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DOCUMENT VINDICATES ARMY OFFICER’S TEACHING ON ISLAM

Chad Groening (OneNewsNow.com)
Monday, December 17, 2012
A law firm that defends and promotes Christian heritage and moral values says it has obtained a document that vindicates an 18-year veteran Army officer who is being disciplined for telling the truth about Islam.

The Thomas More Law Center says it has obtained more evidence to prove its contention that the Pentagon is taking its marching orders from Islamic groups in taking extreme disciplinary action against Lt. Col. Matthew Dooley, a 1994 graduate of the United States Military Academy.

The highly decorated armor officer was excoriated and relieved of a teaching assignment because he discussed negative aspects of Islam in an elective course entitled "Perspectives on Islam and Islamic Radicalism" at the Joint Services Staff College.

Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel of the Thomas More Law Center, says they have obtained an official communication that vindicates their client.

"In December 2011, the vice president of the National Defense University, a Dr. Brenda Roth, officially confirmed in writing to the Pentagon that all the course materials that were being taught at the National Defense University were vetted and approved by the university and its military command," he tells OneNewsNow.
But Thompson says the bottom line is that President Barack Obama, the commander-in-chief, is pro-Islam.

"The Pentagon is now doing his bidding," he points out. "And his bidding is there is to be no negative aspect of the religion of Islam or the political ideology of Islam that he is not ready to embrace or which is a concern of national security."
Thompson says the TMLC is considering a federal lawsuit if the case is not resolved by administrative remedy.

Document vindicates Army officer

Instructor with anti-Islam course matter is reassigned
By Dianna Cahn
The Virginian-Pilot

© November 29, 2012The Army lieutenant colonel who was relieved of his duties for teaching anti-Islamic subject matter at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk was reassigned this month to a less visible position at another local base after a negative evaluation.

Lt. Col. Matthew Dooley was assigned Nov. 1 to the Army Capabilities Integration Center at Fort Eustis in Newport News. There, he helps develop small weapons and combat capabilities for troops as part of the lethality branch of the center's Maneuver, Aviation and Soldier Division.

Dooley's focus is no longer on religious extremism. Instead, he works on developing "integrated capabilities" for individual and crew-served small arms, unmanned ground vehicles, sensors, lasers, mortars and shoulder-launched munitions, according to Greg Mueller, an Army spokesman at Fort Eustis.
Dooley, an armor officer, began teaching at the Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk in September 2010, said Maj. Justin Platt, a spokesman at the Pentagon.
After a military officer who was enrolled in his course - Perspectives on Islam and Islamic Radicalism - complained about some of the subject matter, the Pentagon halted the course in April.

An investigation found that Dooley portrayed the U.S. as at war with Islam, in contrast with government assertions that the fight is against terrorism.

Dooley also taught that Muslims "hate everything you stand for" and suggested that the Geneva Conventions that guide the treatment of prisoners was no longer relevant.

Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, reviewed the course material and ordered it suspended, saying it was "totally objectionable, against our values, and it wasn't academically sound."

Last month, the Army issued Dooley a negative Officer Evaluation Report, tarnishing what his supporters described as a stellar career.

Platt said nothing in Dooley's file indicated that his new position has taken him off of his career path, but Dooley's supporters said the negative evaluation was highly damaging.

A spokesman for the Joint Chiefs of Staff seemed to agree.

Richard Osial said Lt. Gen. George Flynn, one of Dempsey's deputies, relieved Dooley "for cause, for lack of confidence in him as an instructor."

"Relieving for cause is a pretty big deal," Osial said. "The fact that the general had to relieve him for cause did mean significant action on the general's part."
The Thomas More Law Center, a Christian advocacy law firm, describes the evaluation as a "death knell" for an officer's military career.

In October, Republican Reps. Thomas Rooney of California and Duncan Hunter of Florida wrote to Gen. Dempsey questioning the need for the negative evaluation once the course was suspended. They noted that Dooley's performance was called "outstanding" and "best qualified" in prior evaluations.

"We would like to know why the DOD was compelled to further discipline LTC Dooley by jeopardizing his reputation and his future service," the letter said.
In a two-page response, Joint Staff Director Lt. Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti said the Joint Force Staff College was the only military school that failed to have adequate academic standards in place to approve course curricula. It also found Dooley's judgment faulty and said that because Dooley was relieved "for cause," Army regulations required an Officer Evaluation Report to reflect that.

"The inquiry also reviewed aspects related to academic freedom, recognizing that academic freedom cannot be divorced from responsibility to exercise sound judgment, objectivity and professionalism in the transmission of knowledge," Scaparrotti wrote.

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Muslim group: Fire Joint Forces College teacher

By Bill Sizemore

The Virginian-Pilot
© May 11, 2012NORFOLK

A national Islamic civil rights organization called Thursday for the dismissal of an instructor at Norfolk's Joint Forces Staff College following new allegations about inflammatory anti-Muslim material in a course he taught there.

The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations acted after Wired magazine published what it said were new details about the course, which was suspended by the Pentagon last month following a complaint from a student about its anti-Islamic content.

On its website, Wired posted what it said were course materials it received from a source familiar with the content of the class. Those materials raise the possibility of "near total war" with Islam, including abandoning the Geneva Conventions and targeting civilian populations as was done in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.

That could include such measures as destroying the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia, the materials suggest.

"It is imperative that those who taught our future military leaders to wage war not just on our terrorist enemy, but on the faith of Islam itself be held accountable," Nihad Awad, executive director of the Muslim group, wrote in a letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. "These shocking revelations are completely out of line with the longstanding values of one of our nation's most respected institutions."

Awad also called for retraining all officers who took the course, and he offered to coordinate a meeting between Pentagon officials and national Muslim leaders.

"If left uncorrected, the biased, inaccurate and un-American training previously given to these officers will harm our nation's security, image and interests for years to come," he wrote.

The Pentagon halted the course last month after the first class of an eight-week cycle and ordered a broad review of instructional materials across all branches of the military services to ensure "cultural sensitivity, respect for religion and intellectual balance."

The new Wired report included, for the first time, the name of the officer who taught the course: Army Lt. Col. Matthew A. Dooley.

A Pentagon spokesman authenticated the documents. Dooley still works for the college but is no longer teaching, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey said.

Dempsey said the material in the Norfolk course was counter to American "appreciation for religious freedom and cultural awareness."

"It was just totally objectionable, against our values, and it wasn't academically sound," Dempsey said when asked about the matter at a Pentagon news conference.

Among the materials posted on the Wired website is a 28-page document headed "So What Can We Do? A Counter-Jihad Op Design Model," bearing Dooley's name and a July 2011 date.

The document includes an acknowledgment that it does not represent official U.S. policy.

"This model asserts Islam has already declared war on the West, and the United States specifically," the document says. "It is, therefore, illogical to continue along our current global strategy models that presume there are always possible options for common ground."

The document says the 1949 Geneva Conventions prescribing standards for armed conflict "are now, due to the current common practices of Islamic terrorists, no longer relevant or respected globally. This would leave open the option once again of taking war to a civilian population wherever necessary (the historical precedents of Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, Nagasaki being applicable to the Mecca and Medina destruction)."

The elective course, which had been offered since 2004, drew about 100 officers a year, typically Navy commanders and captains and Army, Air Force and Marine Corps lieutenant colonels and colonels preparing for high-level joint assignments.

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