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Raymond Ibrahim: The Pentagon’s Bow to Islamic Extremism

Feb 13, 2014 8:15 am By Raymond Ibrahim

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“Caving to pressure from Muslim groups, the Pentagon has relaxed uniform rules to allow Islamic beards, turbans and hijabs. It’s a major win for political correctness and a big loss for military unit cohesion,” said a recent article.

This new relaxation of rules for Muslims comes at a time when the FBI is tracking more than 100 suspected jihadi-infiltrators of the U.S. military.  Just last month, Craig Benedict Baxam, a former Army soldier and convert to Islam, was sentenced to seven years in prison due to his al-Qaeda/jihadi activities.   Also last month, Mozaffar Khazaee, an Iranian-American working for the Defense Department, was arrested for sending secret documents to America’s enemy, Iran.

According to a Pentagon spokesperson, the new religious accommodations—to allow Islamic beards, turbans, and hijabs—which took effect very recently, would “reduce both the instances and perception of discrimination among those whose religious expressions are less familiar to the command.”

The report concludes that, “Making special accommodations for Islam will only attract more Muslims into the military at a time when two recent terror cases highlight the ongoing danger of Muslims in uniform.”

But it’s worse than that; for not only will it attract “more Muslims,” it will attract precisely the wrongkinds of Muslims, AKA, “Islamists,” “radicals,” etc.

This is easily demonstrated by connecting the dots and understanding that Muslims who adhere to visible, non-problematic aspects of Islam—growing beards and donning hijabs—often indicate their adherence to non-visible, problematic aspects of Islam.

Consider it this way: Why do some Muslim men wear the prescribed beard and why do some Muslim women wear the prescribed hijab? Most Muslims would say they do so because Islam’s prophet Muhammad commanded them to (whether via the Koran or Hadith).

Regarding the Muslim beard, Muhammad wanted his followers to look different from “infidels,” namely Christians and Jews, so he ordered his followers to “trim closely the moustache and grow the beard.” Accordingly, all Sunni schools of law maintain that it is forbidden—a “major sin”—for men to shave their beards (unless, of course, it is part of a stratagem against the infidel, in which case it is permissible).

The question begs itself: If such Muslims meticulously follow the minor, “outer” things of Islam simply because their prophet made some utterances concerning them in the Hadith, logically speaking, does that not indicate that they also follow, or at the very least accept as legitimate, the major, “inner” themes Muhammad constantly emphasized in both the Koran and Hadith—such as enmity for and deceit of the infidel, and, when capable, perpetual jihad?.. Keep reading

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  1. Semeru says

    Feb 13, 2014 at 9:22 am

    testing

  2. Stephen David says

    Feb 13, 2014 at 10:31 am

    Great! So does that mean the military now allows Amish to wear traditional Amish dress — including plain dark clothes, hats and scarves, and are they allowed then to ride horse-drawn tanks and humvees?

    And, similarly, are Jewish Hassidim allowed to grow beards and sidelocks (payot) and wear dark blue/black clothes and hats, including shtreimel on Shabat?

    There are many religious groups that have their own distinctive customs regarding grooming and dress. The military either needs to bar/exempt them from serving, based on religious reasons (incompatibility with military service) or require them to conform to military standards.

    There should be no exemptions for special groups. As always, its only Islam that gets the exemption. And it is Islam that is the ideology of the enemy.

    • Mohammad says

      Feb 13, 2014 at 3:06 pm

      I am a practicing member of the church of the spaghetti monster, I demand to wear my plastic skull cap!

  3. JessieJames says

    Feb 13, 2014 at 11:04 am

    The infidelity of America to its own Constitution and the moral principals upon which this once great nation was founded by the deluded pawns which this country has chosen to be the voice of leaders has slowly and irrevocably eroded the foundation of our existence like a malicious cancer. We are a dying nation, doomed without hope, unless………………

    Witness the great “dumbing down” of America. How stupid can one get? Thank you obama for your direct insult to our military. How I pity our young men and women in “uniform” today. What a tragedy they face. Instead of your enemy being in front of you now he is beside you as well. Ridiculous and idiotic of our government to allow muslims into our military but allow Islamic beards, turbans and hijabs as well. While other countries like China, Thailand, etc. are just now beginning to wage war against “islam” we are doing the smart thing and allowing “islam” into our military. I challenge anyone to deny the fact that obama can out do himself on his last act of stupidity. How frightening and dangerous is our present administration? Just how far down the gutter is he going to take this country before someone says “STOP”? Enough with the madness of shooting ones foot off because of an in-grown toenail.

    • pongidae rex says

      Feb 13, 2014 at 4:32 pm

      Clinton was worse. He initiated a major security stand-down at the nation’s nuclear weapons laboratory to facilitate ‘diversity’ and a naturalized Chinese walked out with all our detailed nuclear warhead designs. If we get nuked by China it will be with American designed warheads. Probably plenty Muslims in the weapons labs now. Political correctness is another word for national suicide.

  4. Truth says

    Feb 13, 2014 at 11:26 am

    This stinks of Obama and Holder. Hopefully the US Senate will become Republican controlled in November.

  5. Salah says

    Feb 13, 2014 at 11:27 am

    “..the Pentagon has relaxed uniform rules to allow Islamic beards, ..”

    Compare…

    Egypt:
    “Minister of Interior General Mohamed Ibrahim rejected the beard growing requests and stressed that no one will be allowed to violate the long established traditions of police officers’ appearance.”

    http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/02/20/195921.html

  6. pongidae rex says

    Feb 13, 2014 at 4:24 pm

    This is the equivalent of the US military permitting Nazi armbands and rising sun headbands among its soldiers in WWII. Of course the USA has been so dumbed down most young Americans don’t even know what WWII is.

    • dumbledoresarmy says

      Feb 14, 2014 at 10:08 pm

      *That* is the real issue.

      The insignia of *other* faiths are not the functional equivalent of enemy uniform; but the insignia of Islam – the beard, the Slave Rag, whatever – *are*. They are the badges of membership in the Allah Gang, the Ummah or Mohammedan Mob, the de facto Empire of Islam, which is busy waging war upon everyone else on earth. A man in the US army who wears a Muslim beard

      And by extension, when Muslims build a mosque or an “Islamic school” it is *not* the same thing as when people of other faiths build a place of worship or establish a school for their kids.

      Once people *get* this distinction, then it will be possible, with perfect consistency, for a local council to refuse permission for the building of a mosque or Islamic school, whilst simultaneously granting permission for a Jewish or Catholic school or for a new church, synagogue, Hindu temple or Buddhist shrine to be built in the neighbourhood.

      And likewise, it will be possible to ban the wearing (in whatever Infidel context, school, army, etc) of hijab and other outward membership badges of the Mohammedan Mob, without thinking that one must also forbid the display/ wearing of religious insignia by persons of other – non-Islamic – belief systems.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Feb 14, 2014 at 10:10 pm

        Oops.

        Unfinished sentence in the above.

        “A man in the US army who wears a Muslim beard” should have read “A man in the US army who wears a Muslim beard is proclaiming his allegiance to the Empire of Islam”.

  7. Wellington says

    Feb 13, 2014 at 6:17 pm

    Sartorial matters here are indicative of a major problem which the elites of America refuse to address, to wit, that Islam and the American Constitution cannot be reconciled, especially the First and Fourteenth Amendments to this constitution.

    I defy anyone to prove me wrong on this point. ANYONE. I assert unequivocally that it can’t be done.

  8. gungadin says

    Feb 14, 2014 at 12:12 pm

    As a proud veteran of the armed services of this once great country, I just want to PUKE !!! What’s with our “representatives” in Congress and the Senate? It’s called a UNIFORM because everyone dresses in the same manner — NO exceptions !!! There should be NO beards, turbans or any deviations.

    Our Congress sits on its hands and says nothing and does even less if that’s at all possible. I’m a senior citizen well into my 70’s. I feel badly for my grandkids; this is NOT the country that I grew up in way back in the 40’s -50’s….and we are MUCH poorer for it.

  9. Dick Bulova says

    Feb 23, 2014 at 6:55 pm

    Back around 1960 or so, the US Army allowed Sikhs to wear their turbans with their uniforms. Beards were not allowed though as it would prevent a good gas mask seal if needed. Wonder how that policy got changed?

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