The link: Army Chief Concerned for Muslim Troops
A quote:
Asked whether he thought the Army “dropped the ball” in not responding to warning signs that the major was increasingly radical, General Casey replied that he was encouraging soldiers to provide information to criminal investigators. But he added that the Army needs to be careful not to jump to conclusions based on early tidbits of information.
“The speculation could heighten the backlash,” he said on “This Week.” “What happened at Fort Hood is a tragedy and I believe it would be a greater tragedy if diversity became a casualty here.”
I do think that the supreme leader of the military should make sure that Muslim citizens under his watch aren’t physically harmed or harassed.
But advocating mindless diversity is pure propaganda and brainwashing. Now, as far as how a leader should protect Muslim citizens, but not make Slam out to be harmless and good, that’s his problem. I’m not a government official, so I don’t have the problem of being tempted to cower down in fear of losing my powerful government position. I only have the problem of being tempted to cower down in fear of losing my lowly position in life or of not being able to gain some other lowly position.
The fact is, bad religion should be opposed. It’s no fun opposing it, and opposing bad religion has the potential of putting you in uncomfortable situations with people, or worse if you’re in the minority, but it’s downright crazy to wimp out and make Slam out as benign.
I’m not currently working with any Muslims that I know of, but working with a Muslim wouldn’t be a problem with me. I hired a Pakistani engineering student using odesk.com to help me get disciplined and get up in the morning, and I assume he’s Muslim; I’ve never asked him whether he is or isn’t. As it turned out, he wasn’t disciplined either, but he’s still in my Skype contacts, and occasionally he’ll instant message me, or me him.
Society doesn’t have a problem with people not tolerating the KKK any more, but according to politicians such as General Casey, Slam is a good thing.
It’s not, though, and I know it’s not because I understand that the Koran is bad religion, and I can look around the world and see that Muslims take the Koran serious. They act on it. In particular, they act on the parts that tell them to subdue the unbeliever, and that’s why Slam is a such a threat. It’s not a threat because every Muslim acts on those parts of the Koran. It’s a threat because enough of them do. It’s no coincidence that Islamic republics like Pakistan and Iran are 99% Muslim.
Technically speaking, I consider all religions but one bad religion, but from a global perspective, you’re not going to hear me complaining like this about any other religion but Slam. That’s because there’s bad religion, and then there’s bad kill-you-dead religion.
I can coexist peacefully with adherents of a religion whose book doesn’t tell them to kill me. I can coexist peacefully with a small minority whose book tells them to kill me for blaspheming their god, but to facilitate the growth of that minority into a majority, that’s just crazy, especially when I can look around the world and see what happens when they’re something other than a very small minority of the population.
Slam is a global threat comparable to communism of old. But when communism was in full bloom, it wasn’t any different. There were a whole lot of people saying, “Who are we to condemn what they choose?”
