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Originally Posted by GiveRespect
I'm a Muslim. Am I an enemy? Should I even consider going to the military now. Will I go and disrupt unit morale? Am I a threat to this nation? I’ve been reading all the posts and I feel like everything I did up to this point was a waste. All the pushups, pull-ups, running, swimming, and reading. All the very basic things I did to ensure my success, is it now gone? All this time on this website was it for nothing? Until tonight I was dead sure that I needed to fight for my country and defend the constitution and NOT sharia bullshit law. I wanted to help free the oppressed .I wanted to be something bigger than I was. If my name was forever wiped for the "sands of time” but I helped overthrow the unjust it would have been fine to me. I feel like I could never be truly accepted because of my religion now. I feel so nothing right now. But anyway regardless, still thank all of you for serving this nation. Truly I don’t mean that in any sarcastic way. You brave men inspired me and thank you. But now I have some thinking to do. God bless America, its troops, and its allies.
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Only if you follow Islam as it is written will you be an enemy.
If you believe Muhammad to be the perfect man and his actions valid today as they were long ago, to be emulated in all things, then you would be an enemy.
If you believe that Islam, as a religion and political construct must reign supreme...as it is written, then you will be an enemy of anyone that wants to retain their form of Western Govt.
Islam is not a passive religion designed to co exist with other forms of Govt.
I've always understood, from reading the Koran, Hadith, Sira that a 'true' Muslim will always seek to have Islam as not only the Religion of the land but the arbiter of local law.
It is not, as written and practiced by Muhammad, a separate issue.
I have found that military personnel that call themselves Muslim cherry pick the Religion and ignore much of its tenets. They can be good soldiers.
To many ME Muslims they would really call these US soldier 's Takfir.