Trouble Brewing

From an article by Paul Belien a truly chilling thought; how can you fight terrorism if you can't trust your military? And just being in the military gives a potential terrorist access to sophisticated weapons.

Dutch Worry About Radical Muslims in the Military
From the desk of Paul Belien on Tue, 2006-05-02 12:05
The Dutch secret services AIVD (state intelligence) and MIVD (military intelligence) are investigating an unknown number of Muslims within the Dutch army. Last Saturday, the Dutch newspaper Het Parool reported that a growing number of Dutch soldiers sympathizes with radical Islamists. The paper refers to the annual report of the MIVD, which states that it conducted a number of investigations into “alleged radicalisation of military personnel” as “there are signs that indicate a possible radicalisation of Muslim individuals or groups within the armed forces.”

Talk about fox in the hen house. And why might the Dutch military be needed to fight terrorists? Also from the article:

At least ten to twenty groups of Muslim terrorists are said to be active in the Netherlands, planning assassinations of politicians and the bombing of the AIVD headquarters.

Ten to twenty? Yikes. But there is an effort to clear radicals out of the military. This is bound to be impeded by cries of discrimination from the "victim" radicals.... First the cartoons, now they take our state owned weapons from us. Yes, and they better do it sooner rather than later:

It is said that one of the reasons why the French authorities did not employ the army during the November 2005 riots, despite calls to do so, was because 15% of the French armed forces are made up of Muslims. The number of Muslim citizens in Switzerland has grown from 16,000 to 310,000 during the past four decades.

Correction 6:05 PM -- corrected the last sentence to reflect the growth
of Muslim citizens in Switzerland (it had, in error, assigned those numbers
to the growth of Muslims in the army)