Islam Inherently Dangerous to West
Agape Press reports, " 'An expert on Islam says incidents such as the recent arrest of Muslim chaplain James Yee serve as reminders of the real nature of that religion and the danger it poses. Robert Spencer of the Heritage Foundation says westerners can peacefully coexist only with Muslims who truly, thoroughly, explicitly and honestly renounce jihad ideology in all the forms in which it appears in Islamic law as a mandate for violence against non-Muslims.' But Spencer says that obviously does not happen often, if at all, so any Muslim is a potential threat. He believes that there is always the possibility that some followers of Islam will take up jihad as a rallying cry and use the Koran and Islamic tradition to recruit others for strikes against the West on that basis. The incident with Chaplain Yee is the latest episode involving Muslims in the military, but many critics of Islam fear it will not be the last. Michael Waller, a researcher at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, says the arrest of Yee -- as well as that of an Arabic translator who also worked with terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay -- should be sounding alarms at the Pentagon. The Center's Michael Waller believes that, while some Muslims in the U.S. armed forces may be assets in the war on terrorism, others may be undercover agents for al Qaida. Waller wonders how the Pentagon ever assigned Yee, who studied Islam in Syria, to the most 'highly classified base on Earth.' And New York Senator Charles Schumer is also criticizing the Pentagon for not looking into the Islamic organization that certified Yee as a chaplaincy candidate." :: Submitted for your wars and rumors of war (Matthew 24:6) files.