by Bryan Fischer

My blog entry from last Friday, in which I suggested we bring to an end the practice of allowing Muslims to serve in the U.S. military, has taken on a life of its own. The left-wing blogosphere has thrown an hysterical, eye-crossing hissy fit, and Keith Olbermann awarded me the bronze medal (incidentally, along with Rush Limbaugh) as Monday's "Worst Person in the World."

The Washington Post, the LA Times, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and the Palm Beach Post have all jumped on yours truly, and one blog ran a poll giving readers a choice between me and Bill O'Reilly as the "most outrageous" person of the day.

My politically incorrect crime: pointing out that the Koran compels its followers to kill the infidel - including American soldiers - "wherever you find them." As I told Alan Colmes on his radio program Tuesday night, we simply should not have people serving in the U.S. military whose holy book commands them to kill American soldiers.

The only Muslims who can safely serve in our military are those who don't take their religion seriously, because the more devout they become, the more likely they are to go jihad on their comrades in uniform.

But we don't need to look any further than the Department of Defense's own directives to see clearly why Muslims shouldn't serve.

It has for a long time been military policy that "military personnel must reject participation in organizations that espouse supremacist causes" (strike one), "advocate the use of force and violence" (strike two) or "otherwise engage in efforts to deprive individuals of their civil rights" (strike three).

Islam clearly espouses a "supremacist" ideology. They want to take over the world at the point of the sword, and their imams talk ceaselessly and breathlessly about the day when the star and crescent will fly over the White House.

One of the slides Maj. Hasan used in his now-notorious PowerPoint presentation given at Walter Reed medical center in 2007 quotes the Koran: "I have been commanded to fight the people until they testify that there is no deity worthy of worship except Allah and that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah." Sounds like a supremacist cause to me.

A second slide from Hasan's presentation includes this gem from the Koran: "So when the Sacred Months have passed, then fight the Mushrikin (idolaters) wherever you find them, and capture them, and lie in wait for them in each and every ambush." Sounds like an organization that "advocate(s) the use of force and violence" to me. How about you?

And a third slide in Hasan's presentation contains this beauty from the Koran: "Fight those who do not believe in Allah...until they pay the tax in acknowledgment of superiority and they are in a state of subjection." Christians are thus consigned to permanent second class citizenship and forced to pay protection money to their Muslim overlords. Sounds like an organization "engage(d) in efforts to deprive individuals of their civil rights" to me. How about you?

Bottom line: we don't need to look any further than the Department of Defense's own directives to decide whether Muslims should be allowed to serve. If we shouldn't allow neo-Nazi skinheads who believe in Aryan supremacy to serve, neither should we allow Muslims who believe in Islamic supremacy to serve. And that's not me setting those standards, that's the Pentagon.