Double-talk on Pentagon's war against Islam course

Max Eternity - Last year, Wired Magazine broke a story about FBI teachers that mainstream Muslims and Islam were "violent, radical."  And this week it has come to light in the mainstream American media, with US officials claiming to condemn the Pentagons anti-Islam course:

FBI Teaches Agents: ‘Mainstream’ Muslims Are ‘Violent, Radical’

Wired.com - The FBI is teaching its counterterrorism agents that “main stream” [sic] American Muslims are likely to be terrorist sympathizers; that the Prophet Mohammed was a “cult leader”; and that the Islamic practice of giving charity is no more than a “funding mechanism for combat.”  Read more.

Top U.S. Officer: Stop This ‘Total War’ on Islam Talk

America’s top military officer condemned in the strongest possible terms a Defense Department course that taught troops to prep for a “total war” on Islam using “Hiroshima”-style tactics.

“It was totally objectionable, against our values and it wasn’t academically sound,” Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters at a Pentagon press conference on Thursday. The instructor responsible for the course, Army Lt. Col. Matthew A. Dooley, is “no longer in a teaching status,” Dempsey added — but he is still employed at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Va.  Read more.

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