Respecting cultural differences aids military’s mission Re: “Political correctness runs amok among Marines,” Nov. 6
Diana West’s misguided attempt to demonstrate ineptness in the Marine Corps only serves to fuel disrespect for our military and the Afghan people. The cultural training West ridicules prepares and professionally develops our troops for their overseas deployments.
To garner immediate attention, West attempts to convince Examiner readers that advising troops to avoid urinating in the direction of Mecca is not one of, but “the key” U.S. strategy in Afghanistan. Come on! And the military is not ordered to “revere the Quran” as her article leads one to believe.
Cultural training has nothing to do with being politically correct. Common sense dictates that our troops understand how to interact and work with their Afghan counterparts within accepted cultural boundaries to ensure their mission’s success.
In light of the extraordinary difficulties associated with that mission, I will take any advice I can get.
Scott Zipprich
Burke
CAIR’s founders were not civil libertarians
Re: “Credo: Nadhira Al-Khalili,” Nov. 6
In this puff piece on Al-Khalili in Sunday’s Credo, you seem to have overlooked the fact that the Council on American-Islamic Relations is one of the organizations that was organized and supported by the Muslim Brotherhood.
CAIR’s public persona as a civil rights group for Muslims is just a front.
Peter D. Wells
Burke
Lululemon witnesses should also be prosecuted
Re: “First-degree murder verdict for Lululemon killer,” Nov. 3
With Brittany Norwood’s conviction for the murder of Jayna Murray, justice was only partially served. I don’t know what was more tragic — that an angry Norwood brutally snuffed the life out of her co-worker over something so trivial, or that the occupants in the Apple Store next door heard most of the attack and did nothing to help.
What kind of degenerates stand by as a woman screams for help, begging for her life, and they can’t even be bothered to call the police? No one was asking them to intervene, just call for help.
If true justice is to be served, these Apple Store witnesses should be either charged as accomplices or, at the very least, prosecuted for negligent manslaughter. It’s just this kind of apathy and moral depravity that leads to such murders in the first place.
Jenna Simons
Alexandria
