Posted on 06/13/2006 4:51:14 AM PDT by Buffettfan
US Marines Build Shrine To Islam
By Paul Sperry
FrontPageMagazine.com
June 13, 2006 http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22845
We are at war with militant Islam, but you wouldn't know it from the Pentagon, which is busy erecting a shrine to Islam just five short years after Islamic terrorists destroyed a good chunk of its own building and killed more than 100 of its occupants. Worse, it's consulting on the project with a Wahhabi-educated cleric posing as a moderate.
Last week, military brass -- along with representatives from the terror-tied Council on American-Islamic Relations -- dedicated the first Muslim prayer center for the Marines as a symbol of the military's "religious tolerance" and "respect" for the faith the enemy uses to attack us. Already, plans are in the works to build by 2009 a bigger mosque at the Marine base in Quantico so Muslim service members can have a "proper place" to worship, and one that "honors their religious heritage," officials say, not realizing that the mosque can also be used by the enemy to build a Fifth Column inside the Marines.
The idea for the center came from Navy Lt. Abuhena Mohammed Saifulislam, a young, smooth-talking Muslim chaplain, who wanted a permanent place of worship -- and "education" -- for the growing number of soldiers who are interested in -- and converting to -- Islam.
Quantico has only 24 Muslims on base, so the mosque -- the first of its kind in the 230-year history of the Corps -- will also serve to introduce and draw other Marines to the faith. Large posters explaining how "Muslims love and respect Jesus" (but only as a minor prophet and not the son of God, which they view as blasphemous to Allah) line the inside of the white building. This is one way imam Saifulislam -- known on base simply as "Saif" -- bridges the faiths to reach out to Christian soldiers. Blacks are particularly susceptible to his pitch.
Apparently, whatever Saifulislam wants, he gets -- even at the terrorist prison camp at Gitmo, where he was first assigned after 9-11. There, he recommended that al-Qaida detainees be served halal meals -- including traditional dates and lamb -- prepared according to Islamic dietary law. The Gitmo menu now boasts 113 Muslim-appropriate meals for the benefit of finicky terrorist tummies.
That's not all. Thanks to Saifulislam's advice, our enemy now wakes to the sound of Muslim chaplains calling them to prayer instead of barking dogs or guards, who are now trained in Muslim sensitivity. Also thanks to Saifulislam, detainees can brush up on jihad by reading paperback Pentagon-issued copies of the Quran. They can even finger prayer beads and wear makeshift turbans and skull caps.
While at Gitmo, the Navy imam privately counseled al-Qaida prisoners in their native tongues of Urdu and Arabic. "I must give hope for them to cope," Saifulislam said. How thoughtful of him.
It turns out Saifulislam also ministered to Marine Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, a fellow Muslim charged with desertion, just before he went AWOL again last year. Hassoun deserted his post in Iraq where he served as an Arabic translator. After he was captured, and after he met with the Quantico imam, he deserted again.
Saifulislam is clean-cut with a Colgate smile. The Pentagon gives him great latitude because he claims to be moderate.
However, Saifulislam studied Islam at a hardline Wahhabi school in Virginia that was raided by federal authorities after 9-11. And one of his mentors is Taha Jaber Al-Alwani, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Sami al-Arian terror case. Federal court records allege he gave at least $50,000 in jihad money "to support suicide bombings" in Israel.
Saifulislam, born in Bangladesh, insists he is only a Sunni Muslim and does not adhere to the faith's more orthodox and militant Wahhabi sect practiced by Osama bin Laden and his ilk. Still, his pro-jihad academic background should raise flags at the Pentagon.
Instead, it's giving him a permanent taxpayer-supported platform from which to convert grunts to Islam. With the Quantico mosque, the Pentagon is facilitating the study of the holy texts the enemy uses, heretically or not, as their manual of war. This is tantamount to the Marines setting up a Mein Kampf reading room during WWII.
The timing of the dedication ceremony is ironic by half. As the deputy secretary of defense and Marine commandant respectfully removed their shoes to enter the mosque and intoned pleasant PC platitudes about being one big happy "family" with Muslims, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced the arrest of 17 Muslim men who had allegedly plotted to explode fertilizer-based bombs at important sites in Canada. Their plans also called for attacking parliament and even beheading the prime minister. Almost half of them had attended the same mosque in Toronto.
Several military officers chose to sit out the Quantico ceremony than hear deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England mouth "salaams" to the Muslims in attendance. They think the mosque is misplaced, and don't trust its imam.
"I have great concern about this young Muslim chaplain," said Lt. Comm. Gary P. Stewart, also a Navy chaplain. "I don't trust him."
The Pentagon's over-the-top gesture is only the latest sign that political correctness is running amok inside the military. Chief chaplains for the Navy, Army and Air Force routinely meet with top leaders from the Islamic Society of North America for PC powwows, even though ISNA is a Saudi-backed group with ties to terrorists. No matter, the Pentagon distributes ISNA literature on Islam and Muslims to help increase troops' "sensitivity" toward Islam.
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You must have missed the part where it said - there are only 24 Muslims on Quantico base. So a Mosque is being built for this tiny group?
So what, exactly, does that look like?
To keep that from happening, they need to change, or be destroyed.
OK, now we're getting somewhere.
FIrepower does not change belief systems. At most, it temporarily compels behavior, with that effect disappearing the instant the threat of force is removed. So that leaves "destruction."
How do you propose to destroy a religion with 1.3 billion adherents?
Yes, a Mosque was built so that Marines, putting their lives on the line every day to provide you your Constitutional rights, might actually get to enjoy freedom of religion like you.
Small group, small Mosque. Besides which, 24 is bigger than a number of small town congregations in the US.
OK, got it. I'll debate with Kolb then. Your question is entirely predicated on mine.
But, as I've foolishly done in the past with mentalities such as yourself, I'll answer your question nonetheless. Warning; you'll dismiss my answer and tell me that it's not an answer before revealing your pansy ways and copping out.
Q: How do you propose to fight a war against all of Islam?
A: Hopefully you don't have to fight all f Islam!! Hopefully it never comes to that. Otherwise it's an enormous mess, especially in a day and age with nukes in the hands of petty tyrants, dictators, and other Islamic leaders.
Have you ever heard the adage, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure?" That's how you "fight" Islam!! By not allowing it to fester within your society! If you do, then you'll have to deal with the expressed attempts at takeover by Islamists, namely muslims, and Islamic rule just as happens like clockwork around the world and has since Islam's inception.
Now, in vain hopes that you were sincere, answer my question. If you doh't, then we're finished discussing this in your so far "I'm going to make my point devoid of any logic or reason and not allow those things to enter the conversation."
Q: Do you see anything problematic with Islam, its tenets, doctrines, etc.?
Again, my time is limited, so if you're serious, then just answer the question and allow me some liberty in this discussion, which will be relatively brief as long as you don't waste time.
I love Free Republic. If Muslims don't enlist in the military, it proves they're "terrorist sympathizers." If they do enlist, it proves they're "infiltrators."
The "thoughts" (chuckle) of the extreme left end of the Bell Curve, posted on the Internet for one and all to marvel at . . .
I saw this Oxen, and think it's one of the dumbest things we've ever done in this country.
Come on. This is clown time for you and the Marines. You know this is a steaming load.
Why would you deny those Marines the same Constitutional right of freedom of religion that they put their lives on the line for everyday to provide to you? Do you consider Marines less then citizens?
Kind of like how Janet Reno didn't allow tghe Branch Davidians to fester within our society?
Check this out. Stuff like this just makes me throw up my hands in despair.
Clown time my arse. Those Marines are just as entitled to freedom of religion as you are. The steaming load is the fact that some people don't think they are deserving of that.
Ultimately, yes. In the end it's them or us.
And some people wonder why most military folks prefer the company of their own kind over some civilians.
Exactly. I wonder if Rumsfeld knows about this and if so, why he permitted the project to go forward.
Not yet...
How do you define victory in a war against all of Islam? What is the desired end state?
We can't nor should we conduct a war against all Islam. However, we are fools to build shrines to encourage it and welcome it into our culture with open arms. In doing so we are increasing the enemy numbers and that will come back to bite us.
You bet he knows about it. The military does try to do it's best to provide for the religious needs of ALL of it's troops.
No time to go into detail (off to work) but cutting off the heads is a good place to start. Islamic leaders need to start dying or disappearing, mysteriously and with plausible deniability. The bomb factories in mosques need to start having "accidents", as do the Iran nuke facilities.
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