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The latest from VMI, which is apparently rearranging its conference plans as we speak.
1 posted on 02/10/2011 8:01:07 AM PST by La Lydia
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VMI update


2 posted on 02/10/2011 8:03:16 AM PST by La Lydia
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To: La Lydia

I guess that VMI has never heard of the Al Andulus Caliphate...


3 posted on 02/10/2011 8:03:46 AM PST by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: La Lydia

hhmmm...we’ll see...


4 posted on 02/10/2011 8:05:03 AM PST by SE Mom (Proud mom of an Iraq war combat vet)
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VMI update


5 posted on 02/10/2011 8:06:04 AM PST by La Lydia
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To: La Lydia

VMI: Training officers for the Dhimmi Army since 2011. I always get extremely offended with some educrat puts out a press release like this: “No, no, you little people don’t understand what we really were trying to accomplish.”

Just cancel the @)!($* thing.


6 posted on 02/10/2011 8:08:13 AM PST by Yet_Again
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To: La Lydia
As part of that grant, “East Meets West” was designed specifically to supplement the study of Arabic language with complex information about history, culture, politics, economics, trade, and development, along with a strong component that provides hope for future relations between the East and the West PC garbage about the many contributions Muslims have made to the West and 'our' culture in addition to the role the evil white man has played in our relations. Were it not for Western Europeans all would be good today.
9 posted on 02/10/2011 8:16:46 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: La Lydia
Regrettably, a blogger portrayed this as a “celebration” of a “Muslim invasion”

Fact 1: Tariq ibn Ziyad 'crossing the Strait of Gibraltar' WAS a muslim invasion of Europe.

Fact 2: The materials for the conference originally stated that it's purpose was to 'celebrate' this time where muslims, Jews and Christians 'thrived together'.

I wonder if the writer would care to explain what, exactly, he finds 'regrettable' about a 'blogger' telling the TRUTH about the conference.

12 posted on 02/10/2011 8:30:05 AM PST by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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To: La Lydia
“East Meets West” was designed specifically to supplement the study of Arabic language with complex information about history, culture, politics, economics, trade, and development...

I think I's startin' to unnerstan' the sichyashun now.

Turns out, th' real important-like stuff they'se tryin' to accomm-plish is jus' too darn 'complex' fer the likes a me t' figger out!

Why, if they'da jus' tol' me that frum th' git-go I never wooda raized such a fuss over this ol' bidniss!

14 posted on 02/10/2011 8:38:04 AM PST by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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As we used to say back in the Old Corps (when we really had a Rat Line), BOHICA.

Looks like the EESH (Evil Elves of Smith Hall) are at it again.

16 posted on 02/10/2011 10:18:21 AM PST by CatoRenasci (Ceterum Censeo Persae Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
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To: La Lydia
Nobody is arguing that having future military leaders learn the Arabic language or learn about Arab history is inappropriate. It makes a lot of sense.

Unfortunately, the conference as described by VMI itself went beyond legitimate educational purposes and proferred a pro-Arab agenda that distorted the real historical events. And while the early period of the Cordoba Caliphate was relatively tolerant for its time and place in history, the West in general, and the U.S. in particular have long surpassed the levels of "tolerance" shown in that Caliphate. So the idea that we have something to learn about peace and tolerance from a culture that was both less peaceful and less tolerant is simply absurd.

Unless, of course, the conference was going to advance the concept that Cordoba was more tolerant than we are today, which is how the program sounded. And THAT is a historical lie that needs to be refuted.

Maybe present this conference in the Taliban and convince them that they need to look back 1100 or so years in history to find a time when they were a bit more civilized. But we are already far beyond that.

17 posted on 02/10/2011 11:21:30 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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