<p>AFalcon10 - I hope you will remember that diversity works both ways. While you will undoubtedly be in the minority at USAFA, those in the majority also deserve tolerance. </p>
<p>For example, Campus Crusade for Christ is a religious organization that students have a right to belong to. It’s not an official AF organization; it’s a religious organization with permission to hold meetings on campus (I presume). Their beliefs do not agree with yours. They believe in evangelism. Evangelism is not usually hate speech. ( This is a wild guess on my part, but I’m just betting the guy who made the anti-Jew slams was not attending CCCAFA meetings. That kind of thing would be severely condemned by an organization such as CCC.) In the same way that most Muslims are not terrorists, most Christians aren’t “haters”.</p>
<p>And just a little aside, most evangelical Christians today understand the folly of the Crusades during the middle-ages. Most Christian organizations with “crusade” in their name have had those names for many years. Most Americans don’t really connect the word “crusade” with the Crusades against the Muslim people. It usually has the connotation of “mission” or “quest”</p>
<p>Anyway, I hope you will take advantage of the opportunity to engage those of different faiths and learn from them and that they also will learn from you. If there is not already a Muslim organization on campus, maybe you can be the one to get a chapter started. That would provide a means for you to spend some time with cadets of your faith where you could draw encouragement from one another.</p>