Muslims in the U.S. military are as loyal as any, chaplain says (Now Chaplain caught as Islamic spy)

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER ^ | Saturday, October 20, 2001 | MIKE BARBER

[Destro]

Islamic chaplain is charged as spy Yup, the same one in this article.

[WOSG]

Time to contact presstitute Mike Barber and say: ""You've been scammed!"

[Destro]

This article about Yee came out a month after 9/11.

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[SC Swamp Fox]

Good catch, well done!

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

I WAS one of the most tolerant people I've ever known!

9-11 opened up my eyes to the truth of Islam.

[VOA]

thanks for the cross-reference to the current article...

[Chu Gary]

I say, re-assign all these Muslims in the US Military as kitchen personnel, washing dishes, then serve a lot of pork ribs every week. The troops would be happy as hell!

[Sabertooth]

What was the religious affiliation of the US soldier who tossed a grenade into an officers' tent, killing several, during the Iraq War?

What was the motivation for his fragging?

[niteowl77]

Time to contact presstitute Mike Barber and say: "You've been scammed!"

The worst of it is that he (Barber) was used to spread palatable poison to a wider audience.

[Migraine]

And in the first U.S. war with religious overtones,

All wars have religious overtones. But, how soon we forget. The war w/ Japan, whose emperor was god in the Shinto scheme of things, caused America to do a lot of scrambling to see to it that adherents of Shinto here in America could be in no position to do us harm from within. So people were interned, many of them quite loyal. But it only takes one; and in war, you must do everything to win -- including rounding up potential saboteurs, because it IS war. How soon we forget.

[Travis McGee]

The Russians put it nicely.

Smertz Spionam!

Death to Spies!

[SauronOfMordor]

Yee is chaplain of the 700-member 29th Signal Battalion, which counts nearly a dozen Muslim soldiers in its ranks.

So, let me get this straight. We have a dozen Muslims in a SIGNAL BATTALION, with access to secret US crypto gear?

[Finny]

"When Mohammed Ali, the boxing champ, visited the attack site at the World Trade Center, a reporter asked him, 'How do you feel about the suspected hijackers sharing your faith?'" Yee noted. Ali answered, "How do you feel about Hitler sharing yours?"

What kind of a MORON is the reporter to use this in the story at all? Hitler was not a practicing, professing Christian, and he did not do what he did in the name of God or Jesus Christ. What part of "Allah Akbar!" doesn't Yee and the reporter understand?

[Destro]

Like I said--what an weirdly high percentage, eh?

[Destro]

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[SwinneySwitch]

"How do you feel about Hitler sharing yours?"

The reporter probably was an athiest or agnostic!

[xzins]

I am a recently retired chaplain. The islamic chaplaincy is a security mistake that will only serve to injure our nation.

Our leaders believe there exists a "pacifist" version of Islam. I think that's naive and belied by any reasonably literate interpretation of the actual words on the pages of the Koran. I've watched and read as islamic scholars are asked if democracy is a viable governmental system according to the Koran. To a man they've denied democracy and insisted that a caliphate is the only credible government according to islamic law. Think abou that for even a fraction of a moment, and you'll see the issue.

The religion itself calls on islamics within our military to deny the validity our governmental structure.

This is a black eye for the chaplaincy. It documents for me the incredible mistake of our chaplaincy providing organizing opportunities for islam within our own military through the religious programs, structures, and budgets. We must remember that fundamental islam believes there should be no distinction between religious and governmental structures.

Xzins
Chaplain (Retired) US Army

[Sabertooth]

Thanks for that post. I'd like to suggest that you expand on it a bit, and post your observations as their own thread. Information like yours is invaluable, and it's important to get it past the newsfilters of the organized media.

[King Prout]

I used to be rather tolerant of Islam and Muslims.
I used to believe that Muslims could peaceably coexist with non-muslims within this republic.
I am no longer convinced of that notion - not even close.
With all love and apologies to my many Muslim friends (lapsed, without exception), I do believe it is time for Americans to strongly consider and publicly debate a modification-by-Amendment of the First Amendment to the Constitution. Some "religions" are intrinsically inimical to the health, integrity, and continuance of a constitutional republic such as ours, and cannot be tolerated.