Austria: Muslim Soldiers Refuse to Salute Flag

Brussels Journal ^ | 21 March 2006 | Paul Belien

[Sometimes A River]

Austria: Muslim Soldiers Refuse to Salute Flag

From the desk of Paul Belien on Tue, 2006-03-21 13:18

Last week three Muslim conscripts of the Austrian army refused to salute the Austrian flag because this was incompatible with their faith. The Austrian paper Die Presse (18 March) reported that three soldiers of the Maria Theresia barracks, where most of the 1,000 Muslim soldiers serve, refused to salute the flag at a parade and instead turned their backs on it. The soldiers were not disciplined. However, an imam was summoned to issue a fatwa stating that Muslims are allowed to salute the Austrian flag.

Austrian Army officers have complained that Muslim conscripts – about 3,5% of the Austrian armed forces – are unable to do most jobs because they have permission to pray 5 times a day, no matter what job they are performing at the time. Some who attend Friday Prayers stay away for the rest of the day.

Following the incident the Austrian defense minister Günther Platter announced that the army will engage imams as permanent chaplains in order to mediate future conflicts. Die Presse suggests that it would be better to follow the example of the Austrian police and appoint Muslim officers to command Muslim recruits.

Original source: http://diepresse.com/Artikel.aspx?channel=c&ressort=w&id=546232&archiv=false

[RightOnline]

Face it........they're utterly worthless.

[BadAndy]

I suggest 1 year in the stockade and a dishonorable discharge.

[Clock King]

The soldiers were not disciplined.

Face it, Austria. You don't have a real military. It's a social program.

[higgmeister]

Hard to get good Janissary these days!

[Paleo Conservative]

They should be sent home, now, to their muslim homeland.

Along with all their close relatives.

[monday]

"Die Presse suggests that it would be better to follow the example of the Austrian police and appoint Muslim officers to command Muslim recruits."

lol... They think it is a good idea to create a Muslim army within the Austrian army? Perhaps they also want to put the Muslim platoons in charge of the ballistic missiles and chemical warheads? It certainly would simplify their terroristic aspirations. sheesh!!! The world is so full of morons it's surprising it works as well as it does.

[Sometimes A River]

The world truly is full of morons.

hey have a problem with Muslim seperatists...and their answer is to seperate them even more.

The West almost deserves what is coming.

[bayouranger]

NO need for me to comment on this issue of defiance to their infidel government....nope...none.

[em2vn]

They were drafted in.

[Sometimes A River]

So that makes it OK?

Sad to see a measure of sympathy (on this website) for the Muslims who are trying to take over the West.

[em2vn]

A correction of a factual mistake that made your comment baseless.

[Sometimes A River]

read the subsequent posts.

[Liberator]

"Any doubt that a real Muslim cannot be loyal to a non-Islamic government?"

None whatsoever.

Yet the U.S keeps on accepting Muslim immigration as though they will actually contribute to our American legacy and traditions.

[Spruce]

Send these cavemen back to the foresaken cesspool they 'immigrated' from. And their hell-spawn, as well.

[Plutarch]

The Austrians merely need consult their old military manuals to find out how to deal with such a situation.

[em2vn]

You were commenting on posts that hadn't yet taken place? Most foreward looking I must say.

[MortMan]

Turning your back on the flag of your country says a lot more than just a refusal to salute it.

Not for a soldier. Refusal to follow regulations as simple as saluting the flag is a big, red warning of other, potentially deadly, trouble down the road.

[reelfoot]

Kick their butts back to Krapistan so they can salute the crescent moon flag.

[CaptRon]

Not saluting is one thing, but turning their backs!!!???

[Petey139]

I know, Imagine them in a war against Islam, I bet they would become Benedict Arnold's. But perhaps their should be a law that discharges anyone who turn its back on the flag.