Posted on 08/07/2006 5:29:43 AM PDT by SJackson
Few people ever see Ismile Althaibani’s Purple Heart. He keeps the medal tucked away in a dresser. His Marine uniform is stored in a closet. His hair is no longer shaved to the scalp.
It has been 20 months since he returned from Iraq after a roadside explosion shattered his left foot. He never expected a hero’s welcome, and it never came — none of the balloons or hand-written signs that greeted another man from his unit who lived blocks away.
Mr. Althaibani, 23, was the last of five young marines to come home to an extended family of Yemeni immigrants in Brooklyn. Like the others, he grew accustomed to the uneasy stares and prying questions. He learned not to talk about his service in the company of Muslim neighbors and relatives.
“I try not to let people know I’m in the military,” said Mr. Althaibani, a lance corporal in the Marine Corps Reserve.
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If they read the NYT, then they know now.
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A very telling remark.
Still, he served America. That cannot be taken away.
"Islamic scholars have long debated the circumstances under which it is permissible for Muslims to fight one another. The arguments are intricate, centering on the question of what constitutes a just war.
In Brooklyn, those fine points are easily lost. Here, many immigrants say that killing Muslims is simply wrong, and they cite the Koran as proof. Their opposition to the war is rooted as much in religion, they say, as in Arab solidarity."
If a BARF ALERT isnt called for here then how about a "WHAT A JOKE" lable?
He's a Marine. He was injured in service to our country. And this is the NYTs.
I wonder how much of this story is fluff inserted by the NYTs reporter, and how much the Marine knew about how his story would be told.
Keep in mind the injured soldiers who were used in Michael Moore's movie F911.
Meanwhile, Muslim kills Muslim every day in Iraq and now in Lebanon.
That quote is laughable. Muslims are perfectly willing to kill each other and do it all the time. Afghanistan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Somalia. Heck the list goes on forever.
a lot to think about there
Yeah - it's more a question of when are they not killing each other!
Oh yeah, the future's going to be good.
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