{"id":8645,"date":"2010-12-30T00:45:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T05:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8645"},"modified":"2013-10-06T23:00:32","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T02:00:32","slug":"letter-dadt-repeal-creates-propaganda-for-al-qaeda-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/30\/letter-dadt-repeal-creates-propaganda-for-al-qaeda-taliban\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: DADT Repeal Creates “Propaganda” for al Qaeda, Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"

A letter to the editor in a local Colorado Springs newspaper<\/a> raised the spectre that open homosexuality in the US military might actually help America’s adversaries:<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t wait until the Taliban and Al Qaida use this [DADT repeal] law as a recruiting tool for hardcore Muslim insurgents in its proof just how infidel America is when its government endorses homosexuality by law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Notwithstanding the rhetoric, he’s right.\u00a0 Islamic extremists have<\/em> cited America’s “moral depravity” as reason for attacking it.\u00a0 Openly allowing homosexuals to serve — even to serve in areas where Islamic law may demand death for simply\u00a0being<\/em> homosexual — may yet “advance the cause” of the Taliban and al Qaeda “propaganda machine,” to borrow a phrase from conspiracy theorist Michael Weinstein.<\/p>\n

(Then again, the opposite may be true.\u00a0 American and British forces have reportedly been “frequently confused<\/a>” about male sexuality in Afghanistan, where homosexuality is apparently unusually common yet strongly denied.\u00a0 Those same forces reportedly expressed “unease” at being propositioned<\/a>, as well as the inability to prevent the “apparent acts of pedophilia by Afghan soldiers and police.”)<\/p>\n

Weinstein has frequently accused American citizens engaged in religious exercise of providing “propaganda” to extremist adversaries<\/a>, since those adversaries either oppose or are offended by Christianity and, naturally, their offense should dictate America’s freedoms<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Think he’ll be intellectually consistent and note the same in this case?<\/p>\n

Didn’t think so.\u00a0 (In fact, in a bid for publicity he long ago expressed support for repeal<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A letter to the editor in a local Colorado Springs newspaper raised the spectre that open homosexuality in the US military might actually help America’s adversaries: I can\u2019t wait until the Taliban and Al Qaida use this [DADT repeal] law as a recruiting tool for hardcore Muslim insurgents in its proof just how infidel America is when its government endorses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[58,894,1424,219,442,44,85,2,679,10,171,230],"class_list":["post-8645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-afghanistan","tag-al-qaeda","tag-conspiracy","tag-dadt","tag-homosexual","tag-islam","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-propaganda","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-taliban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}