Yee Just One Of Many Subversion Cases

The usual suspects—plus one
holier-than-thou world power—are calling on the U.S.
military to repent for its treatment of Muslim chaplain
James Yee (a.k.a. “Yousef” or “Yousif”
Yee).

Refresher: Yee`s the Army captain
who ministered to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at

Guantanamo Bay. Seven months ago, Yee was arrested
on suspicion of espionage. He spent 76 days in solitary
confinement; the case didn`t materialize; he was
convicted on lesser charges of adultery and downloading
pornography. Last week, the Army Southern Command chief
who oversees military operations at Guantanamo

dismissed those convictions.

What more do Yee and his sympathy
circle want? They want the government to grovel and beg
forgiveness for being too aggressive in defending
against potential terrorist sympathizers and abettors.

In a letter to President Bush,
Yee`s lawyer complained of guards who

“refused to provide him with a liturgical calendar or
prayer rug and refused to tell him the time of day or
the direction of Mecca.” Comparing it to the
victimization of

gay soldiers, commentator Andrew Sullivan condemned
the military`s enforcement of the Uniform Code of
Military Justice against Yee as

“disgraceful, foul and malicious.”

And now, along with

Arab-American and

Asian-American activists trying to turn Yee into an
international human rights poster boy, comes the

Communist government of China.

According to the Zhongguo Xinwen
She news agency, the Chinese ambassador to the United
Nations, Sha Zukang, blasted the U.S. for “racial
discrimination” and cited “the recent case
against Chinese American Yousef Yee” as an example
of America`s

“domestic human rights situation.” The absurdity
of turning this into a racial issue is topped only by
the sanctimony of Ambassador Sha, representative of the
Falun Gong-torturing,

political dissent-steamrolling,

one-child-policy pioneers in Beijing, who fulminated
that “the United States should look at itself in a
mirror.”

Captain Yee`s stateside defenders,
such as

Cecilia Chang of the San Francisco Bay Area-based
grievance group

Justice for New Americans, likewise pretend he was
viciously singled out for being the child of
“immigrant minorities.” Chang complained that
“Many people who don`t look very `American` are being
targeted.”

This is identity-politics
opportunism of the worst kind. The fact that Yee was of

Chinese descent had about as much to do with the
case as his shoe size.

The issue is our continued
vulnerability to Islamist infiltration, particularly in
the armed forces. Yee`s

race card-playing team conveniently ignores the
recent arrest of Ryan Anderson, the

white Muslim National Guardsman accused of trying to
pass information about military capabilities to al Qaeda
over the Internet—as well as the other alleged espionage
cases at Guantanamo Bay involving

Ahmad F. Mehalba, an Egyptian-American Muslim
civilian interpreter charged with lying about computer
CDs in his baggage which contain classified information
from Guantanamo, and

Air Force Senior Airman Ahmad I. al Halabi. Al
Halabi, a Syrian-American Muslim, faces seventeen
charges of espionage, lying and disobeying orders, and
also stands accused of failing to report his contacts
with the

Syrian Embassy to his superiors and of repeatedly
lying to Air Force investigators.

After the Yee case came to light
last fall, I wrote that the military`s

dangerous deference to radical Islam was a menace to
our national security. The outcome of the Yee case does
not change my position on this.

(And by the way, to those readers
who have demanded that I apologize to Captain Yee, I`ll
send him a condolence card when you apologize for your


“Free Mike Hawash” campaign on behalf of the
Portland software engineer who pleaded guilty to aiding
terrorists and confessed that he and other associates
were

“prepared to take up arms, and die as martyrs if
necessary, to defend the Taliban.”)

Nor does the dismissal of charges
against Yee negate the still-pressing need to subject to
heightened scrutiny the rest of the armed forces`

Muslim chaplains—more than half of whom were trained
by a

terror-linked, Saudi-subsidized institute.

Once again, the hindsight
hypocrites are

lambasting the Bush administration for overreacting
while excoriating them in the same breath for
underreacting to potential terrorist conspiracies.

It`s a sorry sight.

Michelle Malkin [email
her] is author of

Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists,
Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores.
Click

here for Peter Brimelow`s review. Click

here for Michelle Malkin`s website.

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