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• It only happened days ago, but the Colorado Court of Appeals’ decision to throw out Colorado’s Day of Prayer on the grounds that it’s unconstitutional, is already having an unexpected impact.

• Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, says the ruling means that the U.S. Air Force Academy should cancel its Annual Prayer Breakfast and related events to comply with the ruling. While federal institutions don’t normally need to comply with state laws in this way, Weinstein says the AFA should have to, because the military school already stated that it was following state law when it forbade same-sex couples from marrying on campus. (See “Wedding Bell Blues.”)

• Same-sex marriage is illegal in Colorado. Under a directive of the Department of Defense, same-sex marriages are only allowed on military campuses in states where the ceremonies are legal.

• But if the AFA is following state law when it forbids same-sex ceremonies, Weinstein reasons, than it should also follow the state’s lead in canceling government-sponsored religious events. Alternately, Weinstein says, the AFA could simply revert its position and reassert its right to operate outside of state law, by allowing same-sex marriages on the campus.

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• [Dooley's] views are not official army doctrine by any means, and he has likely reached the end of his service career. However, Dooley’s views are based on neo-conservative ideology and co-mingle with fundamentalist ire and apocalyptic yearning. This is troubling not only for the conduct of an already vexing war but also for political and constitutional reasons.Neo-conservatism has a long connection to the US military. This may be initially puzzling, as most neo-conservatives skillfully avoided military service during the Vietnam War and their newer followers have only a somewhat closer connection to actual service.

  Yet the neo-conservatives were important in revitalizing the military after Vietnam. They instilled philosophical grounding and charged the military with vital missions around the world, including ones that continue to this day.

• The message is put forth in scholarly articles, on talk radio, and even from the pulpit – the latter two being closely tied in the US -sharia law was said to be on the rise, even in rural America. (Several US states, mostly with large fundamentalist populations, are mulling over, or have passed, laws prohibiting the use of sharia.) The West must defend Judeo-Christian civilization and the US must provide the vanguard, main force, and finance, all at once. The template of good and evil had been formed in the public mind during World War II, if not earlier, and an updated enemy simply had to be entered.

• One can live a devout Christian life without encountering much of this millenarian strand, but it is there, especially in militant fundamentalism, which sees the world entering a new stage – a final one. An impending war will bring the End Times. This cataclysm is something that the faithful can and must encourage because it is part of the divine plan as revealed in scripture, though imaginative interpretations are needed to see it.

• War with Islam fits into this plan along with restoring ancient Israel’s boundaries and rebuilding the Temple, which of course entails destroying the present structure there – the al-Aqsa mosque. This in turn will lead to total war between Islam and Christianity. [3]Neo-conservatism has substantial influence in US foreign policy as recent and mostly regrettable events have shown. Apocalyptic thinking, the neo-cons’ junior and heretofore relatively silent partner, is not as uncommon as may be thought. It is heard often enough on religious broadcasts, radio and television in many parts of the US, and its tracts have their own sections in major bookstores.

  It is not clear how extensive apocalyptic thinking is in the officer corps, which is charged to act for no higher authority than the American people and for no greater end than their security.

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we known many things about you mikey. we know you love the arab muslem sand niggers and hate Lord Jesus and Christians. We know you are a kike jew lawyer with a big mouth and uppity attitude. we know the commie pinko reporters write whatever you tell them to write because you are a doomed jew prick. and we know where you live and travel and everything. and we know you hate America which is a nation founded up on Jesus our Savior PERIOD. Poor Kikey Whineshit now you scream and howl about our brave Army teaching the only answer to islam sand niggery. Which is to drop nukes on muslems cities and the terorists living there which is all the populations weather they be islam children or grown ups its all the same. all muslems are terorists its in there blood. just like jewblood loves only money and betraying trechery as you framed and murdered Jesus. you just can’t help yourself jewboy Kikey. Any more than the muslems can. blood does as blood does. Nuke All The a-rabs Now should be our Army’s battle cry and no. 1 order of there day. Which it was fine and dandy until you shoved your big jew nose into there war business. The Army has it right and now you try to stop it? you don’t have long and you won’t. It is always comforting to know as a patriotic American Christian that you will burn forever in the fire ovens of hell in unending torture with your muslem scum pals and your Military Religous Foundation fools and your ugly Whineshit kike wife and jew piglet children.

(name withheld)

Dear “patriotic American Christian,” as you describe yourself,

I’ve been keeping track. I’m sure you and your mother will be proud to learn that your message to the MRFF contains more incorrect statements, more misspelled words, more punctuation errors, more ahistorical “facts,” more pathetic dribble and less logic than any of the many silly messages we’ve received from your brethren in the fraternity of I-have-no-idea-what-being-a-Christian-truly-means.

While I’ll keep watching for something that tops this and promise to let you know if you should return the dunce cap, at least for now I pray it gives you and mom something to hoist a beer over. As you say, “blood does what blood does.”

Mike Farrell

Please forward this to MR WEINSTEIN, SIR i normally do not get too upset about things that people wright, but while i understand what your organization is trying to do and respect it. I sir do not respect your malicious statement about fundamentalist christians I AM a christian, and an active member of the armed forces, those which are at this very moment fighting to keep YOU and your FAMILY safe, so while i don’t need an apology i would please sir certainly ask that you be a little more considerate of your statements towards those of us that are active duty and christian. thank you sir. my email is (email address withheld)

(name withheld)

Dear (name withheld),

Thank you for contacting the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) with your concerns and your polite correspondence. You are amongst the few that have contacted us in a civil tone and for this we appreciate it. Again, thank you.

As Mikey wrote to you, he is currently busy attending his daughter’s graduation.

I have been asked to respond to you as an ordained minister in the Assemblies of God and a member of the Advisory Board of MRFF.

First and foremost, we are not anti-Christian. We have the support of the California Council of Churches/IMPACT, military Chaplains, retired and active duty military personnel from of all the branches, individual churches and Christians that volunteer and financially back MRFF.

As a Christian I can feel your pain in the words you wrote and I would like to address that. If you could be a little more specific on what has touched you so deeply, I would be more than willing to help you understand where MRFF stands on that issue.

I look forward to hearing from you.

In the meantime, may God bless your socks off!

Pastor Joan

“One Family’s Courageous War”

OMG – STILL putting your family out there, huh? You remind me of John Edwards.

You are one self-centered coward jew, that’s for sure!

Why don’t you run for a political office? You’d be a shoe-in for sure! You and BO, with all your Nobel prizes and nominations, would be fantastic butt-buddies.

Have a paranoid weekend!

(name and e mail address withheld)

Mikey, (Please forward to interested parties.)

You know, there is something very important about receiving hate mail. Without seeing it, even hardened old military guys like me could simply not believe in the levels of Cranial Constipation to be found in such large quantities.

Sure, I know receiving a few hundred or even thousand letters of this sort would seem a drop in the bucket compared to the millions of people in America. But, sadly, these letters are projectable against the base of retard Christians and even sadder, represent a huge slice of the population and growing steadily.

I believe we are on that long downward spiral that seems to have consumed the many nations wherein religion has bastardized all forms of government and caused the downfall of their civilizations.

Ancient Greece, Rome, Persia, India Pakistan, China and many others succumbed to the siren call of absolute religion known primarily through archaeology and some written records. Many failed as the religion of those who were captured as slaves spread to the captors. Others were conquered by religious movements. Just a few of those major population centers that succumbed to religious hegemony:

Ancient Egypt
Ancient Greece
Ancient Near East
Byzantine and Ottoman
Etruscan
Hittites
Indus Civilization
Islamic Civilization
Maya Civilization
Mesopotamia
Moche Civilization
Olmec Civilization
Persian Empire
Roman Empire
Tiahuanaco
Vikings

Is America on that track? You bet. As the numbers and intensity of Dominionist Christianity grow, a palpable sense of discomfort slowly transmogrifying into fear is beginning to grip alert and perceptive Americans. Once Dominion Christianity is able to insert sufficient numbers of operatives into federal, state and local governments, which is not a distant possibility but a very real current threat, then it’s a short trip to theocracy. There are those Christian leaders who are today openly endorsing theocratic rule in America and the abrogation of the constitution in favor of Biblical Law. Many, probably a majority in Congress and state legislatures are Dominionists.

The downfall of other civilizations began the same way as is now happening to us. Disbelief that our old time religion is rapidly building up a corps of mindless supplicants who will obey, to the letter, the commission of any form of violence necessary to crown Jesus as God of America. Jesus wouldn’t hurt us would He? Actually, no. But his mind conditioned followers have no such prohibition.

The case for Theoocratic take-over is plain and documented. This is why MRFF and others who have vested interests in monitoring and eventually defending against such an eventuality must now redouble their efforts to identify and isolate those who are most likely to break surface first.

Good luck to us as we will need it.

Rick

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Islam and US are not at war, except in the minds of ignorant people. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are parts of the Abrahamic Message of Peace and Tolerance. In the US constitution, the separation of church and state is a foundational principle. In my opinion, the Founding Fathers were wise enough to put this in the Constitution, in order to safe-guard US from fanatics and bigots (who believe in the righteousness of their faith with the exclusion of all others). I, as a US Citizen took Oath to Protect and Guard this Principle. As a Muslim in America, I practice my Faith in which my Oaths are sacrosanct in Sight of God. Therefore, my loyalty and my life is dedicated to serving my adopted homeland. Its safety and security is my sacred duty. So, the minuscule amount of bigotry, which is present in all nations will not deter me from standing up for America and its principles, in all places including my nation of birth, Pakistan. That is why, I have made it my mission to show the true face of America to the Muslim world. A face of justice, equality, liberty, embedded in a core of compassion for all humanity. Our true self comes out in times of stress, like the time a little girl was stuck in a drilling shaft in the south. It takes time for American goodness to shine through the curtain of fanaticism, however, I believe, “we shall overcome…” America is represented by characters like Atticus Finch of “To kill a Mocking Bird,” NOT, Rev.Jones of Florida. I came to America in 1960. I had $70, a suitcase, and a head full of dreams. I worked hard and America rewarded me. I have an A.B., a B.S., two Masters and a Ph.D. and a diploma from MIT. I gave back to America, a Physician, a Surgeon, and a Lawyer, my sons, Dr. (name withheld), Dr. (name withheld), and (name withheld), J.D. We are the silent majority of Muslim Americans. We serve and do not complain. But, when people like yourself and your institution stand-up for us we say, “Thank you,” from the depths of our hearts.

Thanks for standing-up for me.

With Deep Regards,

(Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer of a large Pharmaceuticals firm based in the US, name withheld)

• Hit with a string of ugly incidents, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos on Thursday ordered a timeout for the service’s 200,000 troops so they can stage a one-day war on unethical behavior.

  Lapses in recent months include units sporting Nazi-style flags, a hazing that led to a Marine’s suicide in Afghanistan, troops urinating on dead Taliban fighters and a continuing problem with sexual assaults in the ranks.

• Two groups of Marines from Pendleton also were charged with war crimes arising from civilian killings in Iraq, including the slaying of 24 men, women and children in Haditha in 2005. Those incidents led to a tightening of the rules of engagement on the battlefield.

  And last week a Marine Corps sergeant in his ninth year of service, Gary Stein of Murrieta, was drummed out of the Marine Corps under other-than-honorable conditions for labeling President Barack Obama “the enemy” and similarly inflammatory remarks he posted on Facebook.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MRFF Contact: Bekki Miller
Tel. (337) 356-8696
bekki.miller@militaryreligiousfreedom.org

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF: http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/) is disgusted by the shocking revelation that officers from all four branches of the U.S. Military were instructed at the Joint Forces Staff College (JFSC) in Norfolk, VA, that the “option” of waging total war on civilian populations of the Muslim faith in a manner similar to the “historical precedents of Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki” should be openly embraced and explored. The suggestion that the norms of international humanitarian law, as enshrined by the Geneva Conventions of 1949, are no longer relevant is a reprehensible and criminal concept that has no place in U.S. military doctrine.

U.S. Military Taught Officers: Use ‘Hiroshima’ Tactics for ‘Total War’ on Islam: WIRED Danger Room, May 10, 2012: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/05/total-war-islam/

“We have now come to understand that there is no such thing as ‘moderate Islam’…This barbaric ideology will no longer be tolerated. Islam must change or we will facilitate its self-destruction.” Such phrases, as uttered by JFSC faculty member Army Lt. Col. Matthew A. Dooley, constitute openly genocidal hate speech — the likes of which have led to some of the worst horrors in modern history. What is most troubling, however, is the fact that such abhorrent sentiments were allowed for years to permeate the lecture halls of the Joint Forces Staff College (JFSC) in Norfolk, VA (see below link for an Op-Ed on Anti-Muslim course content at JFSC, written on 5/08/12 by MRFF Founder and President Mikey Weinstein). MRFF has long been aware of Islamophobic content taught at JFSC, including the use of pathologically bigoted and sectarian figures such as Walid Shoebat and Brigitte Gabriel, who were allowed to pass off their poisonous hatred as “expertise.” In spite of the recent cancellation of such content, as ordered by Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. William Dempsey, the gravity of these new revelations makes one wonder how the culture within the U.S. military’s institutes of higher learning could become acclimated to such murderous concepts as the waging of total war against approximately 1.57 billion Muslim men, women, and children around the globe. Such sufficiently advanced incompetence is completely indistinguishable from willful malice.

The Currency of Words, or the Coin of the Realm? by Mikey Weinstein, May 8, 2012: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2012/05/08/the-currency-of-words-or-the-coin-of-the-realm/

MRFF calls on the Pentagon to expeditiously take concrete steps towards purging itself of exceptionalist, Christian supremacist, and sociopathic ideologies that have been allowed to bewitch influential figures within the highest echelons of military leadership. Firm countermeasures must be put in place to prevent the further propagation of criminal tactics and military strategies, as exemplified by the hypothetical destruction of Mecca and Medina (the paramount holy cities of the Muslim faith), and the reduction of Islam “to cult status” at the hands of a global “anti-Islamist” coalition bizarrely envisioned by JFSC faculty member Lt. Col. Dooley. Warped and racist perspectives which fail to distinguish between peaceful, civilian practitioners of religious faiths and the militant extremist adherents thereof must be decisively rooted out of U.S. military culture and academia. MRFF calls for the immediate dismissal of Lt. Col. Dooley, as well as an immediate condemnation, deeply probing investigation, and swift trial by courts-martial of those responsible for allowing content advocating genocide to be used to indoctrinate future leaders within the U.S. armed forces. It is high time that bloodthirsty, amoral, and nation-destroying concepts be stamped out of the educational institutions of our nation’s military, and that the time-honored, lofty traditions of our armed forces be restored to their proper place.

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