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Wednesday, April 20, 2005

Your tax dollars at work breeding a new generation of brownshirts
Posted by Jill | 10:11 AM

It appears that the Air Force Academy is turning into an indoctrination center for a Christian American version of the Hitler Youth.

Emphases mine:

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.

[snip]

More than 90 percent of the cadets identify themselves as Christian. A cadet survey in 2003 found that half had heard religious slurs and jokes, and that many non-Christians believed Christians get special treatment.

"There were people walking up to someone and basically they would get in a conversation and it would end with, `If you don't believe what I believe you are going to hell,'" Vice Commandant Col. Debra Gray said.

[snip]

"They are deliberately trivializing the problem so that we don't have another situation the magnitude of the sex assault scandal. It is inextricably intertwined in every aspect of the academy," said Mikey Weinstein of Albuquerque, N.M., a 1977 graduate who has sent two sons to the school. He said the younger, Curtis, has been called a "filthy Jew" many times.

[snip]

The official academy newspaper runs a Christmas ad every year praising Jesus and declaring him the only savior.

[snip]

Two of the nation's most influential evangelical Christian groups, Focus on the Family and New Life Church, are headquartered in nearby Colorado Springs. Tom Minnery, an official at Focus on the Family, disputed claims that evangelical Christians are pushing an agenda at the academy, and complained that "there is an anti-Christian bigotry developing" at the school.


This is what we're dealing with, folks -- an increasingly powerful Christofascist movement which thinks that calling people "dirty Jews" and justifying the Holocaust as "revenge for Jesus" in a government military academy is not only OK, but that any efforts to stop harassment of practitioners of non-Christian religions is "anti-Christian bigotry."

This means that they really DO think that Jews are dirty and that the Holocause is revenge for Jesus. Religious my ass. These are mean, ugly, hateful people, and they have no business holding themselves as moral arbiters over cockroaches and rats, let alone Americans. These people are no better than the Taliban, they are no better than the Islamofascists they claim to be fighting. No, they haven't resorted to mass killings yet. But give them time. Last I heard, they were going to start with judges. I'm sure Jews are pretty high on the list too.
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