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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Just as Islam does,....... RIGHT?!?!
Right there Chief????
Is that it?
BARF!
Are you living in an Islamic country? This is the United States of America, where under the Constitution, we have religious freedom...even our troops.
This is a gas.
Yes, is that pure alcohol flowing through yours?
I tell ya, you're a genius. Why are you wasting your talents here when you could be on CBS, NBC, or ABC being the next wooden head over there?
Gosh, again and as usual, just so much for us to hang our hats on here.
"pure alcohol flowing through mine...."
That's a tough one to refute regarding the 1st Amendment.
Help here folks! I think Chief just won the argument.
Anyone, .... Bueller?
I'm just stumped....
I seem to recall some concerns about him a few years ago, but I may be confusing him with James Yee (converted to Islam at West Point), who was charged with espionage. If I find something I'll post it.
Good.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1646979/posts#27
"Tell that to Cpl. Mohammed N. Rahman, or Lance Cpl. Sajjad H. Rizvi."
Or Sgt Omar Najieb, a damn good Marine that I trust with my life and the lives of the rest of my Marines. Some of you clowns need to step back and think before you run your mouths about good people you know nothing about!!
In other words, hump a mile in these guys boots, or STFU!!!!
27 posted on 06/10/2006 7:20:23 PM CDT by sean327 (God created all men equal, then some become Marines!)
This is an article about how Muslim chaplains in the US military are under investigation for referring their spiritual charges to radical clerics.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/988070/posts
This Muslim chaplain has said he would not tell superiors if a detainee had a weapon!
On January 31, 2002, the Miami Herald printed an article (link requires payment of fee) by Carol Rosenberg that starts with the sentence, “You’re the first-ever American Muslim cleric to minister to a prison camp full of suspected terrorists and one confides he has a weapon. Do you keep the secret? Or do you breach religious confidentiality?”
According to Ms. Rosenberg, the Muslim Chaplain, US Navy Lt. Abuhena Mohammad Saiful-Islam would look “for a third way to resolve the clear conflict of interest between the crescent moon pin stuck in your left lapel and the lieutenant’s bars on the right side of your uniform.”
Lt. Saiful-Islam would look “for a third way”? A commissioned officer in the service of the United States Navy, upon discovering the presence of an illegal weapon among suspected terrorists would look “for a third way”? Lt. Saiful-Islam responded: “I will say, ‘give it to me,’ – and not tell the general who had it,.” A commissioned officer would deliberately hide the fact that a terrorism suspect was holding an illegal weapon in a prison?
I believe you're both referring to Lt Yee, US Army. He is the one who was charged.
A Muslim chaplain, not chaplains, his not their.
Some days it just makes you wonder why in the hell you ever put the uniform on.
Yes...And
Shiite Muslim Marine fights the war on terrorism with Company L, 3/25
Marine Corps News ^ | Sep 20, 2005 | Cpl. Ken Melton
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1488432/posts
Columbus, Ohio, native, Sunni Muslim fights in Global War on Terrorism (as a MARINE!)
Marine Corps News ^ | July 27, 2005 | Cpl. Ken Melton
http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/1451921/posts
Hundreds attend funeral of Indian-born U.S. soldier killed in Iraq
YAHOO NEWS ^ | 4th September, 2005
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477166/posts
Once again, you seem to have difficulty answering questions, and in this case, one that was predicated on the follow-up of a direct statment made by you.
Now, are you a lib variety that cannot answer simple questions? Or not?
Your next response will reveal all there!
Once again, in the midst of a failure to communicate, the question stands, again, as predicated on one of your own statements, as stated in post #201 there Chief!
So, which is it. You cannot answer a SIMPLE question, .... or you can?
Ahhh, but for fear that you can't find it, I'll repost it w/ details:
Your statement: The first Amendment is not at odds with anything...it gives us ALL religious freedom.
My follow-up/retort to it:
Just as Islam does,....... RIGHT?!?!
Right there Chief????
Is that it?
So let's see what happens here...
PS I realize that I'm a xenophobe, and mud on a marine's shoes, etc. So just skip all that and answer the question.
OR not!
From the link I provided, it clearly says that Muslim chaplains (that's with an s and is plural) are under investigation.
You think it's a good think this Muslim chaplain is a jihad supporter?
Still having problems with understanding the concept of religious "freedom"...I guess your contempt for the troops is getting in the way.
yeah, and so what? the conviction against Yee was thrown out. What does that have to do with this?
Your link referred to Muslims, not Muslim Chaplains.
Yet another ridiculous statement by you. You'll just have to point out where this freeper has expressed contempt for the troops.
That a navy chaplain doesn't trust this jihad supporting Muslim Chaplain hasn't registered with you a whit I see. So much for supporting ALL the troops. LOL
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