Army Lt. Col. Matthew Dooley is fighting back, appealing a negative performance evaluation. (U.S. Army).
We expect the poison of political correctness in American colleges and universities because left-wing professors dominate academia. But to see this political ideology infect our armed forces is almost beyond belief.
Let us be clear. The purpose of deliberately minimizing the danger of radical Islam is to make America receptive to sharia. By appeasing the Islamists in our midst we are chipping away at our Constitution and paving the way for a caliphate.
Make no mistake about it: the Obama regime has a soft spot for the Muslim Brotherhood. And this affection for the very people who assassinated Anwar Sadat and who nurtured and continue to nurture every genocidal Islamic terrorist group on the face of the earth directly threatens Judeo-Christian civilization.
When Army Lt. Col. Matthew Dooley last year began teaching a class to fellow officers on the dangers of radical Islam, he seemed to have landed in a perfect spot.
A highly rated armor officer who saw combat in Iraq, Col. Dooley planned to instruct for several years at the Joint Forces Staff College within the National Defense University, then seek command of a combat battalion — a ticket to better postings and higher rank.
Today, Col. Dooley finds himself at a dead end while being targeted for criticism by American Islamic groups, at least two of which are linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, which advocates universal Islamic law.
More important, Col. Dooley’s critics include Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
In a news conference with Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta in May, Gen. Dempsey, the nation’s highest-ranking military officer, publicly excoriated Col. Dooley’s training materials as being unfair to Islam and “academically irresponsible.”
A month after Gen. Dempsey’s rebuke, a general on his Pentagon staff ordered Col. Dooley to be removed as an instructor “for cause.”
As a result, regulations called for Marine Lt. Gen. George Flynn to order the National Defense University to produce a negative officer evaluation report on Col. Dooley — a career ender.
Richard Thompson, president of the nonprofit Thomas More Law Center, is representing Col. Dooley in an appeal against the negative report. He said the Pentagon is trying to appease the Muslim Brotherhood.
“What happened here was this whole idea of political correctness deterred the ability of our military to speak frankly about the identity of the enemy,” Mr. Thompson said in an interview. “Once you allow political correctness to overwhelm our military, then we are really going to have an impact on our national security.”
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Mr. Thompson said the university simply could have informally counseled Col. Dooley to change some of the material, which the officer would have done. Instead, Gen. Dempsey and others chose to “throw him under the bus in public” and “damage his reputation,” the lawyer said.
Col. Dooley’s evaluation report last year, while he was teaching the course, lauded him as a superb officer.
In addition, the course and the materials in it had been approved by the National Defense University, whose guidance to instructors says that “no subject or issue is considered taboo.”
On Aug. 29, two raters at the university issued a negative officer evaluation report, as ordered, ruining any chance for Col. Dooley to make full colonel and effectively cutting short his professional upward path.
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Ariel Chaim Avrech, ZT'L, May His Righteous Memory be a Blessing.
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My optimistic and my cynical sides are fighting a rising battle. There is always hope, folks, the attempted assasination of 14 year old Malala Yousafzai has brought thousands onto the streets of Pakistan in protest against the Taliban. The tide is turning.
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General Martin Dempsey. The same General Dempsey that is clearly no friend of Israel?
The top tier of American military command is swelling with politically correct brass that lack
xxxxxcular fortitude.
If Romney does get in, on day one he needs to do to the good General Demsey what Lincoln did to McClellan!
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Major Hasan should be exhibit A about how the military has been PC’d toward Islam. This is another example of how the military will keep everyone in line marching to the chant ‘religion of peace’.
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If Obama is re-elected and this situation stands, then the end is near. It’s not too late to change course, but the next month will tell…
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Robert–
Are there suddenly more unacceptable comments…?
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Barry:
There are some really crazy people out there, mostly my faithful readers in Yemen (hey, who knew they even had electricity) and Egypt. I forward their stuff to the FBI.
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Hat’s off to you Robert – a lot of people would say ‘who needs this”?
Now to watch the debates …
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Maybe that explains why the Ft Hood terrorist attack is officially “workplace violence”
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Bill:
Hidal Nassan is exactly what happens when political correctness takes root in society and spreads, like cancer, to our armed forces.
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