Saturday, August 28, 2010
Not good. First, he's an idiot. Second, this can hardly make other Muslim soldiers feel comfortable:
...Naser Abdo said when he joined the Army more than a year ago, he initially felt he could be a soldier and a Muslim at the same time. But he said he now believes Islamic standards would prohibit his service in the U.S. Army in any war.
According to documents provided to The Associated Press, Abdo cited Islamic scholars and verses from the Quran as reasons for his decision to ask for separation from the Army.
"I realized through further reflection that God did not give legitimacy to the war in Afghanistan, Iraq or any war the U.S. Army would conceivably participate in," he wrote.
A recommendation from the commander of his battalion's rear detachment based at Fort Campbell said if Abdo deployed to a combat zone, he could jeopardize the lives of fellow soldiers as well as his own because of his convictions as a conscientious objector...
And then of course there's this fool, Zachari Klawonn, appearing in uniform, on Al Jazeera to denounce the US Military and its "Islamophobia": Al-Jazeera TV Program Titled 'The Right In America Declared War On Islam Inside and Outside America' Interviews Muslim U.S. Soldier From Fort Hood on Planned Islamic Center Near Ground Zero, Who Says: 'Islamophobia Pervades U.S. Military'; 'The Training We Get and the Information That We Are Subject To - Constitute Propaganda Against Islam'
I bet his unit is breathing a sigh of relief. It has to be Hell keeping one eye on the Muslim in your unit in case he goes Jihad on your ass...watching your back all the time...while trying to execute orders and keep an eye on the enemy.