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 wonder what the fathers of our country would have to say about those ideas. Would they have accepted as rational the idea the govt ought build religious facilities for those who believed they were animals and ought be converted or killed or made to pay a tax to the religion which taught such monstrous doctrines? Would the Fathers of our country thought it rational the govt build mosques for those whose doctrines teaches there ought be no separation of church and state? Is that what I am to believe?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
*In Islam, there is no separation of church and state. If your goal is the imposition of Sharia Law in America and the establisment of Islam as the religion of America this is one way to advance down the road to that dhimmitude reality for Christians. Just don't expect this Christian to walk hand-in-hand with you on that road that ends in the loss of liberty and cultural and religious suicide
As has been said many times, The Constitution is not a suicide pact.
I don't see anything in the Consitution that denys Muslim citizens freedom of religion...nor a claus that allows you to define what their religion is.
This is idiotic!!
Could not disagree more.
That kind of caring most Jews could do without. But carry on. You've shown us a lot today.
No...your kind of caring NO ONE in the military needs...and yes, you folks have shown a lot today.
The Muslims were never denied the ability to practice their faith. Why, they have so much freedom to practice their faith in the military that they have a jihad supporting Muslim chaplain to lead them.
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Are you aware there is no separation of church and state in Islam?
If you truly cared for the troops, you would care about their mission. They are fighting (and dying) for the Peaches and CWOJacksons of the world.
I have read your posts with increasing disgust until I finally had to comment. As a vet, I can say definitively that you don't know the troops you supposedly advocate. You use them as a debate tool just as liberals use their victims... to insulate you from retort.
GREAT point on the 1st Amendment chief debunking why Islam is not at odds with it! How 'bout a big hand for CWOJackson folks and his astute observation here!!!
I'll really have to digest that b/c there's just so much substance in there that it'd be premature for me to actually react to it without a few hours of in depth thought.
BTW, I'll be going away for a bit. In the meantime, perhaps you, Allegra, and the one or two others that practice your guerilla message board tactics might actually want to exercise those synapses and take on my post #71.
I can see why you and Allegra don't, but nonetheless, my offer of a debate on that stands. In fact there chief, you almost started by admitting that in fact there were conflicts between the 1st Amendment and Islam. Now, just follow thru, ask yourself "why then you are taking the positon that you take," which I consider to be a "poison pill" for our nation, and then perhaps something intelligent may roll off of your keyboard.
I know, I know chief, I'm a "fat ass that isn't worthy of the mud on the bottome of a Marine's boot" or whatever it was you've been ranting over and over. I get that much, and I even acquiesce to you on that point if you'll simply follow through on post #71.
; )
OH, where are my manners!! Allegra, you can feel free to chiime in too in this way. ; )
And now they have a facility.
ROFL.
That's the best you've got?
And what have "we" folks shown? That we don't think it's a great idea for a mosque to be built for 24 Muslims to practice their faith, all while Jews are denied a place to practice their faith?
That we don't think it's a great idea to have a jihad supporting Muslim chaplain who wants a place for educating and converting military people to Islam?
That we don't think your lies and attempt at humor are particularly apprereciated?
Okey doke.
Are you aware that this is the United States of America?
It would appear that you have quite the support here on FR. LOL
Another "vet" who just doesn't care about "some" troops. Spare me your angst...I don't care how you feel.
When in Rome, do as the Romans do.
When in a different culture, try to blend the sharp lines. You cannot win the war for peace without doing some good PR work, and I see nothing wrong with what they have done.
Gaps are bridged in this way, and to think that we can pressure them into becoming moderates and changing the face of Islam in any other way will leave us with only one option, and that would be to somehow eliminate them all, along with all their history and cultural memory.
We have to do this PR work. We don't really have any other logical options. We cannot destroy cultural memory and we never will. But we can moderate it, in time.
What an excellent point. We see the leftists using sympathetic figures like Cindy Sheehan and I think the same thing is being done on this thread.
http://www.marines.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/0/A05AF06A776B67298525718800437A07?opendocument
not even that, really. Its a prayer room attached to the chapel. Big freaking deal. They apparently have 24 muslim marines there. I'd be happy for them to have a place to pray before they go put their lives on the line for the U.S.
You'd be surprised that "here" doesn't matter Dingbat...but you're welcome to tag along with me to Ft. Lewis at any time to work with the troops and their families.
Well spoken.
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