Salaam aleykum warahmahtullah They are planning and Allah is planning and Allah is best of Planners.
NO doubt, by wage a crusade against Muslims (but not Islam, i tend to argue that there is no Islam in Muslim world paracticed as an DEEN) America has stepped herself into a bear trap, eventually she has to eat her foot out of the trap. She has been facing humangus amounts of problems around the globe and now even domestically. the Politics of inculcating the fear in the hearts n minds of American people to gain support for its policy of war on terrorism is dying away. this could be drawn from an excerpt the article below "Several recruiters said they had even been threatened with violence. "I had one father say if he saw me on his doorstep I better have some protection on me," said a recruiter in Ohio. "We see a lot of hostility." Alhumdulilah, they, the Fujjar were planning the exodus of soldeirs to iraq to protect its capitalist interest, Allah swt is planning too. Ma-salama prince of Destiny http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/03/nyregion/03recruit.html?incamp=article_popular Growing Problem for Military Recruiters: Parents Tara Engberg for The New York Times Ann Sarrantonio, at a school board meeting in Accord, N.Y., voiced objections to military recruiting at school. * E-Mail This * Printer-Friendly * Single-Page * Reprints By DAMIEN CAVE Published: June 3, 2005 Rachel Rogers, a single mother of four in upstate New York, did not worry about the presence of National Guard recruiters at her son's high school until she learned that they taught students how to throw hand grenades, using baseballs as stand-ins. For the last month she has been insisting that administrators limit recruiters' access to children. Skip to next paragraph The Reach of War Go to Complete Coverage Readers Forum: The Transition in Iraq The New York Times Orlando Terrazas, a former truck driver in Southern California, said he was struck when his son told him that recruiters were promising students jobs as musicians. Mr. Terrazas has been trying since September to hang posters at his son's public school to counter the military's message. Meanwhile, Amy Hagopian, co-chairwoman of the Parent-Teacher-Student Association at Garfield High School in Seattle, has been fighting against a four-year-old federal law that requires public schools to give military recruiters the same access to students as college recruiters get, or lose federal funding. She also recently took a few hours off work to stand beside recruiters at Garfield High and display pictures of injured American soldiers from Iraq. "We want to show the military that they are not welcome by the P.T.S.A. in this building," she said. "We hope other P.T.S.A.'s will follow." Two years into the war in Iraq, as the Army and Marines struggle to refill their ranks, parents have become boulders of opposition that recruiters cannot move. Mothers and fathers around the country said they were terrified that their children would have to be killed - or kill - in a war that many see as unnecessary and without end. Around the dinner table, many parents said, they are discouraging their children from serving. At schools, they are insisting that recruiters be kept away, incensed at the access that they have to adolescents easily dazzled by incentive packages and flashy equipment. A Department of Defense survey last November, the latest, shows that only 25 percent of parents would recommend military service to their children, down from 42 percent in August 2003. "Parents," said one recruiter in Ohio who insisted on anonymity because the Army ordered all recruiters not to talk to reporters, "are the biggest hurdle we face." Legally, there is little a parent can do to prevent a child over 18 from enlisting. But in interviews, recruiters said that it was very hard to sign up a young man or woman over the strong objections of a parent. The Pentagon - faced with using only volunteers during a sustained conflict, an effort rarely tried in American history - is especially vexed by a generation of more activist parents who have no qualms about projecting their own views onto their children. Lawrence S. Wittner, a military historian at the State University of New York, Albany, said today's parents also had more power. "With the draft, there were limited opportunities for avoiding the military, and parents were trapped, reduced to draft counseling or taking their children to Canada," he said. "But with the volunteer armed force, what one gets is more vigorous recruitment and more opportunities to resist." Some of that opportunity was provoked by the very law that was supposed to make it easier for recruiters to reach students more directly. No Child Left Behind, which was passed by Congress in 2001, requires schools to turn over students' home phone numbers and addresses unless parents opt out. That is often the spark that ignites parental resistance. Recruiters, in interviews over the past six months, said that opposition can be fierce. Three years ago, perhaps 1 or 2 of 10 parents would hang up immediately on a cold call to a potential recruit's home, said a recruiter in New York who, like most others interviewed, insisted on anonymity to protect his career. "Now," he said, "in the past year or two, people hang up all the time. " Several recruiters said they had even been threatened with violence. "I had one father say if he saw me on his doorstep I better have some protection on me," said a recruiter in Ohio. "We see a lot of hostility." 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