After the terrorist attack at Ft. Hood by Maj. Nadal Malik Hasan, and news this week of the thwarted plot of the "Fort Jackson Five," new evidence emerges that the media is starting to take the practicing of religious-based extremism in the Army's ranks seriously - but it's not what you think. Katie Drummond of AOL News has the diversionary story: The Pentagon has been pushing religious tolerance for decades, but several separate incidents in recent months are reinvigorating advocates who worry that the U.S. military is being controlled by a small but powerful subculture of evangelical Christians. Last year, former NFL player Terry Bradshaw starred in an official military video that espoused "the importance of faith" in combating post-deployment depression. In January, news broke that a Michigan company had been inscribing coded references to the New Testament on high-powered rifle sights sold to the U.S. military. Weeks later, a giant cross was placed in the...(Read Full Post)