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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Victory means no more Islam, ANYwhere. That means no one on earth believes in Allah any more. No more Quran. - relegated to a forgotten book on the ash heap of history.
The desired end state(s): the population(s) converted to Christianity, or even Hinduism or Bhuddism. ANYthing other than Islam. Back to paganism would be an improvement.
Anything less than that, and The West remains in danger.
It's that simple.
- John
J.T.: How 'bout if I just kick your ass?
Vinny Gambini: Oh, a counter-offer. That's what we lawyers - I'm a lawyer - we lawyers call that a counter-offer. This is a tough decision here. Get my ass kicked or collect $200. Let me think... I could use a good ass-kickin', I'll be very honest with you... nah, I think I'll just go with the two hundred.
J.T.: Over my dead body.
Vinny Gambini: You like to renegotiate as you go along, don't you? Well here's my counter-offer... do I have to kill you? What if I were just to kick the ever loving shit out of you?
J.T.: In your dreams.
Vinny Gambini: Oh no no... in reality. If I was to kick the shit out of you, do I get the money?
JERK OFFS, Without souls, running amuck,this must be the anti-christ, busy with the daze and confusion part.
Down with Islamic Terror.
GOD BLESS THE USA!
The Academy has a beautiful chapel, and there are a few Synagogues at large installations. The Naval Academy has one. I wouldn't be concerned about the Mosque, though a headcount of 24 is rather small, rather the fact that it's wahabbi based. It will be interesting to see if prostylization, a no no for Christians, is overlooked. I'd listen to the Navy Chaplain.
"I have great concern about this young Muslim chaplain," said Lt. Comm. Gary P. Stewart, also a Navy chaplain. "I don't trust him."
I think I recall some controversy surrounting Lt. Saifulislam in the past. If it’s more than simply his relationship with the Marine deserter, I’ll post it.
Very meaningless...like you Dingbat.
I do not like this. How dare they do this?
My bad. I thought this was about stacking the bodies of dead terrorists so they could be taken to a cemetary.
I've read about the Muslim chaplain too, and none of it was good. In fact, it was so bad I wondered if he was being monitored as a way to find out who he was working with.
Are you aware that in Islam there is no deparation of church and state?
If you are aware of that fact, do you think any danger exists in the tendency to downplay or dismiss the inherit incoherence (at best) in a gov't which enshrined a separation of church and state building a mosque for those who reject the idea of a separation of church and state?
No thanks there Chief!
Yet another outstanding retort to my challenges however.
Is this all that you do on these boards, is to hurl personal insults and rant and rave using only your personal opinions without any substantiation otherwise as the basis for all of your arguments?
Let's see, you work with the troops, which if I and the rest of us here implied correctly, makes you some sort of person that automatically rushes to the head of the line for credibility, so we're supposed to bow to your opinions in spite of the sheer and utter devoid of any substantiation for them amidst your attempts to suggest that the 1st Amendment applies to muslims that very well might be anti-1st-Amendment, yet not to me and others here. Meanwhile you admit a conflict between the 1st Amendment (ergo, the Bill of Rights and the entire premise for the US Constitution), but you won't elaborate on those only hurling further insults at those "that dare" challenge your apparently god-like opinions!
No thanks chief, I'd just as soon stick my hand into a running garbage disposal than "ride along with you."
Meanwhile, Allegra's implications are that "because she's lived in the Middle East," everything that there is to know about Islam, it's tenets, writings, Mohammed, etc., as well as past, present, and future, she's an expert on.
We all get it! Truly, we do.
Which has nothing to do with religious freedom in America and for our troops.
Dingbat
That was yet another great counterargument. I forgot to give you props for that one. I was afraid that you'd defer to the more childish and oft overused "liar, liar, pants on fire" retort instead.
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.
But...but don't you realise that all Muslims want to kill us, and the only thing the Koran says is kill the infidels?
/sarcasm
Which has nothing to do with religious freedom in America and for our troops.
Is there blood flowing through your head Chief?
Yes, is that pure alcohol flowing through yours?
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