Defend your Freedom of Religion
Posted on 04/06/2013 4:40:05 AM PDT by markomalley
The Defense Department came under fire Thursday for a U.S. Army Reserve presentation that classified Catholics and Evangelical Protestants as “extremist” religious groups alongside al Qaeda and the Ku Klux Klan.
The presentation detailed a number of extremist threats within the U.S. military, including white supremacist groups, street gangs, and religious sects.
The presentation identified seventeen religious organizations in a slide titled “religious extremism.” They include al Qaeda, Hamas, the Filipino separatist group Abu Sayyaf, and the Ku Klux Klan, which the slide identifies as a Christian organization.
“Religious extremism is not limited to any single religion, ethnic group, or region of the world,” the slide explains, in language that closely resembles the text of a Wikipedia page on “extremism.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Yeah, all sincere Christians are enemies of the state. They will be dealt with by armored vehicles and drones.
Yeah, all sincere Christians are enemies of the state. They will be dealt with by armored vehicles and drones.
I guess I'll be going to heaven, with a pile of brass at my feet.
5.56mm
Good afternoon.
There will be a long line of us at the gates of Heaven.
I intend to contact my Congresswoman who is on the House Armed Services Committee and has a long history of evangelical political activism.
If other Freepers have Members of Congress on the House or Senate Armed Services Committee who are conservative evangelicals or Roman Catholics, it would be a good idea to do the same.
Stuff like this can and should be stopped.
SPLC and other such race and ethnic centered organizations are not looking to create a class free, and a race and ethnically blind society.
They want a society where those they deem as chosen get special treatment, special priviledges and special protection such as hate crimes.
Fact: Any crime against another should be a hate crime, but they want to limit special class to only those that are chosen as special. The rest are relegated to 2nd class status.
“It’s as if all the presenter did was download SPLC’s hard drives.”
Out of curiousity was the name and ethnic background of the presenter ever disclosed?
I believe this person is identified as a “she” but this is NOT a mistake by an underling. It fits a pattern.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jan/21/far-right-report-outrages-critics-of-federalism/
http://www.wnd.com/2009/12/11931
In case you missed it, ping!
You haven't heard me disagreeing with your points, Future Snake Eater. In fairness, however, there have been groups of people in the Army “looking out” for each other for a very long time ... at least back to the 1950s and 1960s when my father was an NCO, and probably much earlier. I've read stories about how groups of Southerners at West Point made a point of treating the sons of Northern generals horribly during MacArthur's time as a cadet.
I've seen good people get frustrated by that kind of in-group self-protection stuff and get out, not primarily on the racial issue, but on protecting and promoting friends regardless of standards. I'm thinking right now of a West Pointer who would have made a great senior officer, but got so frustrated by nonsense that he got out after his commitment was up and now works for a defense contractor where his abilities are appreciated. Many more examples of his situation could be cited.
What I've heard over and over again, however, is that once military personnel get out, they find situations in corporate life which are as bad if not worse. The Army's problems with political correctness are arguably less serious than those of the corporate world.
96 posted on 4/6/2013 12:00:13 PM by EricT.: “The worst EO briefing I ever had to attend in the USNR was presented by a junior enlisted African immigrant with a thick accent that was very had to understand. It was standard multi-cultural tripe.”
Understood. I've seen some bad ones too.
http://www.adfmedia.org/files/ExtremismPresentation.pdf
On page 12, it describes terrorist "recruitment" in this way:
"LURE PROSPECTS: Quietly talking about individual liberties, states' rights, and how, with your help, they can make the world a better place to live."
On page 24, it lists groups under "RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM."
#1 - Evangelical Christianity (U.S./Christian)
#10 Catholicism (U.S./Christian), ranked only two spots below the Ku Klux Klax.
The Huttaree is a militia group.
Thanks for filling me in.
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