Top Ten Ways to Convince Muslims We're On a Crusade

[Why Syzygy]

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/ was founded in 2005 by U.S. Air Force Academy graduate and Reagan administration White House counsel Mikey Weinstein, after the harassment his own sons faced as Jewish cadets at the Academy led him to discover that the fundamentalist Christian takeover of the Air Force Academy was far from an isolated problem. It was a military-wide issue that needed to be confronted head on. But it quickly became apparent that MRFF's initial mission of protecting the rights of our men and women in uniform was only addressing part of the problem. The evangelizing and proselytizing of Iraqi and Afghan Muslims by both private religious organizations and U.S. military personnel also had to be exposed and stopped -- particularly the materials and media available via the internet and television that could be used by extremists as propaganda for recruiting purposes.

When MRFF began exposing some of what we were finding on the internet, Weinstein was contacted by two Bush administration national security officials, one civilian and one military, confirming that the kind of stuff we were exposing was, in fact, being used as fodder for propaganda, and urging him not to stop what MRFF was doing. The most astounding thing, as you'll see in the list below, is that it's not the private religious organizations who are most at fault in spreading the crusader message, but the U.S. military itself.

Top Ten Ways to Convince the Muslims We're On a Crusade

10. Have top U.S. military officers, Defense Department officials, and politicians say we're in a religious war

As many will remember, we couldn't have gotten off to a better start on winning hearts and minds when Lt. Gen. William "Jerry" Boykin, on his speaking tour of churches back in 2003, publicly and in uniform proclaimed that the so-called war on terror was really a fight between Satan and Christians, making comments like, "We in the Army of God, in the House of God, the Kingdom of God have been raised for such a time as this," saying that George Bush, who himself had ignorantly called the war a crusade, was "in the White House because God put him there," and, referring to the capture of Somali warlord Osman Atto, "I knew that my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God, and his was an idol."
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9. Have top U.S. military officers appear in a video showing just how Christian the Pentagon is

In addition to inadvertently providing propaganda material to our enemies, public endorsements of Christianity by U.S. military leaders can also cause concern among our Muslim allies.
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8. Plant crosses in Muslim lands and make sure they're big enough to be visible from really far away
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7. Paint crosses and Christian messages on military vehicles and drive them through Iraq
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6. Make sure that our Christian soldiers and chaplains see the war as a way to fulfill the Great Commission
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5. Post photos on the internet of U.S. soldiers with their rifles and Bibles
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4. Invite virulently anti-Muslim speakers to lecture at our military colleges and service academies
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3. Have a Christian TV network broadcast to the world that the military is helping missionaries convert Muslims

Travel the Road, a popular Christian reality TV series that airs on the Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), follows the travels of Will Decker and Tim Scott, two "extreme" missionaries who travel to remote, and often dangerous, parts of the world to fulfill their two part mission to "1. Vigorously spread the gospel to people who are either cut off from active mission work, or have never heard the gospel," and "2. Produce dynamic media content to display the life of missions, and thus, through these episodic series electrify a new generation to accomplish the Great Commission."

Season two of the series ended with three episodes filmed in Afghanistan. To film these episodes with the aid and participation of the U.S. Army, the TV show missionaries were permitted to be embedded with U.S. troops as "journalists." They stayed on U.S. military bases, traveled with a public affairs unit, and accompanied and filmed troops on patrols -- all for the purposes of evangelizing Afghan Muslims and producing a television show promoting the Christian religion.
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2. Make sure Bibles and evangelizing materials sent to Muslim lands have official U.S. military emblems on them
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1. Send lots of Arabic, Dari, and Pashtu language Bibles to convert the Muslims
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http://www.talk2action.org/story/2009/9/18/121931/814

[Ilsa]

1. And I thought it was significant that the local yokels here in so. Tx were

pissed about the upcoming Jammah at the Capitol Bldg. This is serious indoctrination of our military, and it too closely resembles the "convert or die" theology of past crusades of one sort or another.

[NOW tense]

2. "The Family" has their fingerprints all over this problem. n/t

[rrneck]

3. Religious and military authoritarianism

are a good fit.

When I was a kid in church I was a member of some sort of proselytizing group called the "Ambassadors" or some other such thing. The "logo" was a crest involving a shield and a sword. The "onward Christian soldiers" meme is alive and well in our culture. I don't doubt there has been a redoubled effort by religious groups to infiltrate the military since Reagan.

Part of being a soldier is doing what you are told. In that respect the attitudes and behavior of our military can be a pretty good reflection on our culture at large. We should be doubled by the excessive infiltration of religious extremism in our military because that extremism is troubling in our society at large.

We are developing our own Jihad, but we're just being sneaky about it by using the corporate military industrial complex to disperse responsibility for it to places we can't see it unless we look.

Praise the lord and pass the ammunition.

edited for lack of coffee

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. isn't the proper term "Muslin" and aren't they plotting to

turn are kids into terroris socalist fashists? And wyle you is at it, keep your govmint hands off my medicare!

[Ghost Dog]

5. Praise the Book.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT91YhDBmK4&feature=related (Jarmusch: Dead Man)