Wearing a hijab, Brewer on Monday recorded a video that quickly went viral. In it, she happily admits that if she is commanded, as a member of the U.S. military, to fight other Moslems, she would disobey the orders. She makes this clear in the context of a discussion of the conflict with the Islamic Theocratic
Republicof Iran.
Will the Army take action? Or would doing anything to call Brewer to account be "Islamophobic"?
This Muslim woman in our military says she will refuse commands if they target Muslims.
— Lancevideos (@lancevideos) March 25, 2026
Hey @PeteHegseth if this woman hasn’t been kicked out of The United States Military can you please do so ASAP? pic.twitter.com/nNFtpUMMon
It’s axiomatic: a soldier in the U.S. military should be loyal to the United States. But in a lengthy discussion of Islam and nationalism, the Islamic site The Message International laments the division that national boundaries have brought to the international Moslem community, and states that "since Moslems too often have put their national loyalty before their faith, the results are plain for all to see." The article decries "divisive
...politicians call things
divisivewhen when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never
divisive,they're
principled...
nationalist sentiment" and calls for Moslems to become "a united ummah" that "cuts through all artificial boundaries arising out of race, ethnicity, or culture."
What that means is that if there is a conflict between one’s loyalty to Islam and one’s loyalty to the U.S., a knowledgeable and observant Moslem will choose Islam. This is not the same as Christians or members of other faith groups putting their faith first, because Islam is political, supremacist, and expansionist in a way that Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, and Buddhism are not.
We have seen before what putting the umma, the global Moslem community, above loyalty to the U.S. means in practice. In April 2005, a Moslem serving in the U.S. Army, Hasan Akbar, a convert to Islam from a leftist family (his original middle name was "Fidel" — his name was Mark Fidel Kools), was convicted of murder for killing two American soldiers and wounding fourteen in a grenade attack in Kuwait. In the midst of his grenade and small-arms attack on March 22, 2003, he screamed: "You guys are coming into our countries, and you’re going to rape our women and kill our children."
Even though Hasan Akbar was an American, when he became a Moslem, any allegiance he may have had to America was gone. His allegiance lay solely with the umma.
Similarly, on Nov. 5, 2009, in Fort Hood, a Moslem U.S. Army psychiatrist, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, murdered thirteen unarmed soldiers and maimed over forty others while screaming "
...the irrational fear that Moslems will act the way they usually do..." himself.
In July 2011, another Moslem soldier, Pfc. Naser Jason Abdo, was arrested for plotting to explode a bomb at a restaurant near Fort Hood frequented by military personnel. As he was led out of a federal courtroom a day after his arrest, Abdo shouted out the name of his hero and role model: "Nidal Hasan Fort Hood 2009!"
Then there was John Thomas Booker, another convert to Islam who changed his name to Muhammad Abdullah Hassan, apparently because he admired Nidal Hasan. Hassan, according to the alert that the FBI and U.S. military distributed, Hassan was "recruited by the U.S. Army in Kansas City, Mo., in February 2014 and was scheduled to report for basic training on April 7. But he was discharged last week, apparently after law enforcement authorities learned of his alleged plan." His plan was to stage a Fort Hood-style jihad massacre of his own. He wrote on Facebook (spelling and grammar as in the original): "Oh those of the ummah of the Prophet Muhammad(S)j. I will soon be leaving you forever so goodbye! I am going to wage jihad and hopes that i die."
Another convert to Islam in the U.S. military, Nicholas Teausant/Ased Abdur-Raheem, was a member of the Army National Guard who wrote on Instagram: "don’t get me wrong I despise america and want its down fall but yeah haha. Lol I been a part of the army for two years now and I would love to join Allah’s army but I don’t even know how to start."
Fariah Brewer is yet another convert to Islam in the U.S. military. She was wearing what the Salty Soldier describes as "Army Operational Camouflage Pattern (OCP) uniform, with a U.S. flag patch clearly visible" when she affirmed that she would disobey an order to fight fellow Moslems. Not The Bee reported Thursday that Brewer "states on social media that she ’revert[ed] to Islam’ in December 2023," and "reportedly laughed about joining the Army for the benefits." Not The Bee adds the eyebrow-raising fact that "Brewer’s father is reportedly in prison for murdering a veteran in 2011."
So what happens now? Will Brewer remain in the military? Will Secretary of War Pete Hegseth deal with the issue of the divided loyalty of Moslems in the military? Or will this ongoing problem continue to be ignored?
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