US had been warned about loyalties of Muslim soldiers in Army

Revelations that a Muslim army officer is responsible for today's Fort Hood army base massacre have a prequel: warnings several years ago that radical Islam was undermining the loyalties of American soldiers through an evangelisation programme.

Investigate magazine reported a little on this in March 2007 as part of a wider investigation into extremist preachers coming to New Zealand at the invitation of our Muslim community:

One spin-off from Bilal Philips’ efforts in 1991 however was that the Pentagon suddenly had to find Muslim chaplains to minister to its freshly converted Islamic US soldiers. “One architect of this initiative was Abdurahman Alamoudi, who was indicted Oct. 23 on money-laundering charges for allegedly taking hundreds of thousands of dollars from Libya, which is designated by U.S. officials as a state sponsor of terrorism,” reported the Post. An extra irony is that Alamoudi was an election campaign donor to both Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Hillary Clinton, evincing a “bob each way” mentality.

The article goes on to say that the Pentagon is now “worried” about the loyalties of its Islamic troops.

“Some military officials believe that the al Qa’ida terrorist network is trying to recruit Muslim members of the U.S. armed services and contractors who work with them. Other officers have expressed fears that some Muslim soldiers, sailors and airmen might one day decline to take up arms against fellow Muslims.”

A news article listed on Wikipedia and sourced to Intelwire directly links Bilal Philips to known terrorists.

“An al Qa’ida operative sought to recruit US veterans as paramilitary trainers and combat volunteers in 1992 and 1993, at the explicit direction of a cleric [Philips] who converted thousands of Gulf War soldiers to Islam on behalf of the Saudi government,” begins the report.

The problem for the US is that Islam (the word means "submission to Allah") requires complete allegiance firstly to Islam, and only after that to one's country, and only insofar as loyalty to a country does not conflict with loyalty to Allah.

While Christianity has a similar view of the pecking order, Islam is a militant religion where the Qu'ran justifies the use of deadly force against those who oppose it, whereas Christians were explicitly instructed by Christ to "turn the other cheek" if persecuted by the State because of their faith.

Comments

[Medusa]

For heavens sakes, get it right before you blab on, the guy is NOT a convert, he is a muslim born and bred! I thought you checked the veracity of your info before posting it?

[Ian Wishart]

Thanks Medusa, had been away working on another story and not updated this eyond the initial reports. Done now.