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 have a friend who say's "The wonderful thing about America is you can be just as stupid as you want."
Many of the replies on this thread prove that to be true.
This is all very PC but these people will see it as a sign of weakness.
Because the article clearly states that Muslim chaplains (plural) are under investigation.
Did you notice that this Muslim chaplain wouldn't tell his superiors if he took a weapon off a detainee? That the Naval chaplain doesn't trust him? That the Muslim chaplain is a jihad supporter?
His contempt, and that of others is more then obvious.
It's a very simple one. The question that everyone needs to be asking is:
Do the tenets of Islam as outlined by its founder, Mohammed, and as documented in the Koran, the book that if mishandled the muslim world goes apeitsh about, parallel the tenets of the foundation of this nation.
The answer can only be "YES" or "NO."
If "Yes," then no problem.
If "No" however, then indeed a problem considering that we are allowing Islam to expand well into our own nation, thereby without question laying the foundation for a very serious confrontation of one sort or another at some point in the future within our nation, and the outcome of which could quite possibly mean the oppression and even death of a good many Americans, particularly those that do not adhere to the muslim faith, namely non-muslims.
There really ins't anything more that needs to be discussed until that notion is "cleared up."
Would we have, did we, allow Nazis to permeate our nation during and before WWII?
Why not?
Wasn't that against the Constitution and its First Amendment too?
If not, then why not?
I keep coming back to this thread to see if you'll answer a simple question. So far... nope... just insults...
It seems some want to elevate that to a whole new level.
Again, if not, then why not?
Was it against our Constitution?
No. What I DO think is there are good Muslims and bad...just like Christians...Jews...Hindus....etc.
"Anyone who judges a man by the group is a peawit".
Sgt Kilrain "The Killer Angels"
No. All of islam is fighting a war with us.
Some use bombs
Some use knives
Some use words
Some actively support the violence
and
The rest just quietly support the violent.
You are a simple question...and the answer is a waste of oxygen.
Can you not read? My link clearly refers to Muslim Chaplains.
The chaplains programme in the US military and federal prison system is under formal investigation by the Pentagon and Justice Department following complaints that Muslim chaplains were referring their spiritual charges to radical clerics, some of whom advocate jihad against America.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/988070/posts
I'm aware of Lee. Seems I remember some controversy, not illegality, around Lt. Saifulislam a few years ago. If I remember, I'll post it. Not particularly relevant to the issue in any case. Obviously they're entitled to a place to worship, and just as obviously wahabbism as well as "outreach" are concerns.
While I realize that many here might be offended by these remarks, they need to seriously reflect on what they think will be the eventual outcome if America continues down the path it has.
Living outside of the United States as I do gives a unique perspective that many of my fellow Americans back home simply don't possess.
It is and has been over the last few years extremely painful to watch America continue in earnest to destroy itself.
America and Americans are a unique culture, a young one who seems unable to foresee the future or the effects that the endless social engineering will do. Im of the opinion that society and culture are more fragile that we realize. History has show us and yet we ignore it.
In my many years overseas I have never met a people who hate themselves so much as Americans do. Do you see the Japanese or Swiss using every opportunity to knock their own country?
Most people I meet are proud of their countries and where they are from. Americans are the only people I have ever met overseas who relentlessly bad mouth their own country. Do you think people of other countries respect you after you spout that?
this rant will be continued later ....
I move to have the words "tolerance" and "respect" taken out of the dictionary. Will someone please second this motion.
Yeah, got anything newer than 3 years ago?! I know the government works slowly, but come on. If you are saying Muslims shouldn't be in the US army, say so, and we can change the debate to that rather than whether they should have a prayer room off the chapel.
Just when I thought the days of spitting on the troops was over.
No one's in favor of denying them their ability to worship. I don't think that that's what this is all about.
Can I create my own religion and then have our govenrment/military pay for a shrine for me too?
After all, should the government prevent my "rights?"
How about a shrine/religious building to other religions?
Go see a doctor Chief. See if that blood is flowing.
I have absolutely zero respect for you because you won't engage on the simplest of points by addressing facts, namely statements from the 1st Amendment that you seem to be ranting about and the Koran, about which either you know nothing or are ignoring to the favor of your arguments.
I just love it when people talk tough but won't come out directly on direct challenges. Reminds me of tactics that those opposing our forces in Iraq use, just polemically. ; )
Yes, the concept of religious freedom in this country sure does seem to stump the crap right out of you. The thought of extending it to our troops seems to make you shudder.
No one's in favor of denying them their ability to worship. I don't think that that's what this is all about.
Can I create my own religion and then have our govenrment/military pay for a shrine for me too?
After all, should the government prevent my "rights?"
How about a shrine/religious building to other religions?
Go see a doctor Chief. See if that blood is flowing.
I have absolutely zero respect for you because you won't engage on the simplest of points by addressing facts, namely statements from the 1st Amendment that you seem to be ranting about and the Koran, about which either you know nothing or are ignoring to the favor of your arguments.
I just love it when people talk tough but won't come out directly on direct challenges. Reminds me of tactics that those opposing our forces in Iraq use, just polemically. ; )
I'll repeat, you are not worthy of the dust on the boots of a Muslim Marine.
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