Quote Originally Posted by northpaw View Post
Dunno, I know zilch about the various interpretations of Islam and how our government would recognize them in this context. All I know is that it didn't work for Ali.

As for bending the teachings, sure, why not? I've known Muslims who drink, just like I've known Baptists who dance. We're talking about over a billion people worldwide who come from very different cultural backgrounds, so it stands to reason that there'd be a pretty wide variety who come to the US, too.
you also have to remember there are different sects just like any other religion and they interpret the tenants of the religion in different ways. That can sometimes be drastically different.


Personally the thought of banning someone from the military because of their religion or race or ethnic group is, say...don't we have laws about that in this country. I guess we could change those laws and whenever the majority doesn't like some minority we can just restrict their rights maybe even deport them all and if we can't find recipients we could just kill them all but of course another guy with a funny mustache tried that a while back.