Concern For 'Backlash' Against US Muslim Soldiers

"The speculation could heighten the backlash. . . What happened at Fort Hood is a tragedy and I believe it would be a greater tragedy if diversity became a casualty here." ~General George Casey, Jr.; US Army Chief of Staff "I mean does every soldier who shows discontent with the war and every soldier that has had a bad performance report - what are ...

[John M]

I truly do not see a big backlash against Muslims within the military. What I do expect is force fed sensitivity training to encourage everyone to get along.
What I hope DOD would do is review military personnel policy to determine if Muslims should be deployed against a Muslim enemy.

[Az Zaqqum]

I agree with you, John.

I kinda think some of these muslim leaders are hoping there will be a backlash so they can re-claim the victim card.

Notice that not one muslim group protested against the bad muslim? How quick are they to protest against a bad kafur?

[multi kultural]

Muslim blind their eye about all bad thing other Muslim do. But they open their eye, when other Muslim do good thing.

Example: Muhammad Yunnus developed the concept of microcredit. These loans are given to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans. And he make profit from his loan practice and help the poor at the same time. He got noble for that.

Because he is Muslim. Muslim people saz, "If American bank practice follow shariah banking from Muhammad Yunnus.America never got hit by housing crisis". Those statement are very close to correct.

But what they didn't know Muhammad Yunnus not a good Muslim. Are microcredit from Shariah idea? That is still a question. But Muslim already claim, "Micro finance were inspire by Islam".

[multi kultural]

Maybe you guy wonder, why i call Muhammad Yunnus as very bad Muslim. Because he helped poor entrepreneurs Christian to finance their business. He never allocate his money for terrorist and he is good friend with people from mother Therese foundation.

Yes! World need more banker follow his footstep. He is genius and good person. But.... is he good Muslim? I don't think so.

But Muslim people already claim his achievement as Muslim achievement. Do you found the hypocrisy of Muslim?

[Ye Olde Fart]

John M wrote:

I truly do not see a big backlash against Muslims within the military. What I do expect is force fed sensitivity training to encourage everyone to get along.
What I hope DOD would do is review military personnel policy to determine if Muslims should be deployed against a Muslim enemy.

What would have happened in WW2 if soldiers who were Christians couldn't fight against Germans who were Christians?
Your suggestion doesn't make sense. The danger in all this is that some wingnuts will insist that we reopen the concentration camps we had here in Arizona to hold Japanese-Americans citizens in order to put Muslims in them. It was nuts then and would be nuts now.

[Truth2Power]

There is no greater obstacle to changing the hearts and minds of those who inevitably distrust either the American way, including its politics, or - more specifically - its mission than the lack of correction and accountability that permeates both our military and our government. Meanwhile, it is far easier to SAY we are a post racial democracy than it is to admit the system is so, inherently, flawed that we've yet to manage change even amid the hearts and minds of people like Keith Bardwell, a white American justice in a Louisiana parish who refused to perform his duties and marry a bi-racial couple, because - as he explained - he feared for the future of their children. Here in America? So, how then do we convince the world, today, that it has a stake in the security of a country that is a threat to the future of its own children? If we are to believe this justice, then, what does that say about the contrast between the propaganda of progress and the reality of everyday Americans and what they must, silently, endure in their daily lives? Moreover, what does that say about democracy? Clearly, there is some disincentive to “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” and if this country is unable to manage the marriage of two consenting adults, then, how can it possibly manage change for the Middle East, it’s people, and their descendants, here in America? Certainly, there are laws of equal protection – here in America - that are suppose to regulate entities within the United States government ; especially, men of such high regard as Bardwell who, still – to this day - so confidently perceive they are, somehow, supported in both the refusal of what should be a very basic right and the ensuing excuse that he, somehow, worried himself over the future of children born to Americans. The fact is, any attempt to educate, change, and otherwise appeal to hearts and minds must, always, start at home. In the words of Michael Jackson, let’s start with a look at “the man in the mirror.” At this point, the reflection has all the indications of a man intent at war - I know, personally, what that's like (coming under attack, myself, by peers and others associated with the military) and I am not surprised to hear of shots fired back, leaving many innocent casualties of war to pay the price; on the other hand, we could always call an end to the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, concluding with one last operation, unlike Desert Storm, this one: Mission Impossible.

[John M]

Ye Olde Fart wrote:

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What would have happened in WW2 if soldiers who were Christians couldn't fight against Germans who were Christians?
Your suggestion doesn't make sense. The danger in all this is that some wingnuts will insist that we reopen the concentration camps we had here in Arizona to hold Japanese-Americans citizens in order to put Muslims in them. It was nuts then and would be nuts now.

I beg to differ. This is not about persecution of a religious faith. What this is about is preventing extremists within the military from doing harm from within. This is no different than the skin heads at Bragg, or the Army sergeant in Iraq who fragged his officers.