Washington: General Martin Dempsey, the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has condemned a course taught against Islam at one of America’s top military schools as “totally objectionable,” Press TV reported.
According to the BBC, the story, Wired website fir unearthed the story, has been astonishing enough to enrage Dempsey.
The “Perspectives on Islam and Islamic Radicalism” course for senior officers was taught at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia, for a year.
Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Dooley, the instructor of the course, taught officers there was no such thing as moderate Islam and that they should consider the religion their enemy.
The course advocated “total war” against all the world’s Muslims, including possible nuclear attacks on the holy cities of Makkah and Madina and the wiping out of civilian populations.
The Pentagon has confirmed the course material found on their website is authentic.
Following the incident, Dempsey has ordered a full investigation into what other US military schools might be teaching about this religion.
“As far as I can see this is not intended in any sense as a rather sick academic exercise in stretching the bounds of what could be thought. It is actually what the officer teaching it believes,” said senior British journalist, Mark Mardell.
In other words, he said, the contents of the course were “completely nutty stuff that would disgrace the wilder fringes of the blogosphere.”
General Dempsey described the course as “counter to our values of appreciation for religious freedom and cultural awareness” and “just objectionable, academically irresponsible.”
It came to light when one of the officers on the course complained last month. There is now an investigation into how the course was approved and why it was part of the curriculum.
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