May 2012: Pentagon suspends course after study materials posted online suggested that Mecca and Medina may have to be obliterated: A course for US military officers has been teaching that America's enemy is Islam in general and suggesting that the country might ultimately have to obliterate the Islamic holy cities of Mecca and Medina without regard for civilian deaths, following second world war precedents of the nuclear attack on Hiroshima.
More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/...article
10 Ways the U.S. Military Has Shoved Christianity Down Muslims' Throats
Sep 2009: It's not just private religious organizations that act like Christian crusaders. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation was founded in 2005 by Mikey Weinstein, a U.S. Air Force Academy graduate and Reagan administration White House counsel, after the harassment his own sons faced as Jewish cadets at the academy led him to discover that the fundamentalist Christian takeover of the Air Force Academy was far from an isolated problem. It was a militarywide issue that needed to be confronted head on. But it quickly became apparent that MRFF's initial mission of protecting the rights of our men and women in uniform was only addressing part of the problem.
More: http://www.alternet.org/story/...page=1
June 2009: The internal battle over the religious soul of the US military. Growing evidence points towards a rising influence of evangelical Christianity, and with two wars still raging in Muslim countries with significant religious overtones, there could be serious consequences for the US mission.
More: http://www.aljazeera.com/...html
'Witness for Jesus' in Afghanistan
May 2009: US troops urged to share faith and filmed with local Bibles despite anti-proselytising rules. US soldiers have been encouraged to spread the message of their Christian faith among Afghanistan's predominantly Muslim population, video footage obtained by Al Jazeera appears to show. Military chaplains stationed in the US air base at Bagram were also filmed with bibles printed in the country's main Pashto and Dari languages.
More: http://www.aljazeera.com/....html
"The Crusade for a Christian Military": Are US Forces Trying to Convert Afghans to Christianity?
May 2009: The military is denying it allows its soldiers to proselytize to Afghans, following the release of footage showing US soldiers in Afghanistan discussing how to distribute Bibles translated into Pashto and Dari. We speak to Air Force veteran and former Reagan administration counsel Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, and journalist Jeff Sharlet, author of a Harper’s Magazine article on "The Crusade for a Christian Military."
More: http://www.democracynow.org/.../
US Soldiers in Afghanistan Told to "Hunt People for Jesus... So We Get Them into the Kingdom" (Video)
April 2009: New video evidence has surfaced showing that US military forces in Afghanistan have been instructed by the military's top chaplain in the country to "hunt people for Jesus" as they spread Christianity to the overwhelmingly Muslim population. Soldiers also have imported bibles translated into Pashto and Dari, the two dominant languages of Afghanistan. What's more, the center of this evangelical operation is at the huge US base at Bagram, one of the main sites used by the US military to torture and indefinitely detain prisoners.
More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/....html
On Wikipedia; The Tenth Crusade
U.S. President George W. Bush, from a press conference upon arrival at the South Lawn of the White House, September 16, 2001. : "We need to go back to work tomorrow and we will. But we need to be alert to the fact that these evil-doers still exist. We haven't seen this kind of barbarism in a long period of time. No one could have conceivably imagined suicide bombers burrowing into our society and then emerging all in the same day to fly their aircraft — fly U.S. aircraft into buildings full of innocent people — and show no remorse. This is a new kind of — a new kind of evil. And we understand. And the American people are beginning to understand. This crusade, this war on terrorism is going to take a while. And the American people must be patient. I'm going to be patient. But I can assure the American people I am determined, I'm not going to be distracted, I will keep my focus to make sure that not only are these brought to justice, but anybody who's been associated will be brought to justice. Those who harbor terrorists will be brought to justice. It is time for us to win the first war of the 21st century decisively, so that our children and our grandchildren can live peacefully into the 21st century." [1]
US President George W. Bush, from a rally for the troops in Alaska, February 16, 2002. : "I want to tell you something, we've got no better friends than Canada. (Applause.) They stand with us in this incredibly important crusade to defend freedom, this campaign to do what is right for our children and our grandchildren."[8] Alexander Cockburn, "The Tenth Crusade," Counterpunch, September 7, 2002. : "Islamic fanatics flew those planes a year ago and here we are with a terrifying alliance of Judaeo-Christian fanatics, conjoined in their dreams of the recovery of the Holy Lands of the West Bank, Judaea and Samaria. War on Terror? It's back to the late thirteenth century, picking up where Prince Edward left off with his ninth crusade after St Louis had died in Tunis with the word Jerusalem on his lips."[5][6] James Pinkerton, "Century In, Century Out - It's Crusade Time," Newsday, December 4, 2003. : "And now, in 2003, the Americans, the Twelfth Crusaders. The West is no longer 'Christendom,' but we, as first cousins to the Europeans, retain the old faith and bring new kinds of idealism, such as democracy and human rights. But the Crusader spirit is still there; it's still about bringing civilization and salvation of a backward people. As the born-again George W. Bush says, 'This is about good vs. evil.'"[7] In August 2001 The Philadelphia Trumpet a Protestant magazine published article The Last Crusade with opening lines "Most people think the crusades for Jerusalem are a thing of the past—over forever. They are wrong. Preparations are being made for a final crusade, and it will be the bloodiest of all!"[9]
1. "President: Today We Mourned, Tomorrow We Work". Georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. 2001-09-17. Retrieved 2010-06-07. link: http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010916-2.html
5. "Tells the Facts, Names the Names". CounterPunch. Retrieved 2010-06-07. link: http://www.counterpunch.org/
6. "Alexander Cockburn: The Tenth Crusade". Counterpunch.org. 2001-09-11. Retrieved 2010-06-07. link: http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn0907.html
7. Pinkerton, James (2003-12-03). "Century In, Century Out - It's Crusade Time". Newsday.com. Retrieved 2012-04-28. link: http://www.newsday.com/columnists/james-p-pinkerton/century-in-century-out-it-s-crusade-time-1.281113
8. "President Rallies the Troops in Alaska". Georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. 2002-02-16. Retrieved 2010-06-07. link: http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/02/20020216-1.html
9. http://www.thetrumpet.com/?q=7654.6246.130.0
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