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It is important to understand and prepare for the response(s) of the broader left when one of their esteemed comrades faces justice - deportation, revoked citizenship or student visa, imprisonment. Islam, like communism, conditions people to think in terms of the group and the overarching cause, never the individual. This means that when a prominent, influential figure within their circle is taken out of the picture, they do not simply look at him as a separate individual, where his fate is lamented and perhaps passionately commented upon, but eventually, the people continue on their way. Instead, an affront to one is an affront to all, and they will rise up with even greater fury than before, band together more tightly, and present a broader 'front'. This is done out of "honor" and "defense" of the "honorable victim", and to bolster the cause he stood for. You might say that it is their way of sending in reinforcements, when one of their comrades has been wounded or taken out during battle. This ...

Banning transgenders from active military service has deeper validity than even the immediate, practical reasons of readiness, physical/mental fitness. Because of the clear problems at the outset of having such a person in these roles, a transgender who attempts to enter is, by very nature of the circumstance, not doing so out of a spirit of service to his country, but out of personal exhibitionism.