Bibles for Afganistan

[Pawn Power]

Christian Evangelicals have been proselytizing, along with their killing.

In this video a military Chaplin is is shown telling soldiers they need to "hunt people for Jesus" while soldiers get shipments of Bibles in Pashto and Dari to give out to the locals.

Without a doubt, missionary work continues into the 21st century based on the precept that 'our' religion is the 'correct' one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVGmbzDLq5c&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ealternet%2Eorg%2Fblogs%2Fw aroniraq%2F139686%2Fcaught%5Fon%5Ftape%253A%5Fmili tary%5Fofficials%5Fat%5Fbagram%5Furge%5Fu%2Es%2E%5 Fsoldiers%5Fto%5Fevangeli&feature=player_embedded

[ComradeOm]

Well they've tried everything else... :rolleyes:

Who is that narrating? I thought it was Louis Theroux but obviously not

[teenagebricks]

It's called a crusade.

[hugsandmarxism]

Wow. Just... wow. Bush wasn't lying when he said "This is a crusade."

[Tseka]

It's really sad on how much money is wasted on these religious teachings when the money could be used on actual necessities like food, water, clothes and actual education.

[brigadista]

they are completely clueless-

[STJ]

Yes they are the fools. Buy yourselves a clue Bible thumpers.

[Pirate Utopian]

Good job that's exactly what they need over there! :rolleyes:

[Kami]

I'm going to quote noxion here:


If I was a commander, I wouldn't stand for looters, rapists, deserters and evangelists. No halfway decent soldier needs god breathing down their necks

I'd expand on the end there, if I were doing precisely what my god had commanded me not to do, I know I sure as well wouldn't want to be reminded he was watching :P

[LOLseph Stalin]

This is the exact reason why I hate alot of charities. They carry a similar "we'll help you if you read this bible" sort of attitude. Like seriously, why should faith have to matter while trying to help dying children?

[mykittyhasaboner]

"Yeah lets shoot at them, then pray for them! That will surely win them over!"

[Cult of Reason]

IIRC, any Afghan who converts to Christianity will be killed. Remember that journalist executed a couple of years ago?

[ComradeR]

So it would seem the imperialist troops and the jihadists aren't so different after all, they both attempt to spread their religious faith at gunpoint.

[Pawn Power]

It is becoming more clear that this is not an isolated incident or even a fringe movement. Soldiers are actively harvesting souls and spilling blood.

Here is a couple interview in which one reporter, from Harpers, talks about Easter day in which soldiers had, in Arabic, "Jesus Killed Muhammad" painted on the side of their military vehicle and mounted a blow horn saying the same thing and then proceeded to drive through a town in Afghanistan, obviously taking fire, and returned all fire as enemy fire which needed to be eliminated. One more note, the driver of the vehicle said that god was on his said and that they reeked almost "biblical destruction" in the spiritual battle. (The part with this story starts at about 48:00 in the clip).

Scary shit indeed.

The Video Interview (http://www.democracynow.org/2009/5/6/the_crusade_for_a_christian_military)

[brigadista]

maybe we will see headlines such as "soldier killed by flying bible"...

[Communist Theory]

Great now the Afghan people need not go without toilet paper!

[Pawn Power]

Okay, here is the actual words from the interview from the transcripts.


JEFF SHARLET: Well, after about a year of interviewing military personnel, this was, in some ways, the most frightening story that I encountered. A man named Staff Sergeant Jeffery Humphrey, one of the very few soldiers who, in this military climate, had the courage to come forward and speak out about what he had seen, he had been stationed in Samarra. It was Easter. The day began calmly. A chaplain brought around a copy of Mel Gibson’s anti-Semitic film Passion of the Christ, which they then put on constant play throughout the day.

When they came under attack, the Special Forces, Army Special Forces to whom he was assigned, had their Iraqi translator, an Iraqi American Christian, paint in giant red Arabic letters on the side of a Bradley fighting vehicle the words “Jesus killed Mohammed.” Then, while they put the translator on the roof with a bullhorn, shouting in Arabic, “Jesus killed Mohammed,” and then training their guns, training American guns on anybody who responded, the Bradley fighting vehicle rolled out into the city of Samarra and drawing fire everywhere it went, leading the Special Forces to conclude that every single Iraqi who took offense at these words, “Jesus killed Mohammed,” was part of the enemy and therefore needed to be destroyed.

And I spoke to the man who drove that Bradley, Lieutenant John DeGiulio, now Captain John DeGiulio, promoted since. And he describes wreaking almost biblical destruction on one whole block, blowing up every single thing he saw. And he said he was able to do this, because God was on his side and because he had been spiritually armored by watching Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ. And then he thanked his chaplain for preparing him for that kind of spiritual battle on the streets of Iraq.My emphasis.

[Pawn Power]

Here is a pretty decent excerpt from the article mention in the interview: Jesus Killed Mohammaed (http://killingthebuddha.com/mag/dogma/jesus-killed-mohammed/).

The full article isn't on the Harpers' website so you apparently have to buy the mag if you want to read it.

[Communist Theory]

because God was on his side and because he had been spiritually armored by watching Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ.
What a load of bullshit. I hope he gets captured by the insurgents and decapitated.
Piece of shit. Fuck god, fuck religion!

[und]

What a load of bullshit. I hope he gets captured by the insurgents and decapitated.
Piece of shit. Fuck god, fuck religion!
You can fuck religion all right, but there's nothing to fuck in terms of God!

[NecroCommie]

Wouldn't it be hilarious if Jesus killed coalition soldiers?

[brigadista]

gives a new meaning to "winning hearts and minds" lol -eejits

[brigadista]

its beyond belief!!!! lol

[Communist Theory]

Hey guys! Manifesto's for everybody!
Now that would be cool.

[STJ]

I want my Bible you got to have something to wipe your ass with.

[brigadista]

Okay, here is the actual words from the interview from the transcripts.

My emphasis.


might as well have put targets and"shoot here" on the side ...lol

[Cheung Mo]

I hope Jesus comes back and makes these fascist crusaders suffer the same conditions that innocents Jews and Slavs suffered in Hitler's concentration camps.

[Il Medico]

Just another sad example of religious extremism and misuse of religion in general, the capitalist trying to cover their greed in a vial of missionary work. :( This is a prime example of the statement "Religion is the opium of the masses". Tell the soldiers they are doing it for God, and they won't mind killing a few women and children. Sad. :crying:

[khad]

I hope Jesus comes back and makes these fascist crusaders suffer the same conditions that innocents Jews and Slavs suffered in Hitler's concentration camps.
According to the Koran, Jesus (Isa) will descend from Heaven to Damascus in order to rally the forces of good against Al-Dajjal's legions of evil.

Christian anti-Muslim sentiment is as irrational as it is pathetic.

[Pawn Power]

More evidence for US religious crusading. (http://www.revleft.com/vb/rumsfelds-crusader-memos-t109281/index.html?p=1448281#post1448281)