OT: US Military course advocates nuking Mecca

It looks like Wilhelm has a lot more influence than anyone suspected:

'Pentagon suspends course after study materials posted online
suggested that Mecca and Medina may have to be obliterated'

'A course for US military officers has been teaching that America's
enemy is Islam in general and suggesting that the country might
ultimately have to obliterate the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and
Medina without regard for civilian deaths, following second world war
precedents of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima'

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/11/us-military-course-islam-enemy

Rest of article reproduced below:

The Pentagon suspended the course in late April when a student
objected to the material. The FBI also changed some agent training
last year after discovering that it, too, was critical of Islam.

The teaching in the military course was counter to repeated assertions
by US officials over the past decade that America is at war against
Islamic extremists, not the religion itself.

"They hate everything you stand for and will never coexist with you,
unless you submit," the instructor, Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Dooley,
said in a presentation last July for the course at Joint Forces Staff
College in Norfolk, Virginia. The college, for professional military
members, teaches mid-level officers and government civilians on
subjects related to planning and executing war.

Dooley also presumed, for the purposes of his theoretical war plan,
that the Geneva conventions that set standards of armed conflict, are
"no longer relevant".

He adds: "This would leave open the option once again of taking war to
a civilian population wherever necessary (the historical precedents of
Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki being applicable to the Mecca and
Medina destruction decision point)."

His war plan suggests possible outcomes such as "Saudi Arabia
threatened with starvation ... Islam reduced to cult status".

A copy of the presentation was obtained and posted online by
Wired.com's Danger Room blog. The college did not respond to the
Associated Press' requests for copies of the documents, but a Pentagon
spokesman authenticated the documents. Dooley still works for the
college, but is no longer teaching, said the joint chiefs of staff
chairman, General Martin Dempsey. Dooley has refused to comment.

A military service record summary provided by army human resources at
Fort Knox, Kentucky, shows that Dooley was commissioned as a second
lieutenant upon graduation from the US military academy at West Point,
New York, in May 1994. He has served tours in Germany, Bosnia, Kuwait
and Iraq. He has numerous awards including a Bronze Star medal, the
fourth-highest US combat award.

In what he termed a model for a campaign to force a transformation of
Islam, Dooley called for "a direct ideological and philosophical
confrontation with Islam", with the presumption that Islam is an
ideology rather than just a religion.

He further asserted that Islam has already declared war on the west,
and the US specifically.

"It is therefore illogical" to continue with the current US strategy,
which Dooley said presumes there is a way of finding common ground
with Islamic religious leaders, without "waging near total war".

The course on Islam had been taught since 2004, but was not part of
the required core curriculum. It was offered five times a year, with
about 20 students each time.

Though Dooley has been teaching at the college since August 2010, it
was unclear when he took on that particular class, called Perspectives
on Islam and Islamic Radicalism.

The joint staff suspended the course after it had received a student
complaint, and within days Dempsey ordered all service branches to
review their training to ensure other courses do not use anti-Islamic
material.

On Thursday, Dempsey said the material in the Norfolk course was
counter to American "appreciation for religious freedom and cultural
awareness".

"It was just totally objectionable, against our values, and it wasn't
academically sound," Dempsey said. "This wasn't about ... pushing back
on liberal thought; this was objectionable, academically
irresponsible."

In his July 2011 presentation on "counterjihad", Dooley asserted that
the rise of what he called a "military Islam/Islamist resurgence"
compels the US to consider extreme measures, "unconstrained by fears
of political incorrectness".

He described his purpose as generating "dynamic discussion and
thought", while noting that his ideas and proposals are not official
US government policy and cannot be found in any current official
defence department documents.

A Pentagon inquiry is seeking to determine whether someone above the
professor's level is supposed to approve course materials and whether
that approval process was followed in this case, said Colonel Dave
Lapan, a spokesman for Dempsey.

The problem of negative portrayals of Islam in federal government is
not new. A six-month review the FBI launched into agent training
material uncovered 876 offensive or inaccurate pages that had been
used in 392 presentations, including a PowerPoint slide that said the
bureau can sometimes bend or suspend the law in counterterror
investigations.
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