How to stop a jihadi GI

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NY Post:

The Army learns, but libs don't
KURT SCHLICHTER
7/30/11

As a poster boy for the anti- war left, Pvt. Naser Jason Abdo seemed almost too good to be true: an assimilated American Muslim turned soldier -- turned pious conscientious objector, after it suddenly occurred to him that some of the guys he might be pointing his M4 at were Muslims too.

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It's sad that a wide array of military-haters, terrorist apologists and media meat puppets (ABC and CNN, among others, publicized his claims) were so willing to be suckered by this creepy little degenerate's tale of one religious man's oppression by bigoted warmongers.

Here's the bright side: The military's politically correct code of silence about potential psychos in its ranks is broken.

When Abdo spouted off with his jihadi-friendly views during training, there was none of the tolerance and excuse-making that enabled Maj. Nidal Hasan to pass up through the ranks until he'd murdered 13 people while shouting "Allah Akbar!"

When Adbo announced his sudden conversion to pacifism -- not mentioning the apparent exemption for Muslims who kill Americans -- the Army didn't rush to rubber-stamp his newfound reluctance to fight. Instead, it spent months investigating his conscientious-objector application -- much to the horror of Abdo's liberal cheering section.

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The military learned its lesson about the threat of Islamic terrorists in its ranks the hard way. Before the invasion of Iraq, Sgt. Hasan Akbar tossed a grenade into a tent and killed two soldiers; he has a date with a needle. Everyone remembers the Fort Hood killer, but fewer have heard of Marine reservist Yonathan Melaku, a 22-year-old charged with shooting at DC-area military buildings last fall.

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After all, it's not about being Muslim -- Abdo is the rare one who seems to think Muslims do not belong. He was mouthing the claims of the enemy when he told ABC News, "Any Muslim who knows his religion or maybe takes into account what his religion says can find out very clearly why he should not participate in the US military."

In reality, few Americans have worked as closely with Muslims around the world as servicemembers. And while the enemy is often Muslim, so are many of the allies who our soldiers fight, bleed and die with.

As for Abdo, he'll get his wish: He won't be deploying to Afghanistan with the Screaming Eagles (not that they'd have him). Too bad for him that the soldiers sitting on his court-martial are a far cry from the peaceniks, appeasers and cable hosts that made up his fan base.

It's not Abdo's religion that is going to seal his fate -- it's that he's a sniveling coward who tried to murder his brothers in arms. The only way he could get less sympathy is if he had Jane Fonda as a character witness.

Kurt Schlichter is an Army veteran, trial lawyer and writer.