Posted on 06/13/2006 4:51:14 AM PDT by Buffettfan
US Marines Build Shrine To Islam
By Paul Sperry
FrontPageMagazine.com
June 13, 2006 http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22845
We are at war with militant Islam, but you wouldn't know it from the Pentagon, which is busy erecting a shrine to Islam just five short years after Islamic terrorists destroyed a good chunk of its own building and killed more than 100 of its occupants. Worse, it's consulting on the project with a Wahhabi-educated cleric posing as a moderate.
Last week, military brass -- along with representatives from the terror-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations -- dedicated the first Muslim prayer center for the Marines as a symbol of the military's "religious tolerance" and "respect" for the faith the enemy uses to attack us. Already, plans are in the works to build by 2009 a bigger mosque at the Marine base in Quantico so Muslim service members can have a "proper place" to worship, and one that "honors their religious heritage," officials say, not realizing that the mosque can also be used by the enemy to build a Fifth Column inside the Marines.
The idea for the center came from Navy Lt. Abuhena Mohammed Saifulislam, a young, smooth-talking Muslim chaplain, who wanted a permanent place of worship -- and "education" -- for the growing number of soldiers who are interested in -- and converting to -- Islam.
Quantico has only 24 Muslims on base, so the mosque -- the first of its kind in the 230-year history of the Corps -- will also serve to introduce and draw other Marines to the faith. Large posters explaining how "Muslims love and respect Jesus" (but only as a minor prophet and not the son of God, which they view as blasphemous to Allah) line the inside of the white building. This is one way imam Saifulislam -- known on base simply as "Saif" -- bridges the faiths to reach out to Christian soldiers. Blacks are particularly susceptible to his pitch.
Apparently, whatever Saifulislam wants, he gets -- even at the terrorist prison camp at Gitmo, where he was first assigned after 9-11. There, he recommended that al-Qaida detainees be served halal meals -- including traditional dates and lamb -- prepared according to Islamic dietary law. The Gitmo menu now boasts 113 Muslim-appropriate meals for the benefit of finicky terrorist tummies.
That's not all. Thanks to Saifulislam's advice, our enemy now wakes to the sound of Muslim chaplains calling them to prayer instead of barking dogs or guards, who are now trained in Muslim sensitivity. Also thanks to Saifulislam, detainees can brush up on jihad by reading paperback Pentagon-issued copies of the Quran. They can even finger prayer beads and wear makeshift turbans and skull caps.
While at Gitmo, the Navy imam privately counseled al-Qaida prisoners in their native tongues of Urdu and Arabic. "I must give hope for them to cope," Saifulislam said. How thoughtful of him.
It turns out Saifulislam also ministered to Marine Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, a fellow Muslim charged with desertion, just before he went AWOL again last year. Hassoun deserted his post in Iraq where he served as an Arabic translator. After he was captured, and after he met with the Quantico imam, he deserted again.
Saifulislam is clean-cut with a Colgate smile. The Pentagon gives him great latitude because he claims to be moderate.
However, Saifulislam studied Islam at a hardline Wahhabi school in Virginia that was raided by federal authorities after 9-11. And one of his mentors is Taha Jaber Al-Alwani, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Sami al-Arian terror case. Federal court records allege he gave at least $50,000 in jihad money "to support suicide bombings" in Israel.
Saifulislam, born in Bangladesh, insists he is only a Sunni Muslim and does not adhere to the faith's more orthodox and militant Wahhabi sect practiced by Osama bin Laden and his ilk. Still, his pro-jihad academic background should raise flags at the Pentagon.
Instead, it's giving him a permanent taxpayer-supported platform from which to convert grunts to Islam. With the Quantico mosque, the Pentagon is facilitating the study of the holy texts the enemy uses, heretically or not, as their manual of war. This is tantamount to the Marines setting up a Mein Kampf reading room during WWII.
The timing of the dedication ceremony is ironic by half. As the deputy secretary of defense and Marine commandant respectfully removed their shoes to enter the mosque and intoned pleasant PC platitudes about being one big happy "family" with Muslims, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced the arrest of 17 Muslim men who had allegedly plotted to explode fertilizer-based bombs at important sites in Canada. Their plans also called for attacking parliament and even beheading the prime minister. Almost half of them had attended the same mosque in Toronto.
Several military officers chose to sit out the Quantico ceremony than hear deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England mouth "salaams" to the Muslims in attendance. They think the mosque is misplaced, and don't trust its imam.
"I have great concern about this young Muslim chaplain," said Lt. Comm. Gary P. Stewart, also a Navy chaplain. "I don't trust him."
The Pentagon's over-the-top gesture is only the latest sign that political correctness is running amok inside the military. Chief chaplains for the Navy, Army and Air Force routinely meet with top leaders from the Islamic Society of North America for PC powwows, even though ISNA is a Saudi-backed group with ties to terrorists. No matter, the Pentagon distributes ISNA literature on Islam and Muslims to help increase troops' "sensitivity" toward Islam.
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"A former Marine...who has no respect whatsoever for Marines today. How strange."
You MUST be army! How dare you!
You also don't read very well.
It's one thing to give Muslims a dedicated space (which they now have) - it's another to build a mosque. Especially when most of those Muslims are foreign officers.
Feel free to come visit and find out for yourself!!
Several military officers chose to sit out the Quantico ceremony than hear deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England mouth "salaams" to the Muslims in attendance. They think the mosque is misplaced, and don't trust its imam.
This is a mockery (mosquery) of our military. They are being commanded to go out and kill the enemy and at the same time kiss their @ss. So very Clintonesque.
BRAVISSIMO!!!
Another FINE response there Mr. FR Pitbull! Nice.
It's one of the first with more than a single thought connected. Of course there's the mandatory insult in there based on purely your opinions, which I'm quite glad to see that you didn't abandon.
But ya know, there's just so much there to chew on and think about, that you'll surely pardon me while I don't post for a while until such a time as I have had sufficient time to simply digest it all.
LOL...
I must say, I've followed your nonsense for a while now, but today has reached a new height, and I'm very happy to be the one to expose your .... shallow reasoning.
BTW there chief, we ever gonna get your reconciliation of your agreement that there are conflicts between our 1st Amendment and what the Koran, you know, that core book for Muslims, the one that can't be touched by other than muslims for fear of world-wide riots, says as outlined in post #71????
Hmmm!
Now I know we're not, but it's fun to ask because your responses are nostalgic. ; )
It's very easy when it's so true. There are thousands of Muslims serving in the United States Military, including the Marine Corps. I do care about them, a pity you don't.
Maybe they can share this facility.
*Wow. That was particularly nasty. If your idea of freedom of religion results in you thinking those who disagree with you are of less value than dirt on a Muslim's Marines boot, then you may be much closer to the essence of Islam than you realise.
Islam teaches that all Christians, including native born American Christians (I am assuming the description fits fruitbat) are the sons of monkeys and pigs.
BTW, that first ammendment thingy, does it extend to fruitbat's liberty to disagree with you wihtout being thought of as less value than dirt?
Oh, and I've got facts derived from reality, not based on opinionated ignorance.
I also strongly suspect that you wouldn't know the first thing about "charging into battle." You're there behind your keyborad thinking you're being all tough when all you're really doing is showing that you know how to be rude.
(What is it about so many FReepers who joined in '04? That "class" seems to have generated the most ill-bred people of any other sign-up year.)
It appears that you're the one who should learn some facts before you go shooting off your mouth. And learning some manners would benefit you greatly, as well.
And I'm not a "son." I'm female.
Don't tangle with your intellectual superiors. You'll always come off looking like an a$$.
How manyy angels can dance on the head of a pin?
Chew on that one at your junior high school debating society.
You can try to reconcile the Constitution all you want, it places no restrictions whatsover on religous freedom. As I said, you're not worthy of the dirt off a Muslim Marine's boots.
I wouldn't deny dingbats religious freedoms at all...
I am outraged at this, it makes me sick to my stomach!
Islam is a feaking cult and we as a country better get that or it will be too late for this entire USA to survive.
This Navy Lt. Abuhena Mohammed Saifulislam and all the information we know about him should be enough to wake up a few of the PC freaks but it seems it does not matter.
Islam is a death cult!
Yeah, says me. I've worked and lived in the Middle East for two and a half years and I'm still here. I believe that lends me a little credibiity.
What are your sources? CNN?
P.S. An entire region or religion does not Saudi Arabia make.
And "you get this?" What, questions? Yes, you get questions. If those are too tough, or offensive, then you're simply in the wrong place.
So, you've lived in the Middle East so that makes you an expert on Islamic ideology.
OK, I'll bite!!!
Go to post #71 then and please reconcile for me, not ala CWOJackson, the First Amendment, you know, the founding tenet of our entire nation as outlined in the Bill of Rights and Constitution, and the references that I cited from the Koran. And since you've lived in the ME, you'll understand the importance of the Koran to muslims. In fact, it's so important to them that the paper of one Koran is worth more than the life of a non-muslim.
So you want an intelligent debate, start with #71 and let me know:
A. Do you see any conflicts between the 1st Amendment vice that which is contained in the Koran as cited.
and B. What might that mean over the long haul to our nation?
Let's see if you can "not follow in CWOJackson's footprints of admitting that there's a conflict, but then running away like a 5-year old girl from the ensuing debate.
Offended? Then leave. They're simple challenges there Allegra! Nothing more.
#1. I've asked you repeatedly to back up your statement that I don't care that Muslims had to pray outside before the Mosque was built.
How do you know they had to pray outside?
#2. When I gave a link to a web site that reports how difficult it's been for non-Christians and Jews specifically to be given space and literature in which to pray, you sarcastically said maybe the Muslims and Jews can pray TOGETHER in the new Mosque.
So you can't back up your statements in #1 and then make disgusting comments in #2.
Because I am sick to death of people who sit on the fat ass in their comfortable computer chairs dictating how the men and women of the U.S. military are treated or what religion they worship. Bottom line, the DoD saw fit to provide this facility for some Marines and I totally support that.
Does it make any difference to you that you support building a mosque for the adherents of a religion which teaches you are the son of monkeys and pigs and that you must be converted or killed or accept dhimmitude and pay the jizyah?
None of which answers why you can't answer a simple question that's been posted to you.
How do you know that Muslims had to pray outside before this mosque was built? You regularly go around making sarcastic statements that have no basis in fact?
And how lovely that because you're annoyed with some freepers that you think Jews and Muslims should pray together in a mosque.
Oh BS...I support providing for the religious freedoms of our troops.
I don't, which is a mute point now that they have their facility.
I can see you aren't so concerned about religion freedom for ALL the troops though. Certainly not the Jews, or didn't you bother to read that link I posted?
That might be fairly typical of someone who sarcastically said something they can't back up.
So you don't know that Muslims had to pray outside before the mosque was built.
So when I said that Muslims had dedicated space in which to pray BEFORE the mosque was built and you sarcastically said it was nice of me to let them pray OUTSIDE, you were just making stuff up.
Good to know.
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