Three more to speak on Islam at academy
http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2008/02/airforce_terrorists_academy_022908/
{EXCERPT} , By Robert Weller - The Associated Press Posted : Friday Feb
29, 2008
16:15:59 EST
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. — The Air Force Academy has invited three more
speakers
to give cadets their vision of Islam.
Mikey Weinstein, head of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, former
U.S.
Ambassador to Niger Joe Wilson and Islamic expert Reza Aslan, a research
associate at the University of Southern California’s Center on Public
Diplomacy,
will speak to cadets April 9 at a forum on terrorism. Weinstein, a retired
Air
Force judge advocate general officer, has criticized the Air Force for
years
over claims the service improperly promotes Christianity.
Academy officials invited the three amid criticism of the appearances of
Walid
Shoebat, Kamal Saleem and Zachariah Anani at a Feb. 6 forum on the topic,
“Dismantling Terrorism.”
Although academy spokesman Johnny Whitaker said the invitation was not
made in
response to
Chaplains Discussion/News/Info Exchange Forum
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