Are you telling me that military academies in Pakistan have nothing similar?
Depends what you mean by 'similar'. I accept that all militaries plan
reasonable contingencies, so what do I mean by reasonable?
Declaring war on a country is reasonable.
Declaring war on an organized group of criminals (drug dealers, terrorists, etc.) is reasonable.
Declaring war on a race is
NOT reasonable.
Declaring war on a religion is
NOT reasonable.
So how does defending academic freedom turn to associating Al-Qaeda's ideology to that of 'mainstream' muslims'?
Lt. Dooley is making the jump in his premise, and you are defending his intellectual dishonesty by invoking freedom of speech. It is certainly freedom of speech in the same way as Hitler/Stalin/OBL's speeches were freedom of speech. Anyone can 'justify' their ideology by making ridiculous extrapolations and generalizations.
No need to present any new arguments when the current criticism about Dooley is proving to be problematic for you.
Uh huh.
Not too long ago, it was absurd for dedicated muslims to attack Americans on US soil, even after the WTC towers had a failed underground parking garage bomb, it was still absurd and quite hypothetical.
What on earth is a 'dedicated' Muslim? Just because some criminal uses that label to describe themselves makes it valid to reverse-extrapolate that blame to all Muslims?
If a self-proclaimed 'black panther' or a 'dedicated' Jew commits a crime, shall we then conclude that all blacks and Jews are automatically criminals?
Did he? The removal of his 'course', if we are to be generous and call it that, was not because of its intellectual absurdity but because of its social and political sensitivity, as in we are bending over backwards to accommodate overly sensitive muslims sensibilities. No one in the muslim world give a damn about Christian and Jewish sensitivities.
Duh! No one here is questioning the intellectual content of the course. The whole objection is about the social presumptions underlying the premise for the course.
Once again, reasonable people do not declare war on races or religions; people who do so are called fanatical extremists.
Reasonable people do not willingly suspend Geneva Convention rules and deliberately target civilian centers with weapons of mass destruction; people who do so are called fanatical extremists.
The JFSC course fails the test of reasonableness on both counts.