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Sunday, 08 November 2009

A study in contrasts: Senator Joseph Lieberman--bravo, Joe!--isn’t afraid to call a spade a spade, whereas the head of the U.S. Army is afraid to do so out of concern that daring to speak the truth will kill off something far more valuable than the lives of American servicemen he is duty-bound to protect:
Sen. Joe Lieberman called the Fort Hood massacre an act of "Islamist extremism" - even as top Army brass warned Sunday against guessing at a motive, fearing backlash against Muslim soldiers.
"There are very, very strong warning signs here that Dr. Hasan had become an Islamist extremist and, therefore, that this was a terrorist act," Lieberman (I-Conn) told Fox News on Sunday.
"If the reports that we're receiving of various statements he made, acts he took are valid, he had turned to Islamist extremism."
 Lieberman, the former Democratic vice presidential candidate, chairs the Senate Homeland Security committee.
Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people and wounding 30 more on Thursday, reportedly expressed moral concerns about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Lieberman's comments were in stark contrast to U.S. Army chief of staff George Casey, who told CNN he's deeply worried "that the speculation could cause something that we don't want to see happen."
"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…
Yeah, that would be a calamity.

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#1  08 November 2009 - 20:58
 
 To my way of thinking there should be no Muslims in the armed forces period.  Just the fact that they are Muslim and believe in the koran disqualifies them from being loyal to anyone or thing other than their so called religion. (I do not consider it a religion) .  The whole point of Islam is the destruction and removal of everything and everyone else.  We do not need them where they can get behind us.

Bob Devine.
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#2  08 November 2009 - 22:34
 
I have no problem with Muslims in the military--as long as they renounce sharia.
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#3  09 November 2009 - 05:30
 
 If they renounce sharia they are not muslims.  Sharia is a mainstay of the Islamic cult.

Bob Devine.
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#4  09 November 2009 - 10:59
 
No, there are "secular" Muslims like Tarek Fatah and the Muslim Canadian Congress--Muslims who do not care to live under an Islamic political system ruled by Islamic law.  It's only the "radical" (hate that word) Muslims who consider them un-Islamic.
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