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Friday, November 06, 2009

Damn Political Correctness and "commitment to tolerance"

That commitment to tolerance just got people killed and it will get more killed in the future.

This paragraph from the Associated Press says it all:
Dr. Val Finnell, a classmate of Hasan's at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, attended a master's in public health program in 2007-2008. Finnell says he got to know Hasan because the group of public health students took an environmental health class together. At the end of the class, everyone had to give a presentation. Classmates wrote on topics such as dry cleaning chemicals and mold in homes, but Finnell said Hasan chose the war against terror. Finnell described Hasan as a "vociferous opponent" of the terror war. Finnell said Hasan told classmates he was "a Muslim first and an American second."

Did you read that? A Muslim first and an American second? Uttered by someone in the US military to OTHER members of the military in a US military educational institution and he wasn't summarily bounced out of that medical school and sent off to Alaska to break rocks for 10 years? And his classmates who heard this didn't report it? Or has the military become so "tolerant" that it too has abandoned common sense?

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