Posted: 08/12/2015 at 1:17pm
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Obama Alters U.S. Oath of Allegiance to Comply with Islamic Law
by Raymond Ibrahim
FrontPage Magazine
August 6, 2015
Immigrants recite the old Oath of Allegiance during a naturalization ceremony at Boston's Fenway Park in 2008. |
The Obama administration recently made changes to the Oath of
Allegiance to the United States in a manner very conducive to Sharia, or
Islamic law.
On July 21, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced
some "modifications" to the Oath of Allegiance that immigrants must
take before becoming naturalized. The original oath required incoming
citizens to declare that they will "bear arms on behalf of the United
States" and "perform noncombatant service in the Armed Forces of the
United States" when required by the law. Now the USCIS says that "a
candidate [to U.S. citizenship] may be eligible to exclude these two
clauses based on religious training and belief or a conscientious
objection."
The new changes further add that new candidates "may be eligible for
[additional?] modifications based on religious training and belief, or
conscientious objection arising from a deeply held moral or ethical
code."
Islamic law allows Muslims to feign
loyalty to a non-Muslim authority, but bans them from fighting fellow
Muslims on behalf of it.
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These changes serve incoming Islamic supremacists especially well.
For, while Islamic law allows Muslims to feign loyalty to non-Muslim
"infidel" authorities, it bans Muslims from living up to the pretense by
actually fighting or killing fellow Muslims on behalf of a non-Muslim
entity, such as the United States.
The perfectly fitting story of Nidal Hasan—the
U.S. Army major and observant Muslim who prayed daily but then turned
murderer—comes to mind and is illustrative. A pious Muslim, Hasan seemed
a "regular American," even if he was leading a double life—American
Army major and psychiatrist by day, financial supporter of jihadi groups
and associate of terrorists by night.
However, when time came for this American soldier to "bear arms on
behalf of the United States"—to quote the original Oath of
Allegiance—against fellow Muslims, things got ugly: he went on a
shooting spree in Fort Hood, killing thirteen Americans, including one
pregnant woman in 2009.
Much of Hasan's behavior is grounded in the Islamic doctrine of
Loyalty and Enmity. According to this essential teaching, Muslims must
always be loyal to Islam and fellow Muslims while having enmity for all
non-Islamic things and persons.
Asked by the judge about his oath upon being sentenced for the
attempted May 2010 Times Square car bombing, naturalized U.S. citizen
Faisal Shahzad replied, "I sweared [sic], but I didn't mean it." |
However, whenever Muslims find themselves under the authority of
non-Islamic institutions and persons, they are permitted to feign
loyalty—even to the point of cursing Islam and pretending to have
abandoned it—with one caveat: Muslims must never take up arms on behalf
of "infidels" against fellow Muslims. In other words, their loyalty to
non-Muslims must be skin deep.
Many are the verses in the Koran that support this divisive doctrine
(3:28, 4:89, 4:144, 9:23, and 58:22; the last simply states that true
Muslims do not befriend non-Muslims—"even if they be their fathers,
sons, brothers, or kin").
Most germane is Koran 3:28: "Let believers not take for friends and
allies infidels rather than believers: and whoever does this shall have
no relationship left with Allah—unless you but guard yourselves against
them, taking precautions."
The words translated here as "guard" and "precaution" are derived from the Arabic word taqu, from the trilateral root w-q-y—the same root that gives us the word taqiyya, the Islamic doctrine that permits Muslims to deceive non-Muslims whenever under their authority.
Ibn Kathir (d. 1373), author of one of the most authoritative
commentaries on the Koran, explains taqiyya in the context of verse 3:28
as follows: "Whoever at any time or place fears ... evil [from
non-Muslims] may protect himself through outward show." As proof of
this, he quotes Muhammad's close companion Abu Darda, who said, "Let us
grin in the face of some people while our hearts curse them."[1]
Muhammad ibn Jarir at-Tabari (d. 923), author of another standard commentary on the Koran, interprets verse 3:28 as follows:
If you [Muslims] are under
their [non-Muslims'] authority, fearing for yourselves, behave loyally
to them with your tongue while harboring inner animosity for them ...
[know that] God has forbidden believers from being friendly or on
intimate terms with the infidels rather than other believers—except when
infidels are above them [in authority]. Should that be the case, let
them act friendly towards them while preserving their religion.[2]
And therein lies the limit of taqiyya: when the deceit, the charade
begins to endanger the lives of fellow Muslims—who, as we have seen,
deserve first loyalty—it is forbidden. As al-Qaeda leader Ayman
al-Zawahiri puts it in his treatise on Loyalty and Enmity, Muslims may
pretend to be friendly and loyal to non-Muslims, so long as they do "not
undertake any initiative to support them [non-Muslims], commit sin, or
enable [them] through any deed or killing or fighting against Muslims" (The Al Qaeda Reader, p. 75).
Thus the idea that Nidal Hasan might be deployed to a Muslim country (Iraq or Afghanistan) was his "worst nightmare." When he realized that he was about to be deployed, he became "very upset and angry." The thought that he might injure or kill Muslims "weighed heavily on him." He also counseled a fellow Muslim not to join the U.S. Army, since "Muslims shouldn't kill Muslims."
Hasan is not the only Muslim to expose his disloyalty when pushed into fighting fellow Muslims on behalf of the United States.
The Obama administration has made it so that no Muslim immigrating to America need worry about defending it.
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In 2010, Naser Abdo, another Muslim soldier who joined the U.S. Army, demanded to be discharged on the claim that he was
a "conscientious objector whose devotion to Islam has suffered since he
took an oath to defend the United States against all enemies." The Army
agreed, but while processing him, officials found child pornography on
his government-issued computer and recommended that he be court-martialed. Abdo went AWOL and later tried to carry out a terrorist attack on a restaurant with the use of weapons of mass destruction.
And in April 2005, Hasan Akbar, another Muslim serving in the U.S.
Army, was convicted of murder for killing two American soldiers and
wounding fourteen in a grenade attack: "He launched the attack because he was concerned U.S. troops would kill fellow Muslims in Iraq."
In short, the first loyalty of any "American Muslim" who follows the
Koran is to fellow Muslims, regardless of their nationality. It is not
to American "infidels," even if they be their longtime neighbors whom
they daily smile to (see here for examples). Hence why American Muslim Tarik Shah,
who was arrested for terrorist-related charges, once boasted: "I could
be joking and smiling [with non-Muslims] and then cutting their throats
in the next second"—reminiscent of the aforementioned quote by
Muhammad's companion.
Now, in direct compliance with Islamic law, the Obama administration
has made it so that no Muslim immigrating to America need ever worry
about having to defend her—including against fellow Muslims or jihadis.
Raymond Ibrahim, a Judith Friedman Rosen writing fellow at the Middle East Forum, is a Shillman fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and author of Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War in Christians.
Edited by News Room on 08/12/2015 at 1:24pm
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