Uh-ho... now the Evangelicals are starting to question foreign policy

[CornField]

How many more groups will have to come out against this administration's failed policy of preemptive war before someone will hold them accountable for their lies to the American people and the world?

http://www.forward.com/articles/7585

Evangelicals Reconsider Bush's Drive In Mideast

...Religious conservatives spent the past few weeks urging the White House to stop an Afghan court from executing Abdul Rahman, a convert to Christianity who is accused of violating Islamic law. After complaints from American officials, the case was dismissed. But the controversy left the Christian Right questioning the Bush administration's assumption that Muslim countries can become democratic even while adhering to Islamic law and Muslim customs.

"This has been a huge wake-up up call for a lot of people in the evangelical Christian population," said Jim Jacobson, president of conservative human rights organization Christian Freedom International. "The administration has been saying all along that democracy is the answer to all the problems. What people have seen in this case, however, is that democracy isn't the only answer and it does not resolve problems of religious discrimination and problems of the heart."

[Karenca]

1. This part is very interesting:

despite Musharraf's promises more than five years ago to stop discrimination against religious minorities, "discriminatory legislation fosters an atmosphere of religious intolerance" in Pakistan. Cromartie stopped short of arguing that Bush was turning a blind eye to Pakistan's religious intolerance to advance the war on terrorism. Commissioners were disappointed to find out that Bush did not focus on religious freedom in his meeting with Musharraf

and so is this.........

Like other Americans, conservative Christians find the Afghan case particularly disturbing because of the administration's deep involvement in shaping Afghanistan's new regime and the White House's frequent attempts to paint Afghanistan as the successful story of a theocracy turned democracy, observers said. Also, the case of Rahman put a personal face on a widespread problem.

[malaise]

5. What makes the US or its citizens believe

that they can tell civilizations that are thousands of years older than it that they can conduct some crusade and impose it's religious beliefs on any country on the planet. The people of the world have long known that christians come with the boble in one hand and take land and resources with the other. Fugg all religion.

[TahitiNut]

2. "Evangelicals Reconsider Bush's Drivel In Mideast"?

"a huge wake-up up call"?? ... like 12/12/2000 and 9/11/2001 and all the others weren't enough?

[flyarm]

3. i would say.......

the Evangelicals are...........

dumb as dirt!!!!!!!!!!

i wonder if they know how to spell ..oil, power and hegemony???????????

fly

[CornField]

4. People tend to only pay attention to the things which matter to them

In the case of evangelicals, their scope is pretty much limited to their religion. In other words, everything else is judged based on how it affects their religious beliefs.