WASHINGTON — The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has ordered military schools to make sure they are not including anti-Islamic themes in training courses, the Defense Department said Wednesday, after complaints surfaced about the curriculum in a course dealing with terrorism and radicalism.
The chairman, Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, ordered the review after students questioned some of the teachings in a class called Perspectives on Islam and Islamic Radicalism, which was being taught to midlevel officers at the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Va.
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