Monday, August 26, 2013

Defense Department: Our Founding Fathers were Extremists

A Department of Defense teaching guide meant to fight extremism advises students that rather than “dressing in sheets” modern-day radicals “will talk of individual liberties, states’ rights, and how to make the world a better place,” and describes 18th-century American patriots seeking freedom from the British as belonging to “extremist ideologies.” 
The guide comes from documents obtained by Judicial Watch and is authored by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute, a DoD-funded diversity training center. 
Under a section titled “extremist ideologies,” the document states, “In U.S. history, there are many examples of extremist ideologies and movements. The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule and the Confederate states who sought to secede from the Northern states are just two examples.” 
Besides a brief reference to 9/11 and another to the Sudanese civil war, the guide makes no mention of Islamic extremism. (emphasis mine)
The guide also repeatedly tells readers to use the Southern Poverty Law Center as a resource in identifying hate groups. The SPLC has previously come under fire for its leftist bias and tendency to identify conservative organizations such as the American Family Association as hate groups.


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3 comments:

BOSMAN said...

Jeesh...and all this time I thought our founding fathers were Patriots...WHO KNEW?

Anonymous said...

Hard to believe it has come to level of ridiculousness.

-Martha

Katrina L. Lantz said...

Makes me angry.