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Title: U.S. Marines Build Shrine To Islam
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URL Source: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=22845
Published: Jun 13, 2006
Author: By Paul Sperry
Post Date: 2006-06-13 10:19:49 by Mind_Virus
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U.S. Marines Build Shrine To Islam By Paul Sperry http://FrontPageMagazine.com | June 13, 2006 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. The first principle of war is knowing your enemy and what motivates him. The PC-addled Pentagon seems to have forgotten that rule.
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Sounds like who ever wrote this piece forgets the First Amendment gives the right to Americans to worship as they chose. They also first mention "radical Islam" then do their best to paint everyone as a radical if they belong to that faith. Just because Fred Phelps says he is Christian doesn't mean all Christians are going to go bait people at military funeral. This is the same with Muslims. Most are decent people who lead good lives and care about much the same thing as others in Christianity and other faiths. They are also hypocritical in their blasting of people who adopt this faith and those who promote it. If this is bad, then anyone trying to convert others to their faith - such as Christianity - is guilty of the same alleged outrage too. This is a hate and bait piece that has no logic or rationality to it.
I have to laugh at this stuff. It is all so typical of the US government nowadays to enforce "sensitivity" toward a group or religion while its military is out and about killing thousands of that groups members half a world away. Yep- don't call em ragheads but go and slaughter them wholesale out of view of the "liberal" media. Its actually sickening hypocrisy. And further- this sort of thing enrages the nutter right. "Why- my God, a Mosque on a military base! Spies will be everywhere and my son might convert to Islam!" Their beliefs, in themselves, in their faiths, in their country are so weak that they actually think this is a personal threat to them. They are so ruled by fear and hate that they easy to control- and this "issue" is perfect for that purpose. It creates an siege atmosphere which the nutter "right" is always under.
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..... 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..... 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.... Meanwhile: 1) Navy Chaplain punished for quoting John 3:3 and 3:36 in base chapel 2) Navy Chaplain punished for requesting Kosher meals to feed hungry Jewish Sailor 3) Navy Chaplain punished for protesting 'government-mandated church quotas' 4) NAVY CHAPLAIN PUNISHED FOR PRAYING 'IN JESUS NAME' NAVY HATES the name of JESUS http: //www.exorthodoxforchrist.com/navy_hates_the_name_of_jesus.htm .... "...U.S. NAVY CHAPLAIN Gordon James Klingenschmitt: NAVY COMES OUT OF THE CLOSET, DECIDES TO HATE THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, GOES AFTER CHAPLAIN Faith in Focus - December 05 - Navy Chaplain Gordon Klingenschmitt is facing the end of a 14-year career because his commanding officer wants him to stop using the name of Jesus. He said his commanding officer told a Navy board that, as a chaplain, he overemphasizes his own faith. "He was talking about my sermons and prayers," Klingenschmitt said. "He specifically cited the chaplain school director who told him that I was an immature chaplain because I pray in Jesus' name." A 1998 regulation mandates that Navy Chaplains are not allowed to pray in the name of Jesus [???]. But Klingenschmitt says it's really a battle over First Amendment rights and religious freedom. "You know our soldiers and sailors, they go overseas to promote religious freedom for other people," he said, "but here in America, they can't even hear the diversity of religions from their own chaplains." ...." Details here: U.S. Navy: Stop praying in Jesus’ name! Sunday, January 01, 2006 http://www.takeasta nd.net/columns_detail.asp?colID=24 “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God’s sight to obey [man] rather than God. For we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard.” (Acts 4:19-20)" http://www.bluelett erbible.org/kjv/Act/Act004.html#19 Mat 15:13 — But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. http://www.blueletter bible.org/tsk_b/Mat/15/13.html Rev 18:4 — And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues. http://www.blueletterb ible.org/tsk_b/Rev/18/4.html What would become of all antichrist George Bush's chariots, if all those in the antichrist military who professed to be Christians would obey God rather than man?
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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....
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