Pentagon Advisor Doubts Wisdom of U.S. Military's Recruiting Muslims

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Pentagon Advisor Doubts Wisdom of U.S. Military's Recruiting Muslims

by Chad Groening
January 4, 2007

(AgapePress) - - Retired Lieutenant Colonel Bob Maginnis, a Pentagon advisor and national defense expert, believes U.S. military officials are making a radical mistake by trying to make America's armed services more attractive to Muslims.

The Pentagon has lately gone out of its way to attract Muslims into the U.S. military, citing the need for officers and troops who can speak Arabic and understand Islamic culture. And recently, Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England said that Muslims and the Islamic religion are totally compatible with Western values.

However, Maginnis disagrees with that assessment. In fact, he contends, "Someone who's an adherent to the teaching of the Koran and then abides by what it says, that person -- as far as I can understand -- is incompatible with Western culture."

The retired Army officer says U.S. military leaders may well agree with his concerns, but they will not go against the policy of the Bush administration or even their commander-in-chief himself. "The President says Islam is a respectable faith, that it's a great faith," Maginnis notes. "If President Bush says there is not a problem, then you can't expect that his subordinates are going to come out with a contrary view."

Obviously, the lieutenant colonel observes, people in the military who live in Muslim-dominated cultures and "who deal with these issues day to day can, in the privacy of their conversations, say the types of things that I've expressed." But even if these military personnel believe, based on their experience of Islam, that its true adherents are inherently anti-Western, he asserts, "they can't publicly state that."

Maginnis feels the Pentagon's policy toward Islam is naïve, at best. And judging by what has happened in Western Europe and other parts of the world where Muslim ideology has taken hold, he believes the U.S. military's ongoing effort to recruit Muslims will prove to be a radical mistake.
Chad Groening, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.

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[Soldier4Christ]

I have to agree completely with Lieutenant Colonel Bob Maginnis. The U.S. Military does not make very many consessions for people of other nationalities or religions. Why should they do so for muslims? In fact they encourage assimilation of various nationalities and religions into one yet with islam they are already making a separate place for them to worship and pray instead of using the already set aside chapels that have traditionally been used by all religions not just Christian.

Make the Military more attractive to muslims and we will soon have more incidents like the ones that we have already seen where a muslim threw a hand grenade into a tent of sleeping U.S. Soldiers.

[nChrist]

Pastor Roger,

Brother, I thought about that same incident while reading this article, but I must say that I also considered worse consequences involving secrets, tactics, and other insider related nightmares. It isn't very well publicized, but the military already has a problem of street gang members entering the armed forces for reasons other than serving their country. I'm usually a fairly optimistic person, but I expect rough times ahead. Our wimpy politicians will need to grow some backbones if there is any hope of dealing with what is to come. If it's Bible prophecy unfolding for the end of this age, it will unfold according to GOD'S plans and timing.