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 ...
Then there’s Director of Terrorism Studies at the Combating Terrorism Center at the U.S. Military Academy Arie Perliger’s “Challengers from the Sidelines: Understanding America’s Violent Far-Right.” In it he includes pro-life Americans as terrorists and cites the SPLC as credible authorities.
That’s quite a bit more than a “slide”.
Sounds like liberalism. The basic premise here is that extremists are people that think they are right and everyone else is wrong. almost all religions and political groups meet this definition. Therefore virtually all people on the planet are extremists by this definition
The list as presented lists groups dedicated to extremism with two exceptions. It singles out two groups, Catholicism and Evangelical Christianity, both of which are religious groups that are not dedicated to extremism, (but they may have subgroups that are).
You don't understand that?
Don't think there are extremist evangelicals? obviously you haven't been watching the news about that church that pickets funerals.
You make my point. The list DIDN'T single out the "church that pickets funerals". It DID single out Evangelical Christianity.
And have that..."um"... stutter of yours checked out. I hear they can cure that now.
Okay?
:)
Atheists are the most rabid animals of religious zealots.
So, according to the slide deck, soldiers cannot be Christians of any kind including Catholics because they are forbidden from participating, fund raising, etc. with “extremist organizations”.
What would Jesus be saying to these people? I know he would be fighting with words rather than swords, but we always need to remember that Christ won in the end -- even though it looked like he lost as he died on the Cross.
Headline definitely one to raise the most ‘fear’.
First line says it was from a ‘Reserve Unit Briefing’, kind of like the local ‘R’ dogcatcher agreeing with ‘Global warming’ and the headline reads “Republicans accept Global Warming”.
Would expect to find this in the Washington Post rather than Washington Times.
Ummm...they mispelled Mormon
That would be the traditional Jewish greeting, “Shalom aleichem”. Usually the Jew being addressed will then contradict by saying, “Aleichem shalom!”
Isolated incident my ass. This is the third time (once by DHS and now twice by DoD) now that these assholes have labeled their political opponents as potential enemies of the state. The Question is why are the GOP members of the Armed Services Committee not making heads roll and firing these people?
This is what happens when you give a demoKKKrat president 8 years to reshape our governmnt and/or military to his own liking. Anybody who was too righteous or too holy to vote for Mitt Romney should take note.....
Offensive and ridiculous.
Of course Catholics are extremists: look at the last two Popes they have elected, Benedict and Francis. Both reject modernizing Catholic faith, belief, doctrine and dogma to align it with modern revealations that Jesus was a married homosexual/bisexual male with illegitamate children. (sarc)
And Christian Evangelicals also hold those same extremist beliefs. (sarc)
Of course Islam, which kills homosexuals and females who look at a man they are not married to as adulters are just “doing their own cultural thing that modern secularists wont discriminate against.” NOT sarc
When’s the last time an “extremist evangelical” flew a large airplane into a building or sawed someone’s head off?
I can’t help but appreciate the irony that my communist-made rifle may one day be forced into action against Communists in America.
Not something I want, but the road ahead is awful foggy right now. Best to be prepared for anything.
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.
No. You are thinking of the Hutterites.
I thought that is what this inaccurate and specious collection of “radicals” was referring to.
Are the Hutteree” a separate group?
By The way, have you noticed the plethora of negative programs on the History Channel, The Learning Channel, NatGeo and others?
You know, the ones supposedly “revealing” the evil religious people, such as “Inside the Hutterites”, “Amish mafia”, “Breaking Amish”, “Cults in America”, etc?
And of course, the waves of “alternatives to the bible” series like, “Ancient Aliens”, “UFO Files”, “American Hauntings”, The Forbidden Books of the Bible”, “Celebrity Ghost Stories”, “Psychics in Law Enforcement”, “Finding Atlantis” etc etc etc.
When they finally put on a series that is actually about the Bible, the ratings go through the roof. So, IMNSHO, there is an agenda here, and it’s not money or ratings. If it were, there would be more series like the Bible and less trying to discredit it.
Just Sayin’.
Well at least we know Washington is starting to fear the population enough to target the vast majority of Americans as “Extremist”.
Of course this is troubling and were I a military officer once i got done laughing Id start thinking about how i couldn’t follow an order to open fire on my own people. But i would tell no one less I never be placed in the situation to refuse.
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