Air Force cadets snookered

[donsu]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/us/07muslim.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1202490101-Wml6XW1t/hgovNnwxYxlWQ


Speakers at Academy Said to Make False Claims


The Air Force Academy was criticized by Muslim and religious freedom organizations for playing host on Wednesday to three speakers who critics say are evangelical Christians falsely claiming to be former Muslim terrorists.

The three men were invited as part of a weeklong conference on terrorism organized by cadets at the academy’s Colorado Springs campus under the auspices of the political science department.

The three will be paid a total of $13,000 for their appearance, some of it from private donors, said Maj. Brett Ashworth, a spokesman for the academy.

The three were invited because “they offered a unique perspective from inside terrorism,” Major Ashworth said. The conference is to result in a report on methods to combat terrorism that will be sent to the Pentagon, members of Congress and other influential officials, he added.

Members of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a group suing the federal government to combat what it calls creeping evangelism in the armed forces, said it was typical of the Air Force Academy to invite born-again Christians to address cadets on terrorism rather than experts who could teach students about the Middle East.

“This stuff going on at the academy today is part of the endemic evangelical infiltration that continues,” said David Antoon, a 1970 academy graduate and a foundation member.
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week long conf. on terrorists - a whole week of kool aide

poor cadets will be willing to kill 'terrorists' without thinking about it when they graduate.

is the AF school turning into a school of americas copy?

[atreides1]

1. "is the AF school turning into a school of americas copy?"

No, not the SOA, more like a theocratic military academy, the only problem is that some of these boys and girls will have their hands to damn close to nukes.

By the way, Focus on the Family is just across the street from the AFA, and the commandant is a known zealot of the Christian persuasion!!!!!

[TooBigaTent]

2. Every time I read another piece about the Air Force academy and its evangelical

orientation I worry about the future.

Is this military branch that controls untold numbers of nuclear missles and bombers being groomed to bring about Armageddon?

Add in the preference for rape among the male AF cadets and you have a truly dangerous and worrisome group who should not be trusted with a slingshot, forget a nuclear arsenal.

[donsu]

3. agree

nt

[LeftinOH]

4. The US Air Force Academy.....losing its credibility, fast -thanks to Dobson

and his Christian Madrassah nearby.