This is nuts.
The US’s highest ranking military officer has said it is not the US military’s position to promote any specific religion, after Al Jazeera revealed footage of troops apparently preparing to convert Afghans to their Christian faith.
“From the United States’ military’s perspective, it is not our position to ever push any specific kind of religion, period,” said Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Monday.
The US military has also confiscated Bibles that Christian US soldiers in Afghanistan had apparently intended to give to local Muslims, a military spokesman told Al Jazeera.
You can also watch a report on the same issue.
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May 8, 2009 at 3:56 am
This is absolutely irresponsible on the part of those soldiers, they are putting the credibility and the lives of other soldiers not partaking in these activities in risk as well as theirs, not to mention it is completely detrimental to the image of the US presence in Afghanistan and their mission. Leave the proselytizing to the missionaries, the US military is no place for missionaries and they should either be disciplined or I’d even suggest their dismissal from the military since they’re in direct violation of the US Constitution they swore to protect and the code of conduct of the military and International law.