Can a good Muslim be a good American?

A friend who knows | 8/11/2006 | Agent Smith

[Agent Smith]

Thanks for the proper source.

[kabar]

Send them packing.

Yeah right. I can see the American people and our legal system approving the shipping out of the country six million american citizens because of their religion. Can you imagine Louis Farakhan's reaction?

[rightinthemiddle]

Another one:
http://www.nysun.com/article/31393

"Out of the 1.4 million service men and women serving actively in the American military, an estimated 3,700 are Muslim, according to the Department of Defense."

Not very many...I wonder how many are of Middle Eastern/Asian descent?

[litehaus]

"Ship all of them back to the dark ages."

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Lemme be the first...BACK?

[durasell]

I would define devout as not a nut job. The recent nuttiness started less than 60 years ago in the U.S., no less.

[hoagy62]

Okay...can it be done without us looking like a bunch of paranoid xenophobes to the rest of the world?

Or should we even care what the rest of the world thinks?

Better yet, what US government would actually do this, because this one won't?

[Graymatter]

I don't want to quibble with something I substantially agree with, but where in the Quran is a Muslim "instructed" to marry four women? I believe they are told they may have up to four if they can accommodate four, but nowhere is it said that four is better than one.

[coconutt2000]

It has already been established that any Muslim considered devout and "good" according to Islam's tenets and the Koran cannot be considered a good American.

But there are a lot of bad Muslims who get along fine with the rest of us, and generally make decent Americans.

[RegulatorCountry]

I don't know what the Constitutional answer is, but it's become obvious that continuing with the PC crap is going to get a lot of US citizens killed, within the US.

[wita]

PS Ever since a certain cassius clay became someone else, I have had a thing for name changing supposed americans who bask in the luxury and freedom of these United States of America, but have an entirely different agenda, which is now coming to the front burner of everyone else in the country.

[kabar]

The number of Muslims in the U.S. military is hard to estimate. Estimates vary from 4,000 to more than 12,000.

Islam is the fastest growing religion in the United States. The Council on American-Islamic Relations here estimates there are now 6 million Muslims in America compared to 2 million in the early 1970s. Nearly half are African-American converts. The rest are immigrants from such countries as India, Pakistan, and Arab and African nations.

U.S. Marine Corps Establishes First Islamic Prayer Center

[prophetic]

bump 4 later

[reagan_fanatic]

No one knows what's in everyone else's heart. Are there muslims who put allegiance to the United States first? Probably, although I suspect they are a small minority. A good muslims first allegiance is to islam, which is quite clear in its exhortations to conquer the infidels and convert them to islam.

Many of them, although loathe to say so in public, support efforts to undermine American democracy in favor of a government based on the teachings of islam. In other words, they lend moral support to the overthrow of the U.S. Government. That makes them a clear and present danger to our way of life, and something to be very concerned about.

[wita]

Louis would be on the first barge out of brooklyn. I know, but harlem doesn't rhyme.

[george76]

A recent British poll was released that shocked most UK folks.

Generally it said that Muslims said Islam first, then UK.

Thus their loyality was not to the UK.

[OregonRancher]

What year did you graduate from HD? '61 here.

[sweet_diane]

"some devout muslims have fought in the war on terror, in US Military."

Isn't there an oath one takes when he or she begins US military service where they pledge alligence to the USA? And if they do, isn't that directly opposed to the muslim law?

[the invisib1e hand]

You might wish to define "devout" ~

If you disagree, I'd say the burden is upon you to review your definition. "Devout" does not necessarily mean "radical" or "murderous."

[kabar]

The enemy is militant Islamic fundamentalism, not Islam. The enemy is trying to radicalize the world's 1.2 billion Muslims by making this a religious struggle. In reality, we are tallking about a small radical fringe group, which has been killing more Muslims than anyone else. We play into their hands by demonizing Islam.