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Judi Lynn

(160,516 posts)
Wed Apr 25, 2012, 05:43 PM Apr 2012

Military reviewing training material to remove anti-Islamic content

Source: CNN

Military reviewing training material to remove anti-Islamic content
By Chris Lawrence
April 25th, 2012 02:42 PM ET

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs has ordered the entire U.S. military to remove all anti-Islamic content from its training materials.

Gen. Martin Dempsey sent a letter to the directors of military education institutions, combatant commanders and the heads of all branches of service instructing them to review all relevant training materials to make sure it does not have anti-Islamic content.

The order was precipitated by an elective course called "Perspectives on Islam and Islamic Radicalism," offered at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia.

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were inflammatory," Pentagon spokesman Capt. John Kirby said. The material included a statement that Kirby described as "the United States is at war with Islam, and that was presented as an assertion. We are at war with terrorism, specifically al Qaeda ... so that's one example."


Read more: http://security.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/25/military-reviewing-training-material-to-remove-anti-islamic-content/

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Military reviewing training material to remove anti-Islamic content (Original Post) Judi Lynn Apr 2012 OP
This should have been done a long time ago. JDPriestly Apr 2012 #1
My thoughts exactly. Why the heck did they wait until kas125 Apr 2012 #2

kas125

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2. My thoughts exactly. Why the heck did they wait until
Wed Apr 25, 2012, 07:58 PM
Apr 2012

we've been in Afghanistan for ten years to do this? Ugh.

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