Following the attack on Capitol Hill on January 6, 2021, the Pentagon commissioned a study on extremist movements possibly infiltrated into the armies. A manual has already been distributed within the Army in June 2020: it identifies 21 supremacist groups.
In an audiovisual presentation by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) used during the seminar convened in early March by the US Secretary of Defense, General Lloyd Austin, a diagram shows the main extremist groups that the armies face today: the Ku Klux Klan, Hamas, Al-Qaëda, the Christian Identity sect and ... the Catholics.
According to the legal counsel of the First Liberty association, Maître Michael Berry, who was auditioned by the Armed Forces Committee of the House of Representatives on March 24, 2021, the Pentagon would consider the positions of the Catholic Church on gender issues as unacceptable.
He would have concluded that Catholics are likely to carry out attacks against American armies that allow transgender people (NB: the Catholic Church has no problem with transgender people, only with gender ideology).
Here is the pdf: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20530912/download.pdf
It says religious extremists espouse purity through subjugation or elimination of other religions. But it also warns that "Christian extremism is often conflated with white supremacy for a joint ideology focused on racial and religious purity which they believe to be God's intention."
Anti-feminists "openly call for the attack, raping and killing of women,” it reads.
“Primary target: Women, especially women they perceive as attractive (referred to as ‘Stacys’) who sexually reject or would likely reject unattractive men; attractive men (referred to as 'Chads') who are not sexually rejected by women; feminists; men who don’t stand against feminism.”
The slides reflect the challenge of cracking down on extremists without singling out political views. Just this week, Republicans in Congress raised fresh concerns that the Pentagon effort could be overreaching and singling out conservatives.
“I’m very concerned that we’re seeing people through all walks of society lose their jobs and other things simply because of a Facebook post or some other post that was made when somebody was mad,” Rep. Austin Scott (R-Ga.) said during a hearing before the House Armed Services Committee on the issue.
Marine Corps veteran Michael Berry, general counsel for the First Liberty Institute, a nonprofit organization that defends religious liberty, told the panel that he has seen Defense Department publications "indicating that people who identify as evangelical Christian or Catholic or of other faith groups are at least considered possibly extremist."
"You're essentially telling those who are, according to data, most likely to join our military, that they're unwelcome that they should look somewhere else," he said.
Source : https://www.politico.com/news/2021/03/27/military-extremism-target-list-478200