I'm not sure what Obama's status has to do with anything, but there's some pretty decent evidence that your more radical jihadist brethren are very busy infiltrating the US military. Nidal Hasan comes to mind immediately, but just as I would scoff at someone bringing up Timothy McVeigh as an example of a "Christian terrorist," I think it's prudent to look at the wider picture. Before I do though, I'd like to know if we agree that Hasan is indeed a jihadist? I mean, if you agree with Obama that he committed nothing more than "work-place violence," then we'd be wasting our time trying to discuss this rationally.
Here, Allen West talks about a list that was found in VA documenting 100 or more jihadists that are already in the military. It's the first segment, maybe a minute and a half or so.
The accusation is hardly far-fetched, or limited to only being leveled at muslims. I can remember living in LA and local military bases taking note of gang-bangers joining in droves during Desert Storm, because they wanted the tactical training to bring back and implement on the streets of South Central. It would certainly make sense that jihadis would infiltrate our military for a number of reasons, not the least of which would be to hurt military members from inside like Hasan did, but also to gather intelligence on tactics, weapons systems, communication systems and codes, whatever, and send it back to their handlers in Iraq or Afghanistan or wherever the next terrorist attack is being planned from.
In short, you're right that some muslims have served honorably, but you're, again, ignoring the rest of the story.
Indeed. And that's really what it's all about, isn't it? 2/3 of the world's population isn't enough, right? Heck, 99.9% wouldn't be enough. Your holy book and hadiths instruct you to either convert, enslave, or kill all infidels. I don't keep the passages at my fingertips, but I can certainly find them to document that you are so-instructed. Whether or not you, individually, follow such instruction is not the issue; it's that with 2/3 of the world's population practicing your faith, it only takes a small percentage of those who do to create the fear, distrust, anger, maybe even hate, that you were responding to with this post.
Now, we Christians are also instructed to witness and bring the unbelievers to Jesus. It's hardly comparable though. Just as we all had, and continue to maintain, free will to believe or not, we convince unbelievers through sharing our joy, contentment, our faith in Heaven, not for reward, like a gaggle of virgins or what have you, but for Heaven's own sake, to spend peaceful and loving eternity with our Father and Savior. We don't get there by coercing or threatening unbelievers with "smiting" their necks if they don't join us, we love them in the hope that Christ's love will rub off on them and they will exercise their free will just as all of us did at some point, and just believe to earn their way into Heaven.
Tsk tsk. Stereotyping against being stereotyped. There's a strategy for peace and understanding, eh?
I don't think you know what a deist is.
I get this. It's actually exactly what my avatar is meant to say. People have died at the hands of muslims for simply drawing images like my avatar, in fact, the artist who drew that one was threatened and was in hiding for years because he knew enough to take thhreat seriously. I keep it to say to any muslims who might see it, let's rock if it means that much to you. The fact that you have refrained from even mentioning it, and kept a pretty civil tone with me in spite of it, is at least an indication that you're not one of the more unreasonable among your faithful contemporaries. But then, Nidal Hasan served and bamboozled his co. -workers and commanders into thinking he was one of the "good ones" for well over a decade before implementing his jihadist extremism, so one just never knows these days.
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