Military burns unsolicited Bibles sent to Afghanistan

[bijou]

Military personnel threw away, and ultimately burned, confiscated Bibles that were printed in the two most common Afghan languages amid concern they would be used to try to convert Afghans, a Defense Department spokesman said Tuesday.


The unsolicited Bibles sent by a church in the United States were confiscated about a year ago at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan because military rules forbid troops of any religion from proselytizing while deployed there, Lt. Col. Mark Wright said. ...

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/20/us.military.bibles.burned/index.html

[thundley4]

Yep, even having bibles in their country can be seen as insulting to the Islamic terrorists.

[RightCoast]

Exactly.

[PatriotGame]

Yep, even having bibles in their country can be seen as insulting to the Islamic terrorists.

...and 0bama grinned...and mile-wide assed MeeShell organismed in her rubber lined Isotoner girdle...

[JohnnyReb]

Just wait until the marauding Methodist hear about this.... OH, they already have? ...nevermind.