Posted on 09/21/2003 1:51:03 AM PDT by sarcasm
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:08:28 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Military officials yesterday confirmed that a Muslim chaplain who was counseling al Qaeda prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, naval base has been detained since Sept. 10 after being found in possession of classified documents.
The Washington Times first reported yesterday that Army Capt. James. J. Yee is being held at the Naval Consolidated Brig in Charleston, S.C., charged with sedition, espionage, aiding the enemy, spying and failing to obey a general order.
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Inquiring minds want to know.
Why are we teaching Islam at West Point???????
As the article says, Yee was raised as a Lutheran. I suspect that he is the product of the "liberal" form of Lutheranism, with its watered-down theology and all-too-"mainline" ways. If he had been exposed to REAL Lutheran Christianity, he would have loved Christ much too much to even THINK of converting to islam. He would also have loved Christ's people much too much to ever turn traitor against them.
This isn't just about Lutheranism--it is about all "mainline" Protestantism and much of American Catholicism, and Judaism as well. (I myself am a Lutheran.) it is the weakness, the watered-down theology, and the corruption (i.e., being "gay-friendly", refusing to stand up for Christians under persecution, etc.) of most of Western Christianity in the US that leaves the door open for many people to find a religion with more "discipline"--i..e, islam. However, what these "converts'" really needed all the time was real Christianity, for which islam is a very poor substitute indeed.
I think this represents a major failure of security (in this case the Army). The key point is not his religion, but the fact he converted to Islam and spent four years in Syria, a terrorist sponsoring state !!!. Are the officers and civilians in charge of Army clearances incompetent or reckless ? Does anyone care to speak up for the Army ?
Of course it does. However, as long as we have hundreds of Wahhabi-funded fifth-columnist islamofascist mosques operating in the US, they (and at least a few of the Americans they convert) will find ways to subvert us, no matter how tight our security is.
Moreover, the tragic downfall of "mainline" Christianity makes the islamists believe they can win over the "corrupt, decadent" US. Think, for example, what most muslims (and even more so islamofascists) think when the "mainline" denominations accept homosexuality, and when they don't lift a finger or even protest when Christians are persecuted in islamic countries.
Rome's Envoy to Saudi Arabia Converts to Islam
It is not just the U.S. that has the problem. Jews have been resisting for centuries but there seems to be a breakdown of resolve among the nations.
You are right about all too many European Christians converting to islam. Western churches are in trouble, except in Eastern Europe, parts of Asia, and in the global South (where they are fluorishing).
As for Judaism, it also is largely (with some exceptions) a spritual vaccuum in the US. And there are "Jews for Allah" (there is even a website by that name), including the islamist fifth columnist Stephen Schwartz/Suleyman Ahmad, who works to inflame relations between Roman Catholics and Orthodox Christians.
The main center of Christian resistance to islam is the Orthodox Church. And a significant number of Western Christians are converting to Orthodox Christianity, thus totally bypassing and opposing the siren call of the Wahhabi "missionaries".
Why the FBIies? This is a military member accussed of committing a crime on a military installation and in conjunction with his military duties. It's not their jurisdiction. He should be facing a court martial, rather than a trial in a civilian court. The UCMJ looks unkindly on the actions of which he is accused.
Why are we teaching Islam at West Point???????
We aren't. It doesn't say he learned it at West Point, but rather while there. Not the same thing at all.
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