Bibles Destroyed in Afghanistan... By U.S. Military

[RamboLiberal]

Source: ABC News

On May 4, Al Jazeera English ran a report suggesting that U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan may have been violating anti-proselytizing rules by distributing Dari-and Pashto-language New Testament Bibles.

Central Command General Order No. 1 specifically forbids “proselytizing of any faith, religion or practice.” The footage came from documentary filmmaker Brian Hughes

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Though a discussion about what to do with the Bibles was captured on video, Pentagon officials said the end result that the Bibles were not distributed but confiscated by the chaplain -- which is not shown in the footage.

"A documentary filmmaker was allowed onto Bagram last May to shoot footage of religious sessions involving troops," the Pentagon said. "He recorded a session where a participant displayed Bibles translated into Dari and Pashto that had been sent to him by his church back home. After a discussion of how or if they should be distributed, the chaplain running the service reaffirmed Gen. Order No. 1 and the Bibles were not distributed and were confiscated."



Read more: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/05/bibles-destroye.html

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Now why don't I quite believe this??????? And note it happened last year. Bet some dimwit blowhards on the Right will try to blame Obama.

[Soylent Brice]

1. they really were/are on some kind of fucked up holy crusade.

[marshall]

2. That's where they bombed those ancient Buddhist statues

Afghanistan is hardcore when it comes to squashing any religion other than the one it deems the true religion.

[bitchkitty]

7. I remember that.

Freaking barbarians. The whole world was watching when they destroyed priceless, irretrievable works of art.

[roguevalley]

9. enforce the rule. this is putting a bigger bullseye on our guys and

gals than even before.

[polichick]

3. Bill Maher recently had a segment about the military passing out Bibles...

...and also info. flyers about Christianity ~ and mentioned the name of a General who is involved.

[Vehl]

4. winning hearts and minds while we have people undercutting any progress?

by giving out bibles to the Afgans?

don't they realize that they are playing right into the hands of the Taliban/Al Qauida?
even Afghan skeptical of the Al-Qauidas' "American crusaders" claim would not be more inclined to believe them.

[WestSeattle2]

5. How foolish can they be? Words fail.

[Turborama]

6. CNN: "Troops at posts in war zones are required to burn their trash, Wright said."

From: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/20/us.military.bibles.burned/index.html">Army burns unsolicited Bibles sent to Afghanistan

Trash? Wow, that's a rather indelicate way of putting it, whichever way you look at this story...

[Jokerman]

8. Video taped evidence vs. Army Spokesperson

Talk about a credibility gap.

First it didn't happen, now it happened but as soon as the taping stopped they decided to destroy the bibles and follow the law.

Yea right.