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**Maggy** · 21-02-2011, 08:24

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12504162

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With more than 600 Muslims in the British Armed Forces, do those that are deployed on the front line in Afghanistan have to reconcile their beliefs in order to fight hardline Islamic Taliban militants?
"My home is the UK. As a Muslim, that's the place I'd happily die for and kill for. That's the same way it's going to remain until my dying day.
"My entire soul belongs to the UK and I'm more than proud to fight for this country."

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Dr Joel Hayward is dean of the RAF College, Cranwell and a Muslim himself.
He said there was no conflict for a practising Muslim to serve in the British armed forces in Afghanistan.
"There's a direct correlation at least in my mind, as a scholar and as a Muslim, between those first persecutors of the Muslim community, and for example the terrorists and the insurgents that try and destabilise our world, or try and prevent Afghanistan from finding a proper place as a free nation in the community of nations.
"And so I have no worries in that sense about telling brother Muslims, or sisters, who are going out fight in Afghanistan that this is not incompatible with Islam.

So some British Muslims ARE doing something about the Taliban and Muslim extremists..