A Facebook group I monitor occasionally got into an enhanced Fujitsu Five shitstorm over the inclusion of a new atheist chaplain in the military. My notifications were blowing up and it had nothing to do with me, which is absolutely unacceptable.
So, I read diligently through all the comments (I read two, got bored, flipped through Twitter, which led me to the new Brazzers update, and the chain of events ended in me passing out for 15 minutes then waking up to crack my bitching fingers) and realized that there’s a huge problem with all this atheist chaplain bullshit.
First of all, it’s an oxymoron, like jumbo shrimp. Atheist chaplain? Gimmeafrigginbreak.
Second, this is distracting us from a far more dangerous threat—Muslim ideologues in the US military.
Before you easily-outraged, maxipad-bedecked professional bitch’n’moaners accuse me of being Islamophobic, remember—we had no Shinto chaplains in the military during WWII, nor did we have any atheist chaplains. It would have been strange to do so considering we faced two ever-growing world powers who represented atheism/statism (most importantly, Nazi Germany) as well as some bastardization of the Shinto/Bushido warrior code with Imperial Japan. Remember too—this was not a volunteer military back then. Now, if you really have an issue with there not being a Scientology chaplain to accommodate you—you’re just gonna have to deal with that shit on your own.
We have a few Muslim chaplains now, and while it’s strange considering the radical Islamic threat we face, they seem like nice people, such as Chaplain (Maj.) Agbere.
They’re not my concern. What concerns me the most is our military’s seeming blindness to Muslim ideologues in our ranks—who spread their faith where chaplains are not allowed to.
Case in point: Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a radical student of former George Washington University chaplain Anwar al-Awlaki, who has been connected to every major terror attack and attempt of the past decade.
L (Awlaki), R (Hasan). Which one’s the terrorist? Spoiler alert: both!
Hasan was in regular communication with Awlaki, which concerned the FBI so much that they launched an investigation (which was subsequently dropped when they thought that the emails posed no threat).
You may remember Hasan—he killed 13 Army personnel and injured 29 others at Ft. Hood in the worst terrorist attack on US soil since 9/11.
The Department of Defense embarrassingly classified this as “workplace violence”—despite the fact that Hasan was free to proselytize and spread his religion, going as far as handing out copies of the Quran the morning of and collecting fellow Muslim officers to pray.
How our military can be so blind to the threat that we face baffles me—especially when they’re on the front lines. While they dick around with atheist chaplains and diversity-approved Muslim chaplains, the real religious radicals continue to operate within the ranks—and 13 soldiers have lost their lives with zero lessons learned.
