In the wake of the Ft. Hood shooting last week and rampant speculation surrounding alleged shooter Nidal Malik Hasan’s motives, the American Family Association has called for a ban on Muslims in the military. Mother Jones reports that the conservative Christian group has posted an article on its website by the group’s Director of Issues Analysis, Bryan Fischer, who argues that the tragedy at Ft. Hood is the sign to start the ban. “This is not Islamophobia, it is Islamo-realism,” Fischer says.
Under the headline, “No More Muslims in the U.S. Military,” he writes:
It it is time, I suggest, to stop the practice of allowing Muslims to serve in the U.S. military. The reason is simple: the more devout a Muslim is, the more of a threat he is to national security. Devout Muslims, who accept the teachings of the Prophet as divinely inspired, believe it is their duty to kill infidels. Yesterday’s massacre is living proof. And yesterday’s incident is not the first fragging incident involving a Muslim taking out his fellow U.S. soldiers.
Of course, most U.S. Muslims don’t shoot up their fellow soldiers. Fine. As soon as Muslims give us a foolproof way to identify their jihadis from their moderates, we’ll go back to allowing them to serve. You tell us who the ones are that we have to worry about, prove you’re right, and Muslims can once again serve. Until that day comes, we simply cannot afford the risk. You invent a jihadi-detector that works every time it’s used, and we’ll welcome you back with open arms.
This is not Islamophobia, it is Islamo-realism.
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The barbarians are no longer at the gate. They’re inside the fort, and it’s time for the insanity to stop.
Read Fischer’s whole piece here.
Joining the American Family Association in their call is Dave Gaubatz, author of Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that’s Conspiring to Islamize America. Gaubatz is openly calling for a “backlash” against Muslims.
Here’s Gaubatz:
Now is the time for a professional and legal backlash against the Muslim community and their leaders. Muslims know what materials are being taught in their mosques and they know many of the materials instruct young Muslims to kill innocent people who do not adhere to Sharia law.
Justin Elliott at TPMmuckraker reports that Gaubatz’s comments “aren’t particularly surprising, coming from a man who has called President Obama ‘Muslim’ and questioned the loyalty of the two Muslim members of Congress.” Over at Muckraker, Justin has reported extensively on the witch hunt some Republican members of Congress have been on, inspired by Muslim Mafia.
The explicit calls for the military ban on and backlash against Muslims are exactly the kind of comments the Army chief of staff addressed in a TV interview yesterday. General George Casey, Jr., said he’s worried the Ft. Hood incident and the discussion surrounding it could “cause a backlash against some of our Muslim soldiers.”
“It would be a shame — as great a tragedy as this was — it would be a shame if our diversity became a casualty as well,” Casey said.
