No he wasn’t.
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Mark Fidel Kools was renamed Hasan Karim Akbar by his mother after she remarried and converted to Islam,
Akbar's mother, Quran Bilal, did tell reporters that she believed intolerance for his race and his Muslim faith created tensions within his unit as it prepared to invade a Muslim country.
Akbar's father has said that his son was the only African American and only Muslim in his company, the other members of which subjected him to constant harassment.
Akbar himself reportedly said, just moments after his arrest, "You guys are coming into our countries, and you're going to rape our women and kill our children.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_Akbar