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US Marines Build Shrine To Islam
Front Page Mag ^ | 6/13/06 | Paul Sperry

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.

The first principle of war is knowing your enemy and what motivates him. The PC-addled Pentagon seems to have forgotten that rule. Click Here to support Frontpagemag.com


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: crushislam; islam; marines; mosque; muslimtroops; outrageous; paulsperry; quantico; ridiculous; terrorists; usmc
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To: CWOJackson
Yes, I see conflict. The conflict is that you would treat U.S. Freakin Marines as third rate citizens! They deserve far better then you.

You're a fool.

81 posted on 06/13/2006 6:04:35 AM PDT by Fruitbat (I)
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To: MudPuppy

And I'll tell you what I know...in the previous article, not written by some knee jerk arsehole, it was plainly stated that it was for Marines. Peddle your crap elsewhere.


82 posted on 06/13/2006 6:05:20 AM PDT by CWOJackson
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To: Buffettfan

Well, the citizens have had to take border patrol into their own hands, looks like the war on terror will be next.


83 posted on 06/13/2006 6:05:51 AM PDT by takenoprisoner (Sorry Mr. Jefferson, we forfeited the God given rights you all put to pen. We have no excuse.)
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To: Fruitbat

You are far worse then a fool...you are a raging arse.


84 posted on 06/13/2006 6:05:59 AM PDT by CWOJackson
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To: CWOJackson

Just curious, but does this base contain a separate church for each faith? One for Catholics, one for Baptists, one for Episcopalians. etc.,? Or is there one facility used by all?


85 posted on 06/13/2006 6:06:52 AM PDT by Hornet19
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To: twm3

"They should've built a shrine to Shinto at Pearl Harbor I guess.. This is the same thing."

We protected the Emperor.


86 posted on 06/13/2006 6:07:32 AM PDT by TET1968 (SI MINOR PLUS EST ERGO NIHIL SUNT OMNIA)
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To: Hornet19
Most bases have nondenominational Christian facilities that are shared by the various Christian faiths; much as the various Christian Chaplains have dispensations from their faiths to cross denominational lines.

When faiths are contrary to each other the services do their best to provide separate facilities.

87 posted on 06/13/2006 6:09:36 AM PDT by CWOJackson
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To: CWOJackson

Where did I say that I don't approve of people being given religious freedom? That religious freedom doesn't include a new mosque for crying out loud.

Muslims pray the world over and don't have access to a mosque every 100 miles.


88 posted on 06/13/2006 6:10:22 AM PDT by Peach (If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
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To: BeHoldAPaleHorse

"So, is all of Islam fighting a war against us?"

That is a good question. Let's give all of the Moslems guns and suicide vests and find out which ones want to kill us.

Islam is not a "great religion". It is a cult/religion following a blood-thirsty murderer. It brooks no opposition, it does not co-exist with other religions. It believes it must reign supreme and will use force to subjegate it's opponents.

The United States should declare that is does not view Islam as a religion in this country. That will be the ONLY way we can defeat Islam. This will be a long and bloody war.


89 posted on 06/13/2006 6:10:23 AM PDT by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right....)
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To: BeHoldAPaleHorse

http://www.challenging-islam.org/contributors/hugh/onislam.htm


90 posted on 06/13/2006 6:10:55 AM PDT by bornacatholic (Pope Paul VI. "Use of the old Ordo Missae is in no way left to the choice of priests or people.")
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To: Fruitbat; CWOJackson
Now, do you see any conflict there CWO with the First Amendment, ... anything, ... anything at all?!

That's a religious doctrine, not some nation's constitution.

Do you honestly believe that every single Muslim follows all of that? Even most of them?

They don't.

91 posted on 06/13/2006 6:11:54 AM PDT by Allegra (Mookie Sadr's Next!)
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To: Peach

You'll allow them to worship...outside. How very considerate of you. I value the troops far more then that...of ALL religions.


92 posted on 06/13/2006 6:12:01 AM PDT by CWOJackson
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To: MudPuppy
Tell my why a Mosque should be built (on a military base) when they now have a space dedicated to meet and there are so few attending.

I really object to a new facility when there's adequate space being provided.

One of these days Islam is going to be so entrenched into the fabric of our society. When that happens, muslims are actually going to push to have their priniciples integrated with societal laws and government, just as they always have done and continue to do as is sponsored by the Koran/Mohammed itself.

When that happens, the direct conflict between our present values as stated in the First Amendment will take a whole new stage. It'll be fight or flight for the US Constitution and the 1st Amendment. For the two cannot possibly coexist.

At the rate that we're going, I expect Islam to win out.

Even CWOJackson states that there's a conflict before conveniently completely overlooking that conflict en route to a continued defense of what will eventually be one of the primary things to bring our Constitution down.

And oh, just by-the-way, the very same Constitution that provides those same rights that CWOJackson and others want to extend to the very same entity that would bring it down. Can shortsightedness and idiocy possibly be defined any better?

But how people can continue to allow for the spread of the very thing that counters our entire way of life in this country, with its freedoms and all, coupled with the sheer ignorance that should such a thing expand beyond a certain point it would override those very same freedoms, is absolutley astonishing! Astonishing!!!

93 posted on 06/13/2006 6:14:18 AM PDT by Fruitbat (I)
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To: Fruitbat

You are not worthy of the dirt on a Muslim Marine's boots.


94 posted on 06/13/2006 6:15:10 AM PDT by CWOJackson
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To: CWOJackson

How do you know that the place dedicated for 24 Muslims to pray is outside?

Last I knew there was dedicated space INSIDE for everyone of every faith to worship.


95 posted on 06/13/2006 6:15:31 AM PDT by Peach (If you can't stand behind our military, stand in front of them.)
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To: BeHoldAPaleHorse

Victory will look like the state of the world after the end of the Ottoman Empire and prior to the revification of Militant Islam in the late 60's early 70's. And Militant Islam has been the same for 13 centuries. It will be the same until the end of time.


96 posted on 06/13/2006 6:16:03 AM PDT by bornacatholic (Pope Paul VI. "Use of the old Ordo Missae is in no way left to the choice of priests or people.")
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To: Peach
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.

This bothers me the most.

97 posted on 06/13/2006 6:17:01 AM PDT by prairiebreeze (“Double or triple our troubles and we would still be better off than any people on earth.”---Reagan)
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To: CWOJackson
You are far worse then a fool...you are a raging arse.

In your world, I know I am there CWO. I lay out everything in very easy to read, well thought out arguments, and all you do is come back with petty, childish, and idiotic retorts such as the above.

Any readers with a brain can see through your agendized charade with ease.

Meanwhile, if you need a ladder to crawl back into W's butt, just let me know. In the meantime, spare me the petty BS. You'll be doing yourself a favor too.

BTW, anytime you want to elaborate on the "conflicts" that you admit exist, but then gloss over as if they don't, I'm game. Naturally I won't expect anything nearly as intelligent or well thought out as that from you however.

You're a petty MB pitbull, little else.

98 posted on 06/13/2006 6:17:22 AM PDT by Fruitbat (I)
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To: Peach

It isn't outside...it's inside their new facility.


99 posted on 06/13/2006 6:17:40 AM PDT by CWOJackson
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To: bornacatholic; BeHoldAPaleHorse; Allegra; CWOJackson; Peach; Fruitbat
Look, the debate has rolled all around the issue until post #71 (thank you fruitbat). BeHoldAPaleHorse, your condescension and flippancy are infuriating and not conducive to an open debate.

Fact: Islam seeks world conquest. Whether moderate or extremist, they all have the same goal to turn Dar Al Harb (the world at war) into Dar Al Islam (the world in submission--their version of peace). It doesn't matter that it's done through conversion, subversion or explosion... they still seek the same. Their religious tenets, as shown in post #71 are simply to unmake the USA as a country valuing freedom of conscience into a middle eastern model of subjugation to Koranic authority.

Given this fact, I don't consider it a good thing that our government chooses to support this cult. You will not find a compound for the branch dividians on a base and you shouldn't find a MILCON project for 24 people when there is another facility just outside the post. It defies logic and common sense.

100 posted on 06/13/2006 6:18:19 AM PDT by pgyanke (Christ has a tolerance for sinners; liberals have a tolerance for sin.)
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