U.S. Soldiers Launch Campaign to Convert Iraqis to Christianity

So, it is not enough that we invade their country, rape their resources (and women and children), imprison, torture and kill their men, and desecrate their Holy Book and places of worship. It seems that we must also teach them the same mores that got our troops to this place of inhumanity by forcing Christianity down their throats as well. Who would'a thunk it?

U.S. Soldiers Launch Campaign to Convert Iraqis to Christianity

Some U.S. soldiers stationed in Iraq appear to have launched a major initiative to convert thousands of Iraqi citizens to Christianity by distributing Bibles and other fundamentalist Christian literature translated into Arabic to Iraqi Muslims.

A recent article published on the website of Mission Network News reported that Bible Pathway Ministries, a fundamentalist Christian organization, has provided thousands of a special military edition of its Daily Devotional Bible study book to members of the 101st Airborne Division of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, currently stationed in Iraq, the project "came into being when a chaplain in Iraq (who has since finished his tour) requested some books from Bible Pathway Ministries (BPM)."

Chief Warrant Officer Rene Llanos of the 101st Airborne told Mission Network News, "the soldiers who are patrolling and walking the streets are taking along this copy, and they're using it to minister to the local residents."

"Our division is also getting ready to head toward Afghanistan, so there will be copies heading out with the soldiers," Llanos said. "We need to pray for protection for our soldiers as they patrol and pray that God would continue to open doors. The soldiers are being placed in strategic places with a purpose. They're continuing to spread the Word."

"The shocking actions revealed just last week of American soldiers in the combat zones of Iraq and Afghanistan callously using the Koran for automatic weapons "target practice" is absolutely connected to the same issues of national security breach wrought by our United States armed forces proselytizing the local populations via the distribution to them of fundamentalist Christian coins, bibles, tracts, comics and related religious materials written in Arabic," Weistein said.

"The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been acutely aware of such astonishing unconstitutional and illicit proselytizing in Iraq and Afghanistan for over three years now and knows how massively pervasive it really is. These proselytizing transgressions are all blatant violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and MRFF is now demanding that any and all responsible military personnel be immediately prosecuted under Article 92 of the UCMJ: Failure to Obey an Order or Regulation," Weinstein added.

Members of the U.S. military first started actively proselytizing Iraqi Muslims soon after the U.S. invaded Iraq in March 2003.

Each and every U.S. citizen in Iraq who has participated in this travesty should be hauled off in stocks and locked up for violating the First Amendment, and anything else that could be levied against them! But then, they should be in line behind the prosecution of the first sitting president... like that will happen!

Land of the Free? Do these cretins sound like they are spreading freedom?

Let me pass this along here as well:

May 28, 2008

On this day in 1830 President Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act, leading to the Trail of Tears in which thousands died on the march to Oklahoma. In the language of the Cherokee it is "The trail where they cried."

Oh yeah! Real "Christian" Values, convert 'em or kill 'em... morons.