The course, taught in one of the main American military academies, is absolutely unacceptable, as U.S. chairman of the joint committee of chief staff Martin Dempsey argued.
The course brainwashed senior officers by suggesting prejudiced ideas that moderate Islam does not exist and that the religion must be viewed as hostile. The course proposed ideas such as total war on Islam, including nuclear attacks on holy cities such as Mecca and Medina and wiping out civilians.
The Pentagon acknowledged that the program and other course materials, published on the U.S. Department of Defense website, are authentic.
Gen. Dempsey gave orders to do the full investigation to find out what else is taught about Islam in other elite military academies, the BBC reports. The course was taught for a year in Norfolk, Va., and was closed a month ago after Dempsey’s complaint.
As Dempsey argued, the course contradicts principles of religious and cultural tolerance and freedom and practice of religion and culture. He added that the course is absolutely unacceptable and irresponsible from scientific and academic points of view.
Information about the content came to light after one of the students complained. The investigation aims to discover how this course was approved and included in the educational program in the first place.
A colonel who taught the course was removed from teaching but has not been fired yet. The Pentagon hopes that the results from the investigation will be available in the end of May.
As BBC editor Mark Mardell pointed out, it appears very strange that those senior officers, or anyone else who attended the lectures, did not feel that it was important to tell anyone that there was something wrong with the course.
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