After September 11 attacks when former president George W. Bush referred to the war on terror as a “crusade”
This claim become a reality when a prominent United States Military leaders such as Lt. Gen. William Boykin described the American Army as "army of God."
Then after this Military leader, in May 2009 an article in Harper’s by Jeff Sharlet unveiled that US military is found busy in an internal battle over religious practice in Afghanistan and Iraq.
After all that another news came and this time it was about the former Defense secretary Mr Donald Rumsfeld’s Scripture-themed briefings to President Bush that paired war scenes with Bible verses. In an email from Pantagon it was denied as if Mr Donald Rumsfeld has done anything like that.
On may 9, 2009 Al-Jazeera came up with a clip showing stocks of Bibles translated into Pashto and Dari at the U.S. air base in Bagram and featuring the chief of U.S.( Pashto and Dari are 2 major languages of Afghanistan) In that video clip military chaplains in Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Gary Hensley, telling soldiers to “hunt people for Jesus.”
The Bible project was actually handled by former United States Army chaplain and his name is Jim Ammerman, The founder of the Chaplaincy of Full Gospel Churches (CFGC), an organization in charge of endorsing 270 chaplains and chaplain candidates for the armed services and he is 83-year-old . He worked with an evangelical group based in Arkansas, the International Missions Network Center, to distribute the Bibles through the efforts of his 40 active-duty chaplains in Iraq. A 2003 newsletter for the group said of the effort, "The goal is to establish a wedge for the kingdom of God in the Middle East, directly affecting the Islamic world."
After the video was uploaed on youtube, the Pentagon became active claimed that ''it had destroyed and confiscated the Bibles and said there was absolutely no effort or intention to convert Afghans''. Meanwhile the US army dismissed the Bagram Bibles as an isolated incident, While a civil-rights think tank group known as Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF), claims that this is not the case. According to the group's president, Mikey Weinstein, ''a cadre of 40 U.S. chaplains took part in a 2003 project to distribute 2.4 million Arabic-language Bibles in Iraq. This would be a serious violation of U.S. military Central Command's General Order Number One forbidding active-duty troops from trying to convert people to any religion. While back in US a Defense Department spokeswoman in an e-mail to NEWSWEEK, denies any knowledge of this project.
In 2001 A CFGC newsletter said that the real enemy of the U.S. is and wasn't Osama bin Laden, but it is Allah, whom the newsletter called "Lucifer." In 2006 issue argued that all Muslim-Americans should be treated with suspicion, as they "obviously can't be good Americans." In a 2008 sermon, Ammerman called Islam "a killer religion" and Muslims "the devil."
It is clear now that this war is not against terrorism but it is against Islam & Muslims. That is not my claim that is what this article says.
This world is making its way to Armageddon (Armageddon is a war which Christians believe is that it will be between good and evil ie good are the Christians and their allies and evil is the Muslim.)
I can write much more about this story but I am with a bad feeling, A feeling that is not allowing me to write, feeling which may increase my hate for US's so called war on terrorism and may be I will hate US for not stopping the activities against Islam.
One more thing I want to add that after Obama's speech to Muslim world I was happy and positive about the change in US and change in US's policy for Islam and Muslims but after going through this report I call Obama's speech A BULLSHIT and a Change is CRAP.
You can check the video attached with this report which was actually uploaded by Al-Jazeera where US army is being told to spread Christianity in Iraq & Afghanistan.
US troops urged to share faith in Afghanistan - 04 May 09
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVGmbzDLq5c&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ehuffingtonpost%2Ecom%2F2009%2F05%2F04%2Fsoldiers%2Din%2Dafghanistan%2Dg%5Fn%5F195674%2Ehtml&feature=player_embedded
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bush is the root n reason for all problems from nowadays.. this is my opinion
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