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.”
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My bet is that the author was gay.
"Grand Kleagle" Democrat Senator Robert Byrd
It would be enlightening to see a picture and be given the name of the individual creating and presenting the subject “information” piece.
Even Jews are listed there also.
It might be Lt. Col. Timothy Challans and Major Brian Stuckert.
Let’s see the slide from 2005.
Since when is Islamophobia a religion? It's PC term to demean anyone who doesn't agree with the officially-approved opinions about Islam.
Why is the Muslim Brotherhood on the list? I though Obama liked the Muslim Brotherhood.
At least some of these presentations **DO** get prepared at a local level. I know because I've seen it — though from my experience, I've seen them get prepared by senior NCOs close to retirement who have been selected because they can “speak their minds” without worrying about career reprisals, or more rarely by mid-level officers, typically captains or majors.
I've seen good presentations and bad ones. Some really good ones included a briefing by a Japanese American World War II vet who was so angry at Japan after Pearl Harbor that he ended up making the US Army his career, and a speech by a retired black senior officer, a Vietnam vet, who talked about how he was so angry with the perception that “black soldiers won't fight” during the Vietnam War that he made a point of being the toughest soldier he could be during multiple tours in Vietnam so people wouldn't be able to say bad things about “black cowards” in uniform.
And then there have been some others which were a lot worse.
Yes, there are a lot of brainwashed idiots in America and some of them join the military. But I hope one lesson that the “politically correct crowd” takes out of this incident is that when they do bad things, they have a whole audience of uniformed people watching who may sit quietly and listen politely and then get copies and distribute them.
My personal view is that I've seen far less real racism in and around military installations than in the civilian world. That's a good thing for the military — having objective standards for performance and a culture of personal and group discipline is much easier to implement in the military than in many civilian career fields.
If people can accept the principle that the only colors which matter are “red, white, and blue,” I'm fine with that.
Is this how they will get the military to enforce their agenda? Just label us as extremists, weapons dealers, or druggies and it dehumanizes the target enough to allow abuse.
“And it won’t be the last. Soon they’ll be confiscating our Bibles along with our guns. Can’t have bitter clingers.”
Yes, Christians are the new Juden.
I wonder how many Christians are physically and spiritually prepared to go Warsaw ghetto at the next gun grab?
Lexington-Concord and Waco both started with a gun grab.
Good morning Old Sarge. I almost thought I had written that reply, but hadn't even clicked on the thread. You hit the nail on the head with the last part of that sentence.
Have you noticed that some people are not listening to you? This is happening more frequently on FR, someone who is really an expert and knows what they are talking about posts a comment that debunks some particular line of nonsense. The result is usually either an immediate ad hominem attack or they pretend that you do not exist. Most of these people never read the article, they just pounce on the headline. I fondly remember the days when we recognized folks who knew what they were talking about, read what they had to say, and learned from it. Not much of that going on these days.
Exactly. And that’s how the same multiple-times-debunked tripe will continue to raise its ugly head on FR for ages.
The DHS ammo purchase threads are a great example.
They know the jig's just about up.... Too many people have caught on to who and what they really are... It's like before 'global warming' started to crash and burn - they started putting out more and more frantic warnings. Each more bizarre than the one before... and that's what's happening here.
Liberal elites are losing their grip on culture lies and they're starting to panic.
Another one of these gophers just popped up out of its hole, along with some vanity about ammo that mentions 1.6 billion rounds. I wonder when it will hit 2 billion?
The SPLC created the concept and name for the 'vast right wing conspiracy' - a political scam for the Clinton war room - a package of lies about white middle-class Christians.
The SPLC and Clinton War room staff never had to prove the lies against middle class Christians because it was a whisper campaign. If Hillary hasn't spilled the beans prematurely that totalitarian move might have worked. It was being peddled to top cops in the country at the time (cops who were FBI trained as city contract people). I suspect the core of liberal elite thug power comes from the SPLC. A group that once had an ethical purpose but has been corrupted... Where is the Washington Post - where is FoxNews or the New York Times?
Colo. undersheriff warns: State police, Homeland Security to target Christians
I know because I've seen it — though from my experience, I've seen them get prepared by senior NCOs close to retirement who have been selected because they can “speak their minds” without worrying about career reprisals, or more rarely by mid-level officers, typically captains or majors.
Now that I'm up at the strategic level Army, we have dedicated people for this task of briefing and generally handling EO stuff. Seems like a GROSS waste of manpower to me, but the Army doesn't give a s**t what I think anyway. In my Infantry days, it was usually the most un-PC NCO we had who got tasked to be the company EO rep--it was practically a joke, but a joke that had to be taken seriously regardless, which made it even more head-shaking in its incongruity.
If people can accept the principle that the only colors which matter are “red, white, and blue,” I'm fine with that.
I wish that was so, but it isn't. PC has its hooks in the military (especially the Army) good and deep. It's all small groups of special interests and skin colors and (now) sexual orientations.
I once held to the idea that we were all green, but I've seen first-hand how that is NOT the case. Hell, I had a (black, female, VERY entitled) major in my ROTC program outright say that's not the case.
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