Posted on 09/09/2010 4:45:52 AM PDT by Doctor13
KABUL | Tue May 5, 2009 4:15pm IST
KABUL (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.
"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.
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Looks as if we only press for diversity under freedom, but no diversity is to be considered in an Islam controlled nation!
We, are charged before God, as a nation “Under God” and with a national motto: “In God We Trust” to provide God’s message of His Son Jesus Christ.”
He, Jesus Christ, is the only Saviour given to mankind by God, whereby we must be saved!
Why does the expression, “No more Mr. Nice Guy” keep popping into my head.
At some point, we, as a nation, will have to decide whether we will:
1) Become Dhimmis and slowly slide backward into Islam
2) Joyfully grab our prayer rugs & compasses and figure out the direction to bow toward Mecca. (Obama-taught lessons will be available on DVD)
3) Or fight, initially figuratively, as a civilization against Islam.
Since Islam demands exclusivity of thought, word and deed in its domain, we have no choices other than to fight or to yield.
What will it be?
I am going to burn one, film it and post it on YouTube. To hell with mooslims, they are trash and should be eradicated.
When Bibles are outlawed, only outlaws will have Bibles.
“I can now confirm that the Bibles shown on Al Jazeera’s clip were, in fact, collected by the chaplains and later destroyed
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That does it...
All 300 million of us Americans will be over there with violence etc...
That is one sure way of causing a problem our overlords can’t solve. ;0)
Fight and then fight some more.
Double standards are the liberal way of life that is like an infectious cancer.
A Christians duty is to spread the Gospel. We are in fact commanded to do so. That order is above and beyond any order in which any government give. In fact an order not to spread the Gospel is to be immediately and without hesitation DISOBEYED.
If I bring up a computer screen with text from the Koran, and then I copy it into a word document, and then put the document in the trash can, will it cause international outrage and endanger our troops?
I wish someone would put a Koran and a Bible together with the Torah and burn all three, and put it on the Internet, just to show the difference between the “Religion of Peace” and the two other major religions in this world.
It’s unfortunate that the guy is making this into a stunt, and making it hard to use as a teachable moment.
But imagine if, instead of burning Korans, he was instead promising to baptize 1000 new Muslim converts to Christianity on 9/11.
Would the Islamic world be any less outraged? Of course not. Would our troops be in any less danger? Certainly not. But how would the opponents react? Would Petraeus have the guts to urge a pastor not to administer sacraments because it would endanger our troops? Would the President invoke his commander-in-chief powers to ask him to stand down?
You know, it’s hard to do analogies for this, because no other religion would respond like muslims do.
Not a story, move on or turn the page.
There is a lot of truth to this political cartoon!
“But imagine if, instead of burning Korans, he was instead promising to baptize 1000 new Muslim converts to Christianity on 9/11.”
Another pastor would be very wise to make THIS sort of statement.
You will be lynched by members of this forum if you do. If you want to burn something you better stick to burning the Holy Bible, the American Flag, or Blackthorn workers. That will spare you the wrath of the muslim and quran defenders.
To: Doctor13
The US military is an honorable organization and we said we would not do anything against the tenants of Islam and proselytizing Christianity in Afghanistan. We destroyed the Afghan-English bibles as a symbol of our commitment to not proselytizing there.
1) Al Jizera had the bibles on their news broadcast which if we had not had removed and destroyed the bibles, would have had more foreign Jihadist and Mujahedeen pouring money, weapons and fighters into the AOR/battlespace. Since the bradcast I will assume the Radical Muslim media is brimming with more hatred against the US and rallying support for the Taliban. I have not looked at the Pakitastan media but it could lessen civil and government support of US attacks on Taliban and Al-Qaida in their country. I have had enough problems with irrational Muslims poking into Iraq and the NATO and US forces in Afghanistan will have increased problems now.
2) The with out destroying the books would have been used by the Taliban as a talking point to say we where just waiting for later to begin the Christianization of a Muslim country for recruitment/rallying troops.
3) The Taliban has used Christians in the country as an excuse for their violence and or robbery of non Muslims in Afghanistan and will continue to do so. This incident will already have far consequences in that they will be more vulnerable now for the Taliban will have more excuses to kill them even if they are just being good people and helping innocents.
4) This will give the Iranian government more leverage and allow them to put more aid into the fight against us. (see other news articles about Iran involvement into Afghanistan)
I understand how many of the people in FR would have issues and will defend their Religion and way of life from radical Islam but this bible disaster will be a cause celeb that we must eliminate fast or it will cause more pain for us.
Gads, this whole cult is really irritating me beyond "tolerance." Will anyone be angry at the millions of Christians have been and are murdered in Sudan and elsewhere? Will anyone remember just weeks ago ten aide workers were murdered in Afghanistan because they were Christian? Anyone remember Daniel Pearl, Op Cast Lead, Mumbai, Ft Hood, It's endless madness and barbaric murder and THEY WANT US TO SHOW TOLERANCE? Until when? Until every minaret in the country is hallowed ground while our own government burns Bibles in some pissant reactionary appeasement in which they( muslims) just keep pushing and pushing and pushing?
Argghhhhhhhh! Someone please tell me this is all a nightmare. The darkness as prophesied is growing. The days of apostacy are ever present and the US government is burning bibles to appease, to negotiate terrorist idol worshoping thugs. In any other generation of the US we'd be outraged. Are we angry enough to allow a Qur'an burning for every Bible burnt? They want an eye for an eye yet they chop off the heads of non believers and Jews of course as less than human pigs and we are supposed to appease these monsters? Xin Loi
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