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The
Pentagon's Bow to Islamic Extremism
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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
report.
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 wrong kinds of
Muslims, AKA, "Islamists," "radicals," etc.
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Army
Chaplain (Maj.) Ibraheem Raheem leads Muslim soldiers in prayers Aug.
29, 2008, at Camp Victory, Iraq. Maj. Raheem is not bearded. (U.S. Army
photo)
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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?
Even in the Islamic world this connection between visible indicators
of Islamic piety and jihadi tendencies are well known. Back in 2011, when
Islamists were dominating Egypt's politics, secularist talk show host Amr
Adib of Cairo
Today mocked the then calls for a "million man beard" march
with his trademark sarcasm: "This is a great endeavor! After all, a
man with a beard can never be a thug, can never rape a woman in the
street, can never set a church on fire, can never fight and quarrel, can
never steal, and can never be dishonest!"
His sarcasm was not missed on his Egyptian viewership which knew quite
well that it is precisely those Muslims who most closely follow the
minutia of Muhammad—for example, by growing a beard—that are most prone
to violence, deceit, and anti-infidel sentiments, all of which were also
advocated by Islam's prophet.
Speaking more seriously, Adib had added that this issue is not about
growing a beard, but rather, "once you grow your beard, you give
proof of your commitment and fealty to everything in Islam."
Similarly, after Egypt's June 30 Revolution ousted the Muslim
Brotherhood, "overt
signs of piety [beards and hijabs] have become all it takes to
attract suspicion from security forces at Cairo checkpoints and
vigilantes looking to attack Islamists." Clubs and restaurants banned
entrance to those wearing precisely these two "overt signs of
piety."
While Egyptians instinctively understand how fealty to the Muslim
beard evinces fealty, or at least acceptance, to all those other
problematic things Muhammad commanded, even in fuzzy Western op-eds, the
connection sometimes peeks out. Consider the following excerpt from a New
York Times piece titled "Behold the Mighty Beard, a Badge of
Piety and Religious Belonging":
[A]ll over the Muslim world, the full beard has come to connote piety
and spiritual fervor…. Of course, the beard is only a sign of
righteousness. It is no guarantor, as Mr. Zulfiqar [a Muslim interviewee]
reminds us: "I recall one gentleman who came back from a trip to
Pakistan and remarked to me, 'I learned one thing: the longer the
beard, the bigger the crook.' His anticipation was people with big beards
would be really honest, but he kept meeting people lying to him."
The italicized portion speaks for itself. Whereas the Muslim beard
ostensibly represents religious piety, some people, mostly Westerners,
are shocked to find that those who wear it are often "crooks"
and "liars."
In Islam, however, outer signs of religiosity on the one hand, and
corruption and deceit on the other, are quite compatible. After all, the
same source—Islam's prophet Muhammad, as recorded in the Hadith—that
tells Muslims to grow a beard also advocates
deception, the plundering of infidels, the keeping
of sex slaves, adult
"breast feeding," and all sorts of other practices
antithetical to Western notions of piety if not decency.
Incidentally, it's the same with the hijab, or cloak that some Muslim
women wear, also on Muhammad's command. One reformed Islamic jihadi from
Egypt accurately
observes that "the proliferation of the hijab is strongly
correlated with increased terrorism…. Terrorism became much more frequent
in such societies as Indonesia, Egypt, Algeria, and the U.K. after
the hijab became prevalent among Muslim women living in those
communities."
And so, at a time when the U.S. should at the very least be wary of
those who openly wear their Islamic radicalism around their face and
head—beards for males, hijabs for females—the U.S. Pentagon (of all
places) is embracing them in "celebration of multiculturalism."
Wear loyalty to the U.S. is most needed, the Pentagon embraces those who
show that their loyalty is elsewhere (among other things, the beard and
hijab are meant to separate "pure believers" from "impure
infidels").
Of course, none of this is surprising considering that the Pentagon
also considers Evangelical Christians and Catholics as "extremists"
on a par with al-Qaeda.
Raymond Ibrahim, author of Crucified Again:
Exposing Islam's New War on Christians (Regnery, April, 2013) is a
Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an Associate Fellow
at the Middle East Forum.
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