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U.S. military officers taught that Islam is the enemy
Fayetteville Observer ^ | May 10, 2012 | Pauline Jelinek and Robert Burns

Posted on 05/11/2012 6:41:53 AM PDT by DJ Taylor

WASHINGTON - A course for U.S. military officers has been teaching that America's enemy is Islam in general, not just terrorists, and suggested that the country might ultimately have to obliterate the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina without regard for civilian deaths, following World War II precedents of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima or the allied firebombing of Dresden.

The Pentagon suspended the course in late April when a student objected to the material. The FBI also changed some agent training last year after discovering that it, too, was critical of Islam.

(Excerpt) Read more at fayobserver.com ...


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It's called "Know Your Enemy," but the enemy is now one of the Democrat Party's voting blocks and we can't have that during an election year, now can we?
1 posted on 05/11/2012 6:42:01 AM PDT by DJ Taylor
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Is the Democrat Party identified in this training?


2 posted on 05/11/2012 6:43:54 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Journalists first; then lawyers.)
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3 posted on 05/11/2012 6:46:06 AM PDT by tomkat ( FU.baraq <font finger=middle>)
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To: DJ Taylor

Just watch GBTV instead.


4 posted on 05/11/2012 6:46:26 AM PDT by Jacquerie (No court will save us from ourselves.)
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“A course for U.S. military officers has been teaching that America’s enemy is Islam..............”

It is! One of Freedom’s enemies.


5 posted on 05/11/2012 6:50:17 AM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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The Pentagon suspended the course in late April when a student objected to the material.

Really? So if a soldier objects to something, the Pentagon will change it. I wonder if the folks now going through basic training are aware of this.

6 posted on 05/11/2012 6:53:10 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I carrying this lantern? you ask. I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: Jacquerie

I just learned recently what a Jacquerie was when I read an excellent book on the 14th century. French peasants who revolted against the nobility in 1300’s and with a little more organization, might have brought an end to Baronial and Ducal France some 500 years earlier..


7 posted on 05/11/2012 6:54:50 AM PDT by cardinal4 (Do I really need a /s tag?)
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To: DJ Taylor

Anyone paying attention will know that Islam is the enemy.


8 posted on 05/11/2012 6:55:48 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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Um, they’re not?


9 posted on 05/11/2012 6:56:50 AM PDT by cardinal4 (Do I really need a /s tag?)
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Dear enemies,

We want you to know that we know your name. We just aren’t allowed to reveal it. Know whatImean!


10 posted on 05/11/2012 6:59:28 AM PDT by F.J. Mitchell (Bye "O",bye "O ", bye Obama, Bye "O")
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To: DJ Taylor

So much for this very perceptive, potentially life-saving training.
The Moslems will be “outraged,” and the CiC will get it shut down.
Thank you very, Fayetteville Observer.


11 posted on 05/11/2012 7:00:40 AM PDT by Little Ray (FOR the best Conservative in the Primary; AGAINST Obama in the General.)
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To: Little Ray

Here come more riots in Afghanistan now that news about this has gotten out.


12 posted on 05/11/2012 7:01:45 AM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

Liberals have always through history failed to identify our true enemies; Nazi’s in WW2, and communists in the Cold War. And the enemies in all cases never were shy of their intentions for us, but the left just can’t admit to reality for some reason.


13 posted on 05/11/2012 7:01:45 AM PDT by Wildbill22
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To: Leaning Right

This appears to be a military post-grad school for — I’m guessing — field grade officers who are considered candidates for a staff position in a Joint Service command. I checked the schools website and it doesn’t say what the student selection criteria are.

What we likely have here is a kool-aid drinking major/O-4 who is politically connected. Dimed the school & professor to his mentor, likely a senator or a very senior general.

I’m not sure what purpose it serves to suspend the professor. SOMEBODY approved the course he was teaching. This is like suspending the Sanford (Florida) police chief over the Trayvon-shooting. It’s vindictive.


14 posted on 05/11/2012 7:04:41 AM PDT by Tallguy (It's all 'Fun and Games' until somebody loses an eye!)
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To: Wildbill22

Because if they were formally identified, they’d be very shortlived.


15 posted on 05/11/2012 7:05:45 AM PDT by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com (nobody gives me warheads anyway))
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To: DJ Taylor

Nuking Mecca and Medina makes sense to me.
They are the festering holes where the infection comes to a head.


16 posted on 05/11/2012 7:06:52 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (End Obama's War On Freedom.)
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To: Wildbill22

Liberals are cowards.


17 posted on 05/11/2012 7:09:17 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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**** and suggested that the country might ultimately have to obliterate the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina without regard for civilian deaths,*****

Add Quom, Iran to that list! Jimmy Carter thought about bombing it back in 1979 but wimped out.


18 posted on 05/11/2012 7:18:18 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

How soon we forget:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1222755/posts


19 posted on 05/11/2012 7:26:04 AM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: DJ Taylor

Next to the Democratic Party, Islam is the gravest threat this nation faces.


20 posted on 05/11/2012 7:26:41 AM PDT by pallis
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