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Suspension was a failure to encourage critical thinking, says retired admiral
An RAF cadet has been suspended from his officer training course after branding Islam the greatest threat to Britain.
The trainee officer, who was on a 24-week officer training programme at RAF Cranwell in Lincolnshire, reportedly made the comment during a debate on national security involving around 50 fellow cadets shortly before Easter.
He was immediately removed from the course and is currently under investigation.
An RAF spokesman said: “We are aware of an alleged incident of inappropriate behaviour involving a cadet at RAF Cranwell. An investigation is ongoing. We are unable to comment further.”
The suspension drew sharp criticism from Chris Parry, a retired Rear Admiral, who described it as a failure to encourage proper debate among young members of the Armed Forces.
He added: “If I’d asked that question and got that answer I would have also asked the cadet to expand on his thinking and got some critical thinking going rather than suspend him.”
The veteran officer criticised those involved in suspending the officer cadet, saying a distinction should have been drawn between Islam and radical extremism, and questioning whether it was necessary to suspend the trainee.
Mr Parry added that he was “furious” about the handling of the incident, and argued that training systems should allow future officers to articulate and refine their views on sensitive topics rather than penalise them outright.
“Clearly Islamic extremism is the issue and not Islam, but how are young people expected to develop critical thinking around these complex issues if they are shut down in this way?” Mr Parry asked GB News.
“If this cadet had answered ‘the far-Right’ I doubt he would have been suspended.”
Islamist terrorism in Britain
There have long been concerns about Islamist terrorism in Britain. During the terror attacks on July 7, 2005, four suicide bombers killed 52 people and injured more than 770 after detonating their devices in Underground trains and a bus. --->READ MORE HERE
What if what everyone assumes is true is actually false?
An RAF cadet has been suspended for thoughtcrime. The Daily Mail reported Saturday that the offending wrongthinker gained this suspension “after he said Islam poses the greatest security threat to the UK while taking part in a training exercise.” Retired rear admiral Chris Parry, who objected to the poor devil’s suspension, noted in passing that “if this cadet had answered ‘the far-Right’ I doubt he would have been suspended.” Indeed. And so the enforced fantasy and wishful thinking still prevail.
The cadet’s inexcusable wrongthink not only got him suspended; it “led to him being kicked off the officer-training course, pending an investigation.” The British air force has actually “launched a probe into the young cadet’s remarks at RAF Cranwell, where the next generation of officers are trained.”
Indignant, Parry “accused the air force of shutting down the ‘critical thinking’ of new officers around controversial issues and said the cadet should be reinstated.” He explained that if he had been teaching the class where the outrageous, offensive remark had been made, he would have handled it quite differently: “If I’d asked that question and got that answer I would have also asked the cadet to expand on his thinking and got some critical thinking going rather than suspend him.”
What Parry termed “critical thinking” was actually the enforcement of the British political and media establishment’s preferred fictions. “Clearly,” he said with a confidence that his ignorance did not justify, “Islamic extremism is the issue and not Islam, but how are young people expected to develop critical thinking around these complex issues if they are shut down in this way?”
Well, sure. British authorities should indeed not shut down honest discussion of the nature and magnitude of the threat of Islamic jihad and Sharia. At very least, this poor fellow’s suspension should be lifted long enough for Rear Admiral Parry to try to explain to him what he thinks is the difference between “Islam” and “Islamic extremism.”
“We know,” Parry said, again displaying a confidence that was as unshakeable as it was unjustified, “that Islam is not a threat, rather it is extremist elements, and this appears to have been a missed opportunity to discuss that for fear of causing offence.”
Could Parry actually show from mainstream Islamic theological sources the difference between Islam and “Islamic extremism”? Could he show us a sect or school of Islamic jurisprudence that is not political, supremacist, expansionist, and violent, and a Muslim-majority country that has implemented a vision of Islam that allows for non-Muslims to be granted rights equal to those granted to Muslims? --->READ MORE HERE
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