Mikey Weinstein (who apparently is most known for advocating for Jewish members of the U.S. armed forces) of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation is calling for investigation into reports that Nidal Hasan was harassed over his religion and ethnicity in the military.
Weinstein, who spent 10 years in the Air Force as a military attorney, or JAG, said he also doesn’t believe reports that Hasan’s colleagues hesitated to report his changes in behavior because of political correctness. In fact, he claimed, Hasan’s superiors would have been sympathetic to hearing such charges because of their strong Christian beliefs.
Weinstein would like to see military leaders make an “unadulterated clarion call” that Americans shouldn’t “paint all of Islam with a broad brush” and emphasize a “zero tolerance policy” of any religious harassment.
A 1977 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, from where his two sons and daughter-in-law also have graduated, Weinstein argues that Jews, Muslims and most members of the military who are not an evangelical Christian face a hostile environment from what he says are “fundamentalist Christians” who dominate the armed forces and are constantly trying to proselytize others.
abunoor 6:07 pm on November 17, 2009 Permalink |
Here is the link.
skevin 8:58 pm on November 17, 2009 Permalink |
Hey~ Mickey is the real deal. No matter he “is known for”, he vigorously defends the rights of ANY non-evangelical service-person. This is his website:
http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/
The Air Force Academy might as well be a Christian college, given the mandatory prostylizing that all cadets are subjected to. Mickey stands in the way of that being permanent.
johnpi 9:08 pm on November 17, 2009 Permalink |
Agreed.
Mikey and the MRFF foundation are morally and ethically consistent in their defense of all who are persecuted in the US military for being a member of a religious minority, unlike some other civil rights organizations that seem to leap to the defense of everyone except Muslims.
I would go so far as to say that if you have some spare change around and was inspired by the Fort Hood massacre to donate to an organization that is making a difference, you should send it to the MRFF.
In fact, the MRFF has been nominated for a 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.
MRFF Watch 9:14 am on November 18, 2009 Permalink |
Disagree. Weinstein is vehement in his anti-Christian schtick. Blaming Christians for Hasan’s jihadi massacre of Christians is just plain sick. As for USAFA as Christian college, where’s the beef? None of Weinstein’s wild charges were substantiated. Nor was his own alleged abuse in the seventies.
Lee Seligman 1:21 am on December 7, 2009 Permalink |
“MRFF Watch” whomever you may be … and “amerikan talaban” seems appropriate .. you are a liar and a coward. Every charge made by Mikey, the MRFF, and Americans for Separation of Church and State, as well as other organizations, are fully documented and available for inspection in court filings, on line, in complaints to the DOD and others, etc. In so far as I am concerned, you and your ilk are a far greater danger to this country than the taliban or al queda … you constitute an insidious 5th column, a far greater danger to this country and its Constitution than any foreign fanatical entity !
Additionally, if anyone reading this has knowledge of Adam Hattani, a true American hero, discussed by Campbell Brown on CNN, please put him in touch with me or with the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, as Mikey Weinstein is interested in trying to assist him. FYI: I also am a member of MRFF, as well as an Alumnus of the U.S. Naval Academy.