Take a look at your new home Abdul, you traitor! Personally, I think he should be shot or hung seeing as how we will be at war any day now. This makes you wonder if a Muslim is capable of serving in the US military.
Posted on 02/16/2003 1:12:10 AM PST by kattracks
Ghanim Khalil doesn't want to break the law, but says he may be forced to.
The 26-year-old Army National Guard reservist said yesterday that if he's called up to help fight Iraq in the coming weeks, he'll refuse to go.
"If I'm asked to go to the Middle East, I will not," Khalil, of Staten Island, said at a news conference yesterday before he headed over to the anti-war rally near the United Nations.
"I believe if this war occurs, it is a violation of human rights," added Khalil, a Muslim with Pakistani roots.
Khalil, a supply specialist, said he has been given no date for when his unit at the Marcy Ave. Armory in Brooklyn might be called up.
"I've been told that it's only a matter of time," he said.
Khalil sat with members of the advocacy group Citizen Soldier, some of whom are veterans of past wars who are opposed to another Iraqi conflict.
Khalil, who spent four years on active duty with the Marines, said some of his opposition stems from his religious beliefs.
"As a Muslim, I have objections" to the war, he said.
But he called his protests universal, saying people of all faiths have spoken out against Persian Gulf War II.
Khalil said he realized he could go to jail if he refuses to follow orders ? but that he's within his legal rights to speak out against the war.
National Guard spokesman Col. Dan Stoneking wouldn't comment on Khalil specifically, saying, "All Americans have First Amendment rights," but that reservists who won't serve would be sanctioned.
Wiser words where never written.
Bump and a Badaping!.
and as an American, I have objections to people like you.
Take a look at your new home Abdul, you traitor! Personally, I think he should be shot or hung seeing as how we will be at war any day now. This makes you wonder if a Muslim is capable of serving in the US military.
Don't you think there are others, of other races, in the military that feel the same?
Defining 'jihad'
Staten Island: As a law-abiding citizen and former Marine, I am appalled at how the Daily News defends the distorted definition of "jihad" in its Dec. 22 report on textbooks. The idea is to dispel ignorance, not defend it.
Ghanim Khalil
Alternative oath: "I do solemnly swear that I will look out for Number One, take all the freebies I can get my hands on, including job security, a paycheck, and free education, and that I will break my word as needed. So help me God (insert Allah here, as need be.)"
Didn't George Washington say, "Put only Americans on guard tonight?" before a key battle?
Payback (with attached lien, garnishment) of all education paid for by the Marines.
It is time. Is is time for this nation to first return to its roots of morality, the Bible. I've been begging those I come in contact with to do so. If they don't they're going to have more people like you who demand we apologize for opposing evil. Islam is evil. Those who follow it are evil. History has proved that and internal evidence in the religion (the Koran and present day Imam commentary) document that position.
Apologize? Never. I have strongly advocated here deportation for Muslims and would do so in a heartbeat...that's their wives, their little ones, their dogs, their cattle and everything that belongs to them. I wouldn't rob them, but would make it a very severe crime to bring that religion back into this nation.
Still want an apology?
And that hasn't stopped either religion--or nations that purport to follow them--from committing heinous bloodshed.
It's a "beam and mote" thing.
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