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"Personally I find the allegiance of Islamic military personnel in the U.S. Armed Services highly suspect.
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Interesting. Your personal misgivings, however, are irrelevant. Muslim military personnel serve in all branches of our military, with the same honor as followers of other religions.

I served, and I'm an atheist. I served honorably and well. My dad, also an atheist, flew B-17s during WWII on combat missions over Germany. I consider him a hero, as did our government in giving him several decorations.

Religion is not something you can equate with patriotism. One may be a patriot and be a follower of any religion. Isn't America great!?

Atheism -- the last I looked -- had no such commandment to "kill infidels," had it?? Just when will "serving" their religious commandment supercede their duty? Who knows?

And though my personal misgivings about Muslims serving may be "irrelevant," the opinions of troops who were blown to smithereens by the Islamist GI with the grenade are not.

There are enough other "incidents" that have gone un-reported as well...

All Americans owe you and especially your dad a great debt of gratitute for serving. I assume both he and you loved your country and abided by and appreciated it's principled virtues -- which are largely grounded in the Judeo-Christian bible.

"Religion is not something you can equate with patriotism. One may be a patriot and be a follower of any religion. Isn't America great!?"

Yeah -- America is "great." But becoming less so as it tumbles into an abyss of moral relativism and diluted common sense in the name "tolerance."

Btw, just where does an Atheist derive their moral compass of what's "right" and "wrong"?

Is it an inate quality or is learned from observation?