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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I've done better. I attended the Jewish funeral of a friend on base.
I will not continue any discourse with you. Rational debate can be enjoyable; bickering with people who are too rude to know any better is not. I simply do not associate with people with your obvious lack of manners. You do not appear to have any self-respect; otherwise you would not act the way you do.
There are too many interesting people in the world for me to be wasting time with the likes of you.
But was it in a temple? I never knew you were a freeper who had so little regard for the facts, CWO.
Your outrageous suggestion that Muslims and Jews pray together in a mosque and your sarcastic comment that I didn't care that Muslims had to pray outside, which they did NOT have to do, does not stand you in good stead.
I'd like to bid on the hidden bugging devices contract.
Oh, and I've got facts derived from reality, not based on opinionated ignorance.
I see. So your personal experiences, what, inside Mosgues during times when hatred is spewed no doubt, (RIGHT?!), and your otherwise limited (regardless of precisely how limited) experience with "living in the Middle East" (Where BTW, noticing that you didn't specify) now defines Islam since its inception nearly a millenium and a half ago. I see! Pardon me. LOL
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.
Objection your honor, purely speculative. (and entirely incorrect BTW, a technicality I realize)
(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.)
Oh boy, finally a response about my post #71! Goodie! LMAO Certainly not pure opinion and quite a bit for someone to predicate an argument one. LOL
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.
Well, well, seems like someone's getting a little rattled. What, by manners you mean "not asking the tough questions that actually require you to justify and validate your opinions?" Yes, in that way I fully realize that my .... "manners," .... are very crass. LOL
And I'm not a "son." I'm female.
Well then, that would at least explain a little something here. Does "being female" disallow you from addressing my post #71?
If it doesn't, I'm sure that something else does. ; )
Don't tangle with your intellectual superiors. You'll always come off looking like an a$$.
OOH!! Now there's a good one. So you're my intellectual superior b/c you say so. I see. Great, got it. Logged. Yet another great argument and addressing of the issues in post #71!
Thank you Allegra for being the first defending your indefensible position! /sarcasm BTW, that "sarcasm" tag was for you as I'm sure the others would pick up on it. I thought that it might be helpful to you in your self-aggrandized intellectual capacity. ; )
Anyway, GREAT points on the 1st Amendment as contrasted with the tenets and underpinnings of Islam, of which I'm sure you were aware based on your extensive time spent in the Middle East, eh. I'm sure that your insights will be appreciated by all.
Oh, ... pardon me. there should have been another "/sarcasm" after that last statement, for your benefit of course. LOL
ROFL! You crack me up. I get almost as good a laugh from your posts as I do from authentic liberals. Carry on.
Facts?
How many military funerals have you attended?
How many years of service and personal sacrifice have you put in?
How many years have you spent in your retirement volunteering to assist military families of those deploying and returning from combat?
You want facts, try living them instead of playing your silly internet games.
Good, because I find no humor with people who treat our troops like crap.
LOL. I've learned a lot on this thread today, that's for sure. BTW, good to see you arasina.
What, you get caught lying and making stuff up and now you're going to pull the "if you didn't serve in the military then you have no right to post on these threads" game? ROFL
I don't think you could buy a clue this morning.
A shame that good men and women sacrifice so much for a nation where even "you" get to enjoy so much they give up.
Two separate paragraphs in one post? BRILLIANT!
Yes, brilliant indeed there chief! Yet more arguments that are so germane to the topic at hand.
I'm sorry that I don't amuse you, although I must say, if I were in your shoes, I wouldn't exactly be amused by myself either. Surely however you are amusing yourself, no?
I'm sure that many here are fully enjoying our "intellectual" exchange of ideas.
Michael Reagan LOOKOUT! CWOJackson's coming after your job! LMAO
"Fat ass?" I've never been told that by people that have seen me. But you know, it certainly is yet another great counterpoint by you on the conflicts between the 1st Amendment and the tenets of Islam as cited in post #71.
Thank you for finally shedding some light on the issue.
BTW, is Allegra your wife?
You wouldn't know what a clue was...
As I said before dingbat, you're not worthy of the dirt from a Muslim Marine's boots.
"We're fighting a war against all of Islam?"
If we're not we should be. Islam IS the enemy, will always BE the enemy and has always BEEN the enemy of the free world.
Uh, I got my first clue about you when you got caught in a lie and didn't have the guts to admit it.
And then I got my second clue when you posted the outrageous suggestion that military Jews and Muslims could pray in the new mosque. So much for caring about ALL the troops. As that statement of yours suggested, certainly you don't care a whit about Jewish military men and women or you wouldn't have posted such an inflammatory and disgusting statement.
I don't care a wit about people like you...the troops I care for very much.
Oh, yes. We can see how much you care about the troops. Just not the Jewish troops.
I never used the word "expert." You're showing your ass again. You musn't put words in peoples' mouths like that. That's what we have CNN for.
You stated as well as implied that I knew nothing about Islam "because you had (and I quote) 'lived in the ME'," and then used that as a basis for the implication that you knew all that there was to know about Islam on matters as they would pertain to this issue. That to me, and to most people, would be considered an "expert" for one or more reasons.
I will not continue any discourse with you.
Oh, I can certainly see why. I've been pretty rational frankly. You're the one that's been hurling malicious denunciations of me personally.
Rational debate can be enjoyable; bickering with people who are too rude to know any better is not. I simply do not associate with people with your obvious lack of manners. You do not appear to have any self-respect; otherwise you would not act the way you do.
Your posts, and read them back if you will, including this one, have been nothing more than opinions of me with barely anything to engage ourselves in rationally as you say you enjoy. So can the pitch and at least take a peek in the mirror toots. Your very first post to me was pure opinion driven as well as supportive of my first point in this thread, and laid out absolutely nothing for us to "engage in rational debate."
If you'd have addressed the points in my post #71, then perhaps there would have been. But I'll tell ya what, if you really think that you're the polemical expert that apparently you think you are, then go back to that post, and address it. We can then engage in "rational debate" there. Otherwise, the sum total of your posts with perhaps one exception, has been nothting short of an entirely opinionated rant for which no one can counter your arguments "because you lived in the ME." Boy howdy.
And that's "rational?" Sure it is...
There are too many interesting people in the world for me to be wasting time with the likes of you.
Naturally. Usually the response when losing an argument for lack of fielding a team. Very well then, we'll call it a draw!
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