He was drafted into the military in the early 1950s but served as a conscientious objector.
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For openers, he was a pacifist who refused to serve in World War II, instead registering in 1942 as a conscientious objector.
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Hasan's position in an incredible decision made last month by the secretary of the Army to grant conscientious objector status to Pfc.
When Britain went to war in 1939, he registered as a conscientious objector, which was to mean a two month spell in jail.
Monte Bello fell into desuetude during Prohibition, and a portion was replanted in the '40s by William Short, a Unitarian minister jailed as a conscientious objector throughout World War I.
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The Pentagon recently gave conscientious objector status to a Muslim soldier who claimed that, according to shariah, it was impermissible for him to kill his co-religionists in places like Afghanistan.
Mr. Kampelman was a conscientious objector during World War II and did alternate service by participating in a government-funded starvation study that saw him drop in weight to 100 pounds from 160.
Because I think you've got to face up to the fact that if you are a conscientious objector in a time of war, of your country at war, then you are excluded from the assembly of your countrymen in a particular manner.
In that presentation, he reportedly warned his Army colleagues and supervisor at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center of "adverse events" that would occur if the Army did not accept the precepts of Islamic Shariah law and grant Muslims serving in the Army conscientious objector status.
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