A course at a military academy that taught US officers to prepare for “total war” with Islam does not represent an isolated incident, campaigners have warned.
The Pentagon moved swiftly to distance itself from revelations that officers in a defense department class were taught that “Hiroshima”-style tactics would be needed to combat the threat from Islam.“It was totally objectionable, against our values and it wasn’t academically sound,” said General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.
The class in question was canceled in April and Dempsey noted the instructor responsible for the course, army lieutenant colonel Matthew A Dooley, is “no longer in a teaching status”. Dooley, however, is still employed at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia.
Linda Sarsour, executive director at the Arab American Association of New York, said the course is merely the latest example in a proliferation of anti-Muslim teaching materials in law-enforcement agencies. “It’s part of a much larger problem,” Sarsour said, pointing to similar controversies involving the FBI and the New York police department.Read it at Raw Story
Anti-Islam teachings ‘widespread’ in U.S. law enforcement
By Ryan Devereaux | The Guardian (UK)
Islam is the latest iteration of the "red scare." America needs an enemy and now that "atheistic Communism" is history, it is Islam and China in the crosshairs. Well, you need some excuse to keep the military-industrial-governmental complex going at the extraordinary level it is being funded at, as well as an excuse to create a police state to control "insurgency and terrorism."
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I’d describe Islam as a fascist movement, thus there is much justification for the U.S. military’s stance.
Fascism consists, amongst other things of supressing other peoples’ freedom of speech – e.g. killing the cartoonists and authors one doesn’t like. (Adolf Hitler did this.)
About 20% of Muslims in the UK think that anyone who converts to another religion should be killed. See: http://www.pickledpolitics.com/archives/984 or http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/minette_marrin/article1323814.ece
Muslims have for many years tried at the U.N. to get criticism of Islam banned worldwide. See: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/johann-hari-why-should-i-respect-these-oppressive-religions-1517789.html
I could go on and cite more evidence. On the other hand, Muslims in the US seem to be assimilating. So if Muslims adopt more civilised forms of behaviour after arrival in the West, then OK. But they need watching.
Ralph,
Something is attracting them to the west. Or else they wouldn't be here.
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Informed rational freedom loving people have all the reasons in the world to fear islam. The twin fogs of political correctness & ignorance must be dispersed before western society better understands this menace. Even a brief review of islamic theology & history quickly exposes the deadly roots of this evil ideology.
Mohamhead was a 7th century murdering warlord who rose to power on a river of blood surrounded by thugs and gangsters using intimidation, violence, deception and trickery to expand their criminal empire while mercilessly suppressing and killing their opponents and enriching themselves on stolen booty.
The evil koran is a collection of sayings and speeches by this diabolical madman claiming divine guidance from some mythical sky-god which has inspired generations of crazed fanatics to abhorrent behavior resulting in historys worst ever crimes against humanity starting 1400 years ago and still continuing even today.
Islam is just another fascist totalitarian ideology used by power hungry fanatics on yet another quest for worldwide domination and includes all the usual human rights abuses & suppression of freedoms.
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Add up all the dead bodies and I'd say Christianity is still way ahead. And there are some pretty gruesome reports in the Hebrew scriptures about genocide, which are being justified on the same basis today.
The sentiment in the post goes to show the thinking that has led there and continues to do so, and so does the sentiment expressed in your offensive comment.
Is all this an argument against religion? I don't think so. I was having dinner with an Afghan Sufi sheik some time ago, and he was saying that all this terrorism (Islamofascism" to the West) and war on terror ("Crusaderism" to the East) has nothing to do with real religion, which is spirituality and is the same for all people but expressed differently in terms of language, culture and geography. He said that the the Islamist view of Islam is politics pure and simple, harnessing emotional fervor with religious misunderstanding for political advantage.
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