Faisal Khetani, the now-fired employee from Discount-mats.com who sent the e-mail, is Muslim, and a number of incendiary e-mail's and calls have gone to the Muslim community about the e-mail....
Rock I agree it is outrageous, but given the above tidbit, this is not a left versus right issue.

It is --apparently-- a case on an employee who's sympathies are directed by his religion using his work platform inappropriately. Seems to me the company did the right thing in hiring him w/o discrimnation on basis of race, religion, sex, or creed and then did the right thing in firing him because he wanted to use those same factors in deciding whom to provide adequate service, in this case a soldier.

Best

Tom