Thursday

Oh but it's perfectly ok to burn Bibles!

Note the old date of this article - but it is certainly relevant to current events wouldn't you say?

U.S. military says Afghan bibles have been destroyed
Tue May 5, 2009 4:15pm IST

(Reuters) - Bibles in Afghan languages sent to a U.S. soldier at a base in Afghanistan were confiscated and destroyed to ensure that troops did not breach regulations which forbid proselytising, a military spokeswoman said.

The U.S. military has denied its soldiers tried to convert Afghans to Christianity, after Qatar-based Al Jazeera television showed soldiers at a bible class on a base with a stack of bibles translated into the local Pashto and Dari languages.

U.S. Central Command's General Order Number 1 forbids troops on active duty -- including all those based in Iraq and Afghanistan -- from trying to convert people to another religion.

"I can now confirm that the Bibles shown on Al Jazeera's clip were, in fact, collected by the chaplains and later destroyed. They were never distributed," spokeswoman Major Jennifer Willis said at Bagram air base, north of Kabul.

Military officials have said the bibles were sent through private mail to an evangelical Christian soldier by his church back home. The soldier brought them to the bible study class where they were filmed.

Trying to convert Muslims to another faith is a crime in Afghanistan. An Afghan man who converted to Christianity was sentenced to death for apostasy in 2006 but was allowed to leave the country after an international uproar.

"It certainly is, from the United States military's perspective, not our position to ever push any specific kind of religion, period," chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen told a Pentagon briefing on Monday.

2 comments:

Dennis308 said...

I turned in a aplication today with the National Parks sevice for a RTC Rally @ Palo Alto National Battle Ground Park just to the North of Brownsville.TX.
The suepervisor seamed as though he was favorable to the idea of holding a rally there but he had to look at some logistical problems he had because of work that is scegualed to be performed around that date 10-30-10. I will keep everyone posted as to the outcome of the Permit as soon as I hear myself.

Dennis
III
Texas

MikeH. said...

I guess the bible, and any religion other than Muslim, are little more than fly by night, mail order licensed junk?

MikeH.