Muslim Woman in U.S. Military Says She Won’t Fight Muslims; The problem of Muslim Loyalty Continues to be Ignored, But Won’t Go Away; A Muslim U.S. Soldier Says She'll Disobey Commands to Fight Muslims. Now What?

Muslim Woman in U.S. Military Says She Won’t Fight Muslims:


The problem of Muslim loyalty continues to be ignored, but won’t go away.

The video went viral on Wednesday: a well-fed, hijabed Muslim woman in a U.S. military uniform, smiling happily, affirmed that she would not obey orders if they involved her attacking people who were Muslims. She is by no means the first Muslim to say this, and won’t be the last. Apparently it would be “Islamophobic” for the United States to keep disloyal soldiers out of the military.

Not The Bee reported Thursday that the soldier in the video is “Fariah Brewer, also known as Araiya Brewer.” Brewer “recorded the video on Monday, March 23” over the question of war with the Islamic Republic of Iran. She “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 startling fact that “Brewer’s father is reportedly in prison for murdering a veteran in 2011.”

So what’s next for Fariah/Araiya Brewer? Will she be drummed out of the military? Will she face any military discipline at all? The question is larger than just her case, because we have seen this kind of thing before, and more than once. In April 2005, a Muslim serving in the U.S. Army, Hasan Akbar, 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 yelled: “You guys are coming into our countries, and you’re going to rape our women and kill our children.”

Akbar was not Iraqi or Kuwaiti. He was an American, raised in Los Angeles. But when he became a Muslim, any allegiance he may have had to America was gone. His allegiance lay solely with the umma, the global Muslim community.

On November 5, 2009 in Fort Hood, an army psychiatrist, Major Nidal Malik Hasan, murdered thirteen unarmed soldiers and wounded over forty others while screaming “Allahu akbar.”Before his murderous jihad rampage, Hasan had raised eyebrows with his Islamic proselytizing, which he carried on even when he was supposed to be conducting medical briefings. Yet he kept on being promoted and coddled, as the army brass was so happy to have a Muslim soldier they could show off to demonstrate that they weren’t “Islamophobic.” Anyone who might have questioned Hasan’s loyalty would have been under suspicion himself.

In July 2011, another Muslim 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!” --->READ MORE HERE

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A Muslim U.S. Soldier Says She'll Disobey Commands to Fight Muslims. Now What?

Will Fariah Brewer be disciplined? Will she be thrown out of the military?

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 Muslims, she would disobey the orders. She makes this clear in the context of a discussion of the conflict with the Islamic Republic of 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.

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

— Lancevideos (@lancevideos) March 25, 2026

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 Muslim community, and states that “since Muslims too often have put their national loyalty before their faith, the results are plain for all to see.” The article decries “divisive nationalist sentiment” and calls for Muslims 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 Muslim 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 Muslim community, above loyalty to the U.S. means in practice. In April 2005, a Muslim 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.” --->READ MORE HERE

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