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Defense Department guide: American Revolution fought by 'extremists'
A Department of Defense (DoD) teaching guide meant to fight extremism advises students that rather than "dressing in sheets" modern-day radicals "will talk of individual liberties, states' rights, and how to make the world a better place." The guide comes from documents obtained by Judicial Watch and is authored by the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute, a DoD-funded diversity training center.Under a section titled "extremist ideologies," the document states, "In U.S. history, there are many examples of extremist ideologies and movements. The colonists who sought to free themselves from British rule and the Confederate states who sought to secede from the Northern states are just two examples." Besides a brief reference to 9/11 and another to the Sudanese civil war, the guide makes no mention of Islamic extremism. The guide also repeatedly tells readers to use the Southern Poverty Law Center as a resource in identifying hate groups. Posted by: Pappy 2013-08-27 |
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