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  johnpi 2:21 pm on February 20, 2010 | 1 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: army (8), fox news (19), muslim soldiers (2), muslims in the military, Pat Robertson (5), translators, US military (60)

  Army finds no evidence of poisoning plot at Fort Jackson.

  A U.S. Army program at the center of a probe into allegations that Muslim translator trainees threatened to poison soldiers at Fort Jackson was moved to a post in Arizona last month.

  Spokeswomen at both Fort Jackson and Fort Huachuca, Ariz., confirmed the program — which trains non-citizen native speakers of languages such as Arabic and Farsi to become soldiers and translators — has been relocated.
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  On Thursday, a report by the evangelist Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcast Network and Fox News stated that five Muslim translators had been arrested at Fort Jackson in December for threatening to poison other soldiers. The Army has not reported making any arrests.

  A statement Friday from the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division confirmed an investigation into the allegations has been ongoing “for almost two months.”

  “But … we have not found any credible information to substantiate the allegations,” the statements said.

   

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  johnpi 9:00 am on January 14, 2010 | 0 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Extremism (167), muslim american extremism (25), muslims in the military, US military (60)

  Republican senators urge special screening procedures for Muslim soldiers.

  The committee spokesperson suggested some conduct that, ipso facto, makes someone an ‘Islamist extremist.’

  The letter did not spell out what such warning signs might be, but committee spokeswoman Leslie Phillips said they could include viewing jihadi websites or reading jihadi literature.

  They could also include making statements that a service member’s loyalty is to fellow Muslims first and to the United States second, or that Muslim-American soldiers have a religious obligation not to fight in conflicts against Muslims and to disobey any related orders, she said.

   
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  aziz 4:27 pm on November 10, 2009 | 47 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: Islam (245), muslim american (20), Muslims in America (36), muslims in the military

  Should muslim Americans serve in the armed forces of the United States?

  What are the doctrinal and textual rationales and arguments for and against such service? (Qur’an, hadith, rulings, etc.).

  Let’s talk about it in detail. Most of you are more knowledgeable than I so I want to tap the Talk Islam braintrust here and have a rigorous debate. We need to listen to what the Deenport/Umar Lee types have to say as well.