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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Simply another little step in the takeover of America.
They will rule the world as planned, one step at a time.
Teach it in the schools and in the military.
Ping
"We gave those rights to our citizens when we adopted our Constitution."
So, I take it you would have considered the disbanding of the German-American Bund and the various Shinto organization during WWII to be unconstitutional?
Valin
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"
What part of the word NO don't you understand?
Islam is always at war with the Infidel.
Wake up.
Political "correctness" will destroy this country. Patton must be rolling in his grave. I'd love to hear what he would say about this stupidity.
How about Roosevelt erecting a shrine to National Socialism somewhere in DC? After all, Nazism was just hijacked by a militant minority.
No you won't. You're BANNED. :-)
No you won't. You're BANNED. :-)
Allegra says with glee.
Oh that's just great. Fruitbat gets banned. First Amendment...Free Republic...inconsistent.
Yeah, that's it. KEEP STOMPIN' OUT TRUTH.
My glee comes from seeing yet another very rude person sent packing.
If people can't debate without being out and out snotbags, I'm glad to see them move on.
I posted a reasoned response to him and he came back snotty and rude right from the start. I discontinued any discussion with him because I don't associate with people who display such a lack of manners.
We don't need people like that around here and we have far too many as it is.
Yes.
BeHoldAPaleHorse: With all the bozos here prattling on about how the only option we have is to either kill every Muslim, or forcibly convert them to something else (usually Christianity), you're saying that I'M crazy?I swear to God, I feel like these idiots should get a room overlooking the Wannsee.
CWOJackson: You are far worse then a fool...you are a raging arse.
Allegra: We don't need people like that around here and we have far too many as it is.
I'd agree with you except that 'snotbags' are in the eyes of the bepostholder and the judgement of who is or who isn't a snotbag is arbitrary.
If Im hearing you wrong then I apologize, but you sound like a defeatist. The same kind if person who wants to throw in the towel on illegal immigrants because there is just too many of them.
I didn't make the decision to ban Fruitbat and had nothing to do with it, but it appears that the decision-maker agreed with me.
Slowly but surely, the most obnoxious of the FReepers are being kicked out. We've gotten some real losers in here in the last couple of years. Rudeness is frequently coupled with ignorance.
I had one wish me a violent death in a war zone on here simply because I disagreed with him on an issue.
He's no longer with us.
The Mods are doing their jobs.
I hope Fruitbat finds a place where his opinions won't be squelched just because he dares to speak up with the 'untouchables'. Have a good day or night or whatever it is over there. :o)
Excellent analogy!
You most assuredly heard me wrong, because I asked a question, and you didn't provide an answer.
Once again:
How do you propose to destroy a religion with 1.3 billion adherents?
I had one wish me a violent death in a war zone on here simply because I disagreed with him on an issue.
PC exists even here.
Bring back the deterrent of mutually assured destruction and ensure that our adversaries truly believe it.
If any belligerent country truly feared that we would nuke them into the stoneage, we might have a real chance at ending terrorism.
Sitting in their curio cabinets our nuclear weapons now days serve absolutely no purpose. It has come to a point now where not only you and I know that we would never use them, but our enemies as well and so we find ourselves terrorized and unable to strike back effectively once and for all.
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