re: #139 HappyWarrior

It’s what they do AM. They love painting us as people who hate this country.

I had the opportunity to work with a Muslim when I was in the Navy. He was a child refugee from the Golan Heights after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. He and I had nothing but mutual respect for each other (we worked on the same equipment). Moreover, unlike the evangelical Christians, he didn’t try to proselytise on the job (or anywhere else).

When we pulled into ports where Arabic was the principal language, he would volunteer himself to the Captain’s office to help with official translations and such. The rest of the time he was an aviation radio and radar technician.

I do miss that I lost touch with him after I left the Navy.