Muslims For A Safe Ummah.
The following is not intended to give any fatwa or opinion on Islam or Islamic jurisprudence in any way, for I am not qualified to do as much. The following is however, a critical analysis and explanation of my views of the U.S. legal system and citizenship. The determination is the reader’s alone whether what I claim about the U.S. citizenship conflicts with requirements of Islam upon Muslims.
U.S. citizenship may be acquired by being born within the U.S. territory or qualifying protectorates, by naturalization, or through descent. In basic terms, U.S. citizens whether they care to admit it or not, are engaged in an agreement with the U.S. federal government. This agreements gives the citizen benefits but also demands in return certain duties and obligations. U.S. citizens enjoy the right to live within the United States territory and conduct business and to be protected by laws and police and military installations. In return for this right, U.S. citizens implicitly or explicitly(if naturalized) agree to uphold the constitution, to take up arms for the U.S. federal government if called upon(with some exceptions) among other things. Importantly, U.S. citizens also agree to pay income tax to the federal government if they earn more than a certain amount of money in a given year. These are serious obligations and there is no freedom to escape these obligations. If a citizen does not pay income taxed owed and is caught the citizen faces the possibility of imprisonment. If a citizen dodges a military draft that might be in effect they also would likely face adverse consequences.
The U.S. constitution guarantees U.S. citizens certain rights, although what exactly of these rights are is not exactly clear. Also, experience and history demonstrate that in reality these rights are not universally respected or enforced especially with respect to certain groups of citizens. The rights of non-citizens and non-permanent residents with respect to the U.S. federal government is even less clear. Without getting into an unnecessary discussion of who are what controls the U.S. government, and what agenda/interests are being pursued by its policy, I will instead mention several facts. The U.S. government is currently, through its military engaged in military confrontations with a number of nations, groups or other types of entities. Some of these entities are made up of Muslims, some are not. I will not comment on whether any of these conflicts are justified, either in the Islamic moral system or in other moral systems. These military operations require resources and while I do not have any figures(if someone could provide a reliable source with these figures it would be helpful), it is my impression that some portion of the income taxes or other tax sources collected by the federal government are used to fund these operations.
By living within the U.S. both citizens and non-citizens enjoy a relatively peaceful zone that is made possible by the military and police presence. This peace and security is not evenly distributed however and certain areas are relatively unprotected by the federal or local authorities and so parallel and “illicit” law systems develop in this areas. These systems are often violent and harsh and harm the inhabitants of these areas more than anyone else. Despite this, the relative security in the nation at large allows for sophisticated trade, contractual, and property relationships and transactions to take place. While I also do not have empirical data to demonstrate this, it is my impression that the United States(through its citizens) enjoys a share of resources from the world outside of its borders which are gotten through means which may violate the norms of Islamic moral system as well as other moral systems. For example. if representatives of the United States engage in agreements with representatives of foreign nations using force, threat of force or bribery or a combination of such means, this may violate the guidelines of Islamic moral values as well as the moral values of other systems. While I believe the U.S. government does in engage in such practices at least in some degree through the research I have done, I will not attempt to persuade the reader that this is the case, and will leave it up to them to decide
Also, The United States federal government has engaged in a number of practices historically that might violate the moral values and rules of the Islamic moral system or other moral systems, and the benefits of these practices have passed on through succession to the modern day recipients, i.e. U.S. citizens. A well documented and well known example is the theft of land and other aggressive practices towards the various groups of people that are commonly and collectively referred to as “American Indians” or “Native Americans”.

In conclusion, I assert that we as Muslims should thoroughly examine whether the benefits and duties that come along with U.S. citizenship conflict with what Islam requires and demands of us. And we must consider whether the consequences of losing or otherwise limiting our citizenship outweighs the punishment of hellfire if these demands and benefits of citizenship indeed conflict with the demands and benefits of being a Muslim.

First off, I feel that all U.S. troops should withdraw immediately from Afghanistan and that the invasion was never justified in the first place.

Public opinion surveys conducted during the Bush administration showed that most American Muslims shared these views.

I think many American Muslims, and most especially Muslim leadership or Muslims in the public sphere are hesitant to be very vocal about Afghanistan because either they oppose the war but support Obama and so are hesitant to be critical of Obama, or they support the war but realize that many of the grassroots American Muslim community would be upset with them if they spoke in favor of the war, or they oppose the war and always opposed the war but are afraid this position will get them labelled as radicals or as sympathetic to the Taliban.