Lawmaker agrees: No Muslims in the military

To my knowledge, I was the first voice in America to call for stopping the practice of Muslims serving in the U.S. military. I did so the day after the Fort Hood shootings in November of 2009.

I endured a withering firestorm of criticism from friend and foe alike, and was summoned to both CNN and the Alan Colmes radio show to explain myself.

Now a prominent Tennessee legislator, Rep. Rick Womick, is joining me in this call. Said he, at a Sharia-awareness-event over the weekend, "If you believe it (the Quran), you are commanded to kill anybody who will not convert to Islam." (Watch the video.)

He went on: "I don't trust one Muslim in our military," and added, "If they are truly devout Muslims, and follow the Quran and the Sunnah, then I feel threatened because they're commanded to kill me." When asked if Muslims should be forced out of the military, Womick said, "Absolutely, yeah."

And of course he is right about what the Quran teaches the followers of Muhammad and Allah. There are 109 verses in the Quran, by one count, that call for violence against infidel Christians and Jews. One example will suffice: "Slay the idolaters wherever you find them. Arrest them, besiege them, and lie in ambush everywhere for them" (Sura 9:5).

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What part of "slay the idolaters wherever you find them" do brain-addled idolaters not understand? Muslims have been ordered by their god to kill you! What about that do you not get?

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Arresting, besieging and lying in ambush is exactly the kind of thing the United States military does to our enemies. Who are Muslims obligated to do that to? Who are the enemies of Islam that devout Muslims are ordered to arrest, besiege and ambush? Why, their fellow soldiers who believe in the God of Christianity.

It would be one thing if this ideology were covert and we were just finding out about it. But it's right there in their holy book where it has been for 1,400 years, where everybody, including our next commander in chief, can read it. It is sheer lunacy not to take this seriously.

In fact, I would suggest that I am showing more honor to Muslims than anyone else, because I am taking their religion more seriously than they are. I believe what Allah said through his Prophet, peace be upon him, that his followers have a sacred duty to slay infidel Americans. It shows a shameless lack of respect for Islam not to believe what their holy book says about their own religion. I have too much respect for Muslims and their sincerity and devotion to make that mistake.

Serving in the United States military is a privilege, not a right. It is a privilege that should be reserved for those who do not have a sacred obligation to kill their fellow soldiers.

Some will say we need not worry since these Muslim soldiers take an oath to uphold the Constitution and defend the United States "against all enemies foreign and domestic." Small comfort to the families of the 13 soldiers at Fort Hood who were gunned down in cold blood by a Muslim who shouted "Allahu Akbar" before he started firing, all after he had taken that solemn oath.

The oath, while it means something to an American steeped in the values of Christianity, means nothing to a devout Muslim, since his religion and its doctrine of taqqiya honors him for lying to infidels if it will advance the cause of Islam. Their own religion tells us we cannot trust the oath of a Muslim.

This Fort Hood jihadi, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, had made it abundantly clear to his classmates and professors that, "I'm a Muslim first and I hold the Shariah, the Islamic law, before the United States Constitution." In other words, he was just being a good and faithful Muslim.

In the Penn State tragedy, everyone is looking for someone to blame for what went wrong and wondering how it is possible for so many warning signs to have been ignored for so long, with the result that a devastating trail of victims has been left in their wake.

Well, if we don't get serious about the Muslim problem in our military, we're going to be asking the same questions about jihadi attacks from Muslim soldiers before too long, and the answer will be that we just didn't believe the words of their own god, their own prophet and their own holy book.

Quite frankly, every candidate for the presidency, every man or woman who wants to be our next commander in chief, needs to be asked one question by the media: "Would you, as commander in chief, be OK with individuals serving in the military who have a sacred duty to kill their fellow soldiers?" Inquiring minds, along with security-conscious Americans, want to know.

Bryan Fischer is director of issue analysis for the American Family Association. Follow him on Twitter: @BryanJFischer and on Facebook at "Focal Point." (Unless otherwise noted, the opinions expressed are the author's and do not necessarily reflect the views of the American Family Association or American Family Radio.)