The government of Egypt does not hesitate to dismiss officers with jihadist sentiments from its military. In the United States, a similar move against a Muslim officer such as Nidal Malik Hasan, who murdered 13 people at Fort Hood while screaming “Allahu akbar,” would be denounced as “Islamophobia” and the people involved would be dismissed from their posts.
“Ex-special forces officer is sentenced to death along with 36 others after he became Egyptian ISIS terror leader who masterminded deadly terror attacks,” by Isabella Nikolic, Mailonline, February 1, 2020 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
An ex-special forces officer turned ISIS terror leader has been sentenced to death for the third time alongside 36 others in Egypt.
Hisham al-Ashmawy was captured in Derna, Libya, in late 2018 and was transferred back to Egypt in May last year by commander Khalifa Haftar.
He is accused of killing 54 people in total and has been convicted on several charges, including plotting a 2014 attack that killed 22 military guards near the frontier with Libya….
Ashmawy led the Sinai-based Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, Egypt’s most active militant group, before it pledged allegiance to Islamic State in 2014, it said….
He was dismissed from the special forces in 2012 over concerns about his religious views.
He then joined the Sinai-based Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis but broke with the group after it pledged allegiance to the Daesh group in November 2014.
Known by his nom de guerre ‘Abu Omar Al-MuHajjir,’ Ashmawy announced the formation of an Al-Qaeda-aligned militant group Al-Mourabitoun in Libya in July 2015….