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Muslim Chaplain Offers American Brand of Islam

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NPR-There are about 1,300 chaplains in the U.S. Army, and of those, only five are Muslim. One of them, Maj. Khalid Shabazz, serves at Fort Hood in Texas and is getting ready to retire from his post to study ethics.

For three years, Shabazz has been the Muslim chaplain for the 1-227 Aviation Attack Battalion at Fort Hood. He’s a big part of the religious life of the Muslim soldiers on base, and he offers them a very American brand of Islam.

His office is full of citations and awards thanking him for his service. But it was a different story when he first discovered Islam as an artilleryman 16 years ago.

For Shabazz, it hasn’t always been easy to be a Muslim in the U.S. Army.

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2 Responses to “Muslim Chaplain Offers American Brand of Islam”

  1. Bill Says:
    May 20th, 2008 at 12:05 am

    American brand of Islam? You mean like Farrakhan? I’ve seen some of those folks downtown. One black guy with a couple of black women in veils following behind him. I guess all religions have some good aspects.

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