Several posts ago your faithful correspondent wondered why American Muslims had not joined in, great numbers, the US military after the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001. After all, after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 Japanese-Americans joined the US Army in enough numbers to constitute a division of enlisted men (the 442nd Division -- one of the highest decorated divisions in the US Army in the European theatre).
Now that yours has considered the question he has decided that the proper thing for the US military do is exclude Muslims from the military.
Recently it has come out that the commander of the Thai military, when questioned why the Thai military does not recruit Thai Muslims for either the enlisted and officer ranks stated, "We don't trust Muslims to put Thailand and our king before Islam."
If the Thais, who have had centuries of Muslim presence in their nation, have decided that Muslims are not to be trusted, why should we?
Never mind that there has been a coup, in favor of the king, in Thailand in the last week. The military supported their duly appointed king in favor of a waffling PM.
If the Thais, who have experienced centuries of Islamic presence, don't trust the Muslims, why should we?
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