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October 23, 2006
West Point Caves To Muslims
Listening to Imam Asadullah speak Thursday during the dedication of a
new Muslim prayer space at West Point.
West Point opens Islamic worship space as Muslim cadets increase
Newsday
WEST POINT, N.Y. (AP)
Muslims at the U.S. Military Academy numbered just two in 2001. This year, there are 32.
Now West Point has opened its first space dedicated to Muslims, a worship hall complete with a pulpit facing Mecca. The space officially opened Thursday.
"I knew the Army had a policy of religious tolerance, but I didn't know it was to this extent," said first-year Cadet Ahmed Moomin, 20, from the Maldives.
Until now, Friday prayers were held in an increasingly crowded first-floor office, said Imam Asadullah, the academy's Muslim cleric. The number of Muslim cadets jumped by 10 from last year.
The new hall is large enough for dozens of followers, he said.
West Point's Muslim leaders approached administrators last year for help.
"We live in a world where everyone is looking at the United States saying, 'You're anti-Islam.' But here at West Point, that's not what we do," West Point Chaplain Col. John Cook said.
Asadullah said the new hall is a strategic move.
"We have cadets here who are going to be the future of tomorrow," he said. "If we treat them differently from other cadets or other faiths, that will be a cause for future confrontation."
Wild Thing's comment......
All the fine soldiers who graduated at West Point are rolling over in their graves. I would not want to be in a foxhole with any of these guys when the lead started flying. Well it cannot be more diverse than training tomorrow's jihadists.
I have a very bad feeling about this, is this infiltration?? OK so shall we take a minute to imagine one of these Muslim cadets flying fully armed B52s into buildings.
So now, West Point is commanded by politically correct damn fools!!
I am sure that if muslim prayer time arrives during a parade, it will be halted and as non-muslims stand at parade rest, the muslim Cadets will face Mecca with their nose to the ground and their ass in the air as West Point comes to a stand still.
By the time our leaders wake up and realize that Islamites are the problem, they will be in command of our military forces.
Remember the soldier that threw hand grenades into a tent where his superior officers were gathered, during the liberation of Kuwait, an American soldier of the Islamite persuasion!!
And remember THIS story?
Muslim West Point graduate busted for espionage
Captain John Yee, a 1990 graduate of West Point and one of the U.S. Army's Muslim chaplains, has been arrested and is being held in the Naval Consolidated Brig in Charleston, S.C., on charges of sedition, espionage, aiding the enemy, spying and failing to obey a general order.Military officials yesterday confirmed that a Muslim chaplain who was counseling al-Qaida prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, naval base has been detained since Sept. 10 after being found in possession of classified documents.
Capt. Yee served as "Muslim adviser to the commander of the joint task force at Guantanamo" since reporting there in November, said Capt. Thomas Crosson of the Southern Command in Miami, which oversees the mission at Guantanamo.
He grew up in New Jersey as a Lutheran, but learned enough about Islam while attending the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., that he decided to convert. He later became one of the 17 Muslim chaplains in the U.S. armed forces.
He became interested in Islam while a student and later spent four years studying Arabic and Islam in Damascus, Syria. He serves with the 29th Signal Battalion at Fort Lewis, Wash.
Capt. Yee, 35, a 1990 graduate of West Point, converted to Islam in 1991 and left the Army after completing airborne school at Fort Knox, Ky.
The suspect then went to Damascus to teach English and study Islam. After becoming a Muslim clergyman, he rejoined the Army as a chaplain.
Questions?????
* Why was Yee allowed to leave the Army after airborne training, rather than after completing his five years of obligatory service after receiving $250,000 worth of training at West Point?
* And after spending time studying Islam in Damascus – the site of 12 Muslim terrorist headquarters – why on earth did the U.S. Army Chaplains Corps accept him back into the Army?
Our troops deserve a hell of a lot better than to have to watch their backs from a enemy embedded into their ranks by the law of politically correct.
They are going to take us from within without firing a friggin shot. We need to get real and mean business.......THEY DO!!!!!!!!
Posted by Wild Thing at October 23, 2006 12:55 AM
Comments
The Marines did the same thing, built a moslem mosque or several at bases. Unless we get hard-core leadership darn quick, I would say that a national pool ought to be started, guessing when islam will actually take over America.
Hate to say it, but our saving grace might be several more horrendous attacks on us in America. Maybe they have figured out how angry and retaliatory we become and the moslems have just decided to quietly infiltrate us in massive numbers because our "leaders" will do NOTHING to stop it.
Posted by: TomR at October 23, 2006 03:52 AM
I wonder what this new 'worship' hall will be called. East Point? It could be an opportunity though. If we were smart, we could equip it with the finest surveillance technology available and monitor every fart emitted within it's walls.
Billy
Posted by: Bily at October 23, 2006 06:53 AM
It takes a Congressional appointment to get into West Point. The Army is only doing what it was ordered to do. What I'm wondering is who are the Congressmen who nominated the Muslim cadets.
Posted by: BobF at October 23, 2006 07:37 AM
WT,
Great piece. The military started down the path to hell when they embedded the enemy with combat units.
www.onebigdog.net/2006/10/21/in-bed-with-the-enemy
Posted by: Big Dog at October 23, 2006 10:15 AM
I'm with BobF. I'd like to know who their sponsors were.
Posted by: raz0r at October 23, 2006 10:58 AM
"OK so shall we take a minute to imagine one of these Muslim cadets flying fully armed B52s into buildings."
Eeek! Has this happened at Colorado Springs too (already)? USAF Academy alumni, fill us in.... (shudder)
Posted by: Nick Byram at October 23, 2006 11:26 AM
One of my sons was on a TDY training mission to WEst Point a while back. It's one man's opinion, but the cadet class is barely up the standards of the regular Army.
As for religious tolerance, what happened at VMI..I think it was VMI...is that the institution has been cleansed of religious practices by the usual suspects.
West Point will ultimately have two choices. Take Chapel and other relgious observances out entirely, or allow Muslims space and time for their services.
As for Yee, he was a problem on several levels. I have it on good authority that he was a lousy officer in the first place, and clearly not up to the disciplinary or loyalty standards expected of him...and even enlisted men could see it.
The Army, like lots of bureacracies will protect its own and cave to political pressures. It's an eternal problem.
Posted by: Rhod at October 23, 2006 01:24 PM
Tom, I agree, it just might take more attacks for the slow to learn realize what we are up against and that this is not to be taken so lightly. PC be hanged or it will get us dead as door knobs. augh!
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 23, 2006 05:20 PM
Billy, hahaha with all their farts I would not want to go near even the video.
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 23, 2006 05:21 PM
Bob, I never knew that, very interesting.
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 23, 2006 05:22 PM
Big Dog, thank you and thanks for the link too.
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 23, 2006 05:23 PM
Nick Byram, I don't know but it could if it hasn't yet. Very scary stuff to be sure.
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 23, 2006 05:25 PM
Rhod, thank you for sharing about Yee. I thkn your right, one day they will have to make the decision you wrote about. I hope they make the right choice.
Our troops have enough to worry about then to be concerned with the man on the inside. yikes!
Posted by: Wild Thing at October 23, 2006 05:28 PM
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh MY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: beth at October 28, 2006 11:41 PM
