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

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 not 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