Muslim US soldier arrested for ISIS ties declared allegiance to the Islamic State SIX YEARS ago but was allowed to continue to serve

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This is more of the poison fruit of the Obama administration’s refusal to acknowledge that Islamic terrorism was Islamic. The U.S. government was desperate to have Muslims to prove that this was not a war on Islam. Those Muslim soldiers were golden boys who could get away with anything. Whoever is responsible for this treatment of Ikaika Kang should be court-martialed and disgraced, but won’t be.

“Soldier arrested for ties to ISIS declared sympathy for the extremist group SIX YEARS ago but was allowed to continue to serve,” by Jessica Finn and Jay Akbar, Mailonline, July 12, 2017:

A US soldier who was arrested for ties to ISIS pledged allegiance to the terror group as early as 2011, authorities have said.

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Ikaika Erik Kang, who reportedly won the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, is accused of giving US military documents and training to the terrorist group.

Kang, 34, continued to serve in the Army for years after expressing support for ISIS as the military and the FBI investigated to determine whether he posed a threat, authorities said.

Kang’s father Clifford has since said his son, who was was deployed to Iraq in 2011 and Afghanistan in 2013, may have been suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.

Clifford Kang told Honolulu TV station KHON and the Star-Advertiser newspaper he became concerned after his son’s return from Afghanistan – and that he had become ‘withdrawn’.

He also said his son started studying the Islamic faith a couple of years ago during one of his deployments.

Sergeant First Class Kang was taken into custody over the weekend after declaring his loyalty to the terrorist group and admission that he wanted to ‘kill a bunch of people’, according to authorities.

Kang is on record making pro-Islamic State comments and threatening to hurt or kill other service members back in 2011, according to an FBI affidavit filed Monday in federal court.

The Army revoked his security clearance in 2012 but gave it back to him the following year.

Last year, the Army called the FBI when it ‘appeared that Kang was becoming radicalized’, the affidavit said.

Retired Army judge and prosecutor Colonel Gregory Gross said he was perplexed that the Army allowed Kang to remain a soldier even after his favorable comments toward the Islamic State group.

But Gross said the Army may have decided Kang was just mouthing off and was not a threat.

The senior Kang however was shocked to hear about his son’s connection to ISIS.

‘Nobody told me anything. This is the first time I heard about’ it, said Clifford Kang when reached by telephone by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser Monday. ‘I’m kind of stunned to tell you the truth.’

‘I never heard of him being with ISIS,’ Kang said…

Kang told an undercover federal agent Saturday that he wanted to kill ‘a bunch of people’….

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katzkiner
katzkiner
6 years ago

Everybody wonders how Nidal Hassan was allowed to stay until he went all jihad on us.
Here is your answer.
“The future must not belong to those who would malign/defame/insult /tell the truth about islam.”
Her name is Barbera Comstock House Rep. from District 10 of Virginia, bill #257 making it a “hate crime” to criticize minorities.
Sometimes minorities are wrong, other times minorities can be evil.
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JWM
JWM
6 years ago
Reply to  katzkiner

If only they were the one’s affected by it.

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

Indecisiveness is a sigh of weakness, American military scrap brass are weak.

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6 years ago

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Toy Pupanbai
Toy Pupanbai
6 years ago

By very definition, Islamists cannot faithfully serve in the Military or any Government position!

For any Western culture to survive, it must first be Legally declared, that the tyrannical Theocratic Ideology, Islam/Mohammedanism, is not a RELIGION.
N.B, Neither is it a RACE!

GR Arnold
GR Arnold
6 years ago

We know why this one was overlooked. The Muslim Anointed One was POTUS. I’m sure this was well discussed as well six years ago. Damn traitors.

iprazhm
iprazhm
6 years ago

Why do we have people in authority who are purposely allowing the enemy to infiltrate our military? Why isn’t the highest ranking officer of the land, the Commander In Chief, firing them?
The President may relieve any officer from any command or, for that matter, any particular position in the armed forces, in the President’s Commander-in-Chief authority under Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution, and it cannot be fettered by Congress.
It is within the constitutional power of the President.
The Officer can be given the option to apply for voluntary retirement, which is usually what happens.
So, there’s NO excuse for Trump to continue allowing these traitors, or the traitors purposely filling our ranks with the sexually derelict and deviant.
Unless he secretly agrees with the left’s internal usurpation of our fighting forces.

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