The courage to admit Muslim danger: Islamists in military disloyal to America

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | Tuesday, February 17, 2004 | Barbara Simpson

[JohnHuang2]

The courage to admit Muslim danger

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Posted: February 16, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

It happened again! What are we going to do about it?

Young, good-looking, college graduate, American citizen, Army National Guardsman, self-proclaimed shooter and gun collector, Muslim convert ... arrested for espionage, possible traitor.

Twenty-six-year-old Spc. Ryan G. Anderson is the man. He's a tank crew member of the 81st Armor Brigade, training at Fort Lewis near Tacoma, Wash. Four-thousand strong, they're preparing to leave for Iraq this week.

Anderson won't be with them. He's under arrest. The Army says he was taken into custody and will stay behind bars "pending criminal charges of aiding the enemy by wrongfully attempting to communicate and give intelligence" to the Islamic militant group, al-Qaida.

Apparently there's enough to hold and charge him.

Would that we'd have the courage to follow through if he's found guilty of espionage. The firing squad is the historic solution for those who sell out their country, but I fear in our politically correct world, that wouldn't happen. But there's another more powerful reason than political correctness. Religion.

We're in a real war that involves religion. It's arguably the first such war this country has faced and I'm afraid we haven't the guts or the heart to handle it properly for fear of offending someone.

Personally, I find treason more offensive.

I hear the usual arguments: Our country was founded on religious freedom. Everyone has the right to their own religion with no interference. It wouldn't be right to investigate the religion of military members.

But accepting that, it follows that even if we see a dangerous pattern involving individuals of a certain religion, we can't focus on it to protect ourselves or screen it out.

Talk about being sitting ducks!

Anderson is part of that pattern, which could become more evident, as the war against terrorism continues.

Air Force translator, Sr. Airman Ahmed Al Halabi, a native of Syria who moved to Detroit as a teenager, has been accused of relaying 180-plus classified messages from al-Qaida and Taliban terrorists at Guantanamo Bay.

Capt. James Yee, now Youseff Yee, a former Fort Lewis chaplain, was accused of mishandling classified documents for terrorists at Guantanamo, where he was also a chaplain.

An American-born Chinese, raised Lutheran and a graduate of West Point, he left the military, studied in Syria, converted to Islam, married a Syrian woman, returned to the U.S. and rejoined the military.

Mark Fidel Kools, spent his youth in California and is a California graduate who enrolled in ROTC. He also studied at an Islamic mosque in Los Angeles and changed his name to Asan Akbar.

Part of the 101st Airborne in Kuwait last March, he rolled grenades into three tents of sleeping officers and shot at least two in the back as they ran from the explosions. One man was killed, 15 injured.

Officials reported Akbar had been "having what some might call an attitude problem." We're told the motive "most likely was resentment" – about the war against Islamic terrorists.

Apparently, no one paid any attention to the clues – there are others.

Estimates are there are 4,000 to15, 000 (or more) Muslims in the military. No one counts. Ft. Lewis spokesman Lt. Col. Stephen Barger says "religious preferences are individual right and responsibility."

Uh-oh. We have a big problem because we're ignoring the implications and avoiding reality.

How do we know Muslims in the military are loyal to the uniform and the country?

We don't.

What is there in Islam that leads people to choose it above their country? These issues don't present with other religions.

We know Islamic teachings say Muslims should not fight other Muslims – that, in the case of conflict, fealty to Muhammad is supreme.

If that's the case, do we want people of those beliefs in our military or in places of delicate security where explicit trust is required?

Inasmuch as other Islamic teachings say it's acceptable to lie to infidels (non-Muslims), whom do we believe?

Ryan Anderson hinted his ambivalence about the United States in one of his many letters to the editor. He said he had only "kindness, patience, courtesy and understanding" from Muslims, but "bigotry, hatred and mindless rage from ... 'educated thinkers' ... in the U.S."

In a 1998 letter, he said: "Today I am a young soldier, sworn to protect and defend this country. But if tomorrow I find that this nation is no longer the one based upon the freedom I was taught to love, I'll have little choice but to go where I can live in freedom."

We're warned of terrorist sleeper cells already in this country. We know many mosques preach hatred of the West. We know that few Muslims speak out against the radicals among them and we know Muslims are in every part of American life.

What we don't know is whom to trust.

We haven't protected ourselves from those with evil intent who hide among the innocent to perpetuate their intent to destroy us.

If we don't devise a way to re-evaluate Muslims to assure everyone's safety, we'll lose the war before we fight it – which is exactly the terrorist's goal.

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[JohnHuang2]

Tuesday, February 17, 2004

Quote of the Day by js1138

[backhoe]

-Islam, a Religion of Peace®? Some links...--

[TADSLOS]

We're in a real war that involves religion. It's arguably the first such war this country has faced and I'm afraid we haven't the guts or the heart to handle it properly for fear of offending someone.

It is no accident that the organized and heavily funded islamic movement in this country made the PC mantra of "diversity" and "inclusiveness" part of their lexicon over the years. It has invaded silently, and allows the seeds of islamic hate to flourish, undisturbed within our own borders. This is their great strategic weapon, far more effective in the long run than any bomb or terror attack.

The PC phenomenon that injects cultural hypersensitivity has influenced and changed policy in all facets of our daily lives, including the military, and it remains pervasive. Organizations such as the UN and the DNC are fertile breeding grounds for it. It is no wonder that radical islam (a redundant term if ever there was one)hides behind and uses them to such great advantage.

[ppaul]

We done been infiltrated.....

[Mr. Mojo]

It is no wonder that radical islam (a redundant term if ever there was one)hides behind and uses them to such great advantage.

Yep, it uses all our weaknesses to its advantage. The only way we're going to win this war is if we toss the whole PC handbook in the trash.

[lainde]

Thanks for the links!

[backhoe]

Thanks for looking!

[Poundstone]

And don't forget the Muslim U.S. soldier who lobbed a grenade into a tent at his camp early in our invasion of Iraq. I think he killed at least one of his officers before he was arrested.

Haven't heard diddly-squat since then about his fate.

[Valin]

"It is easy to fly into a passion--anybody can do that--but to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way, that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it."
Aristotle

[wtc911]

You keep waving the muslim flag and doing your little dance for them but until muslims in America start behaving like they are part of this country instead of just here your audience will be yourself.

Instead of trying to convince us of muslim intentions why not spend your energy convincing them to end their obstructionist attitude which even includes muslim FBI agents refusing to wear a wire on their muslim brothers.

Are you a muslim?

[Valin]

You keep waving the muslim flag and doing your little dance for them but until muslims in America start behaving like they are part of this country instead of just here your audience will be yourself.

A Muslim Patriot's Call
The Arizona Republic via FrontPage Magazine ^ | October 13, 2003 | Oubai Mohammad Shahbandar

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1000468/posts
Posted on 10/13/2003 4:03:04 PM CDT by quidnunc


Where is the outrage in the American Muslim community?


Two years after 9/11, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), the American Muslim Council (AMC), the Muslim Students Association (MSA) and similar groups are still respectfully regarded as the voices of American Muslims, despite the fact that members of these organizations have been apologists for extremism and even linked to terrorist groups. Almost no one - Muslim or non-Muslim - dares criticize these groups for their positions or their associations.


What's more, these groups shamelessly attack, demean and attempt to intimidate Muslims who are loyal to this great nation. They continue to attempt to persuade American Muslims to view themselves not as patriots but as victims.


Muslim community newspapers are silent about these issues. They write nothing about the MSA-directed groups that stage anti-American rallies, attack people who speak out about the pernicious activities of the Saudis, or simply challenge the talking points of the establishment Muslim groups on anything taking place in the Arab and Islamic worlds.


In particular, proud Muslims who are also proud Americans need to tell the truth about Wahhabism, the intolerant and militant brand of Islam being exported from Saudi Arabia and which is defended in the United States by CAIR, AMC and MSA.


I know about these issues firsthand. As a Muslim student at Arizona State University who abhors Wahhabism, I've been the victim of MSA's hate campaigns. For my efforts in organizing a "Support our Troops" rally the day that Operation Iraqi Freedom started, I was told by several MSA members that I was "going to hell." In a Letter to the Editor in the campus paper, the president of the MSA even accused me of being guilty of bigotry toward Arabs and Muslims. In his view, it was anti-Muslim of me to want to see Iraqi Muslims liberated from the oppression of Saddam Hussein, who has murdered more Muslims than anyone else in this century, and perhaps in any century.


Terrorism has not been far from the Arizona State University campus. On May 9, a Saudi student at ASU, Muhammad Al-Gurashi, was arrested; he had been the driver who escorted convicted terrorist supporter Faisal Al-Salmi to President Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch on what were apparently reconnaissance missions.

"Are you a muslim?"
NO! And what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?
Me, I stand with the President. who do you stand with? The KKK.

[wtc911]

Your muslim apologist postings of the occassional self-serving editorial by some local muslim means nothing. When your boys actively join the WOT intead of obstructing our LE Org efforts then you'll have something to talk about.

I don't trust muslims. I have no reason to. And, as I've said in the past, I know too much about how the "average" guy in the mosque road blocks our legal efforts to feel comfortable with them. To you that makes me a KKKer...pretty stupid.

[Valin]

Terrorism Undermines Political Islam in Indonesia (secular parties still heavily preferred)
Yale Global ^ | 26 November 2003 | Endy M. Bayuni
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1030817/posts?page=3

I don't trust muslims. I have no reason to

Get a clue.

[wtc911]

Look at the headline you posted, it refers to Political Islam. What other religion dictates the form of government for its people?

Posting some article from Indonesia, where islam is eating itself, is meaningless in reference to islam in America, which is the issue.

muslims here are not helping, they are obstructing. That's the fact which is a whole lot better than a clue. If you can post an article about a US based muslim terror cell being busted due to the assistance of other muslims then go ahead, do it. Until then, shake your pom poms at someone else.

[fella]

Who is Barbara Simpson? She an other Ann Coulter?