Humint Events Online: Christian Nutjobs

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Christian Nutjobs

are rampant at the Air Force Academy.
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) -- Less than two years after it was plunged into a rape scandal, the Air Force Academy is scrambling to address complaints that evangelical Christians wield so much influence at the school that anti-Semitism and other forms of religious harassment have become pervasive.

There have been 55 complaints of religious discrimination at the academy in the past four years, including cases in which a Jewish cadet was told the Holocaust was revenge for the death of Jesus and another was called a Christ killer by a fellow cadet.

The 4,300-student school recently started requiring staff members and cadets to take a 50-minute religious-tolerance class.
The reason I find this interesting is because there is a significant segment of the military that is I guess you could say militantly Christian. Of course these people would fall for 9/11 hook, line and sinker-- 9/11 fits their jingoistic world view too perfectly. But more importantly, some of the more extreme of this group might be just the sort of people that would frame Islamic terrorists in a terror attack such as 9/11 that would allow the US to "take the fight to the infidels" in the middle east.

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