017 11:19:33 AM PST by JeepersFreepers
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To: JeepersFreepers

Who the H E L L made this decision ?


2 posted on 02/28/2017 11:21:38 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
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>> Shabazz said. “I have a real opportunity to be an ambassador for the Army and for my religion.”

Really? A Christian would be court-martialed for making a that statement.


3 posted on 02/28/2017 11:23:05 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: JeepersFreepers

Travesty.

The future must not belong to those who deny the true nature of Islam.

John Quincy Adams on Islam

In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE.

Between these two religions, thus contrasted in their characters, a war of twelve hundred years has already raged. That war is yet flagrant; nor can it cease but by the extinction of that imposture, which has been permitted by Providence to prolong the degeneracy of man. While the merciless and dissolute dogmas of the false prophet shall furnish motives to human action, there can never be peace upon earth, and good will towards men. The hand of Ishmael will be against every man, and every man’s hand against him. It is, indeed, amongst the mysterious dealings of God, that this delusion should have been suffered for so many ages, and during so many generations of human kind, to prevail over the doctrines of the meek and peaceful and benevolent Jesus (Blunt, 1830, 29:269, capitals in orig.).


4 posted on 02/28/2017 11:23:56 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Can he be removed by mattis?


5 posted on 02/28/2017 11:25:21 AM PST by RoseofTexas
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To: JeepersFreepers

Ft Hood


6 posted on 02/28/2017 11:25:25 AM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: JeepersFreepers

With his name, he at least at one time, if not still, was probably a Nation of Islam fiend.


7 posted on 02/28/2017 11:25:27 AM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: JeepersFreepers

2 days ago I was working with a muzzie on set. We were waiting for him during post production editing and the dude was at the back praying most times. Time is money in my biz but it was getting annoying after awhile..


8 posted on 02/28/2017 11:26:04 AM PST by max americana (For the 9th time FIRED LIBERALS from our company at this election, and every election since 2008)
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To: JeepersFreepers

This development no doubt sickens bereaved family and survivors of Fort Hood Army Major Hassan jhihad murders.

Muslim supremacy over Christian kafirs, amazingly, willingly.
Dhimitude program and islamic caliphate plans going right according to schedule.


9 posted on 02/28/2017 11:26:08 AM PST by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: JeepersFreepers

Why not a Wiccan “priest”. Go openly Satanic and skip the Muslim mumbo-jumbo.


10 posted on 02/28/2017 11:26:20 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: JeepersFreepers

He is not in charge of anything except those troops specifically assigned to his command. The Division belongs to the General.


11 posted on 02/28/2017 11:26:29 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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senior officers who gave him a standing ovation when the news was announced

Begin by mustering out everyone of those sobs.

12 posted on 02/28/2017 11:29:13 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: sneakers

bttt


13 posted on 02/28/2017 11:32:57 AM PST by sneakers (It's DEMOCRAT - and not DemocratIC. There's nothing Democratic about the DEMOCRAT party)
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To: RoseofTexas

Can he be removed by mattis?


Sec. Mattis can order the Secretary of the Army to remove him, I assume. “For the good of the Service”.


14 posted on 02/28/2017 11:33:12 AM PST by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: JeepersFreepers

I do wonder if it is time to return to small, private church meetings & studies in homes. God doesn’t care where you gather. Or would that be playing into the hands of those who made these sort of decisions?


15 posted on 02/28/2017 11:36:39 AM PST by twyn1
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Nailed It !

16 posted on 02/28/2017 11:37:41 AM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: JeepersFreepers

Tired of Muslims “making history.”


17 posted on 02/28/2017 11:38:18 AM PST by proust (Trump / Pence 2016!)
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He’d fast during the holy month of Ramadan, though his schedule called for grueling work in the field. Ravenous by the end of the day, he’d come to the mess hall only to find pork chops.

Culture matters!! 1000 differences like this are the reasons people are necessarily different. The Left simultaneously attempts to destroy and minimize western culture, while promoting the idea that "culture" is just a completely unimportant and malleable concept.

18 posted on 02/28/2017 11:39:26 AM PST by PGR88
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To: JeepersFreepers

“Shabazz” sounds like Black Muslim to me, of which we’ve not been paying much attention.


19 posted on 02/28/2017 11:40:42 AM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: BenLurkin

Oy. Those guys. It took a week and a lot of searching for a -well...someone with gonads, who would just lock up the room with the consecrated Eucharists- to get them and their animal sacrifice reek out of the chapel building. You know, overseas, they have to have access to the common chapel building. People say why don’t they just want a separate building. It’s obvious why they want the same building

This guy? What to make of this? A last ditch appointment before obama is as they say in the ilitary a dot in the rear view mirror. Obama placed a lot of people into high places, i should think. They’re still there. Heck 9/11 was in September. Most people know in their hearts that was a Clinton thing.


20 posted on 02/28/2017 11:41:40 AM PST by stanne
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