So It Begins..Wingnuts Now Say Bibles Were Burned

[SweepPicker]

Sorry if this has already been posted but we should have known this was going to happen:

A pro-family organization says it's hypocritical for high-ranking officials in the Pentagon to condemn a Florida church's plans to burn Qurans when U.S. military personnel burned Bibles last year in Afghanistan.



Pastor Terry Jones told reporters outside his church in Gainesville Wednesday afternoon that he remains unconvinced that "backing down is the right thing" to do regarding the planned burning of Qurans on Saturday. That protest has drawn objection from Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. and NATO commander, who says images of burning Qurans will be used by extremists to inflame public opinion and incite worldwide violence.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=1160612

[arbusto_baboso]

1. The US military burned bibles in Afghanistan?

Bullshit. Prove it motherfuckers.

[louis-t]

2. Again, it is illegal to proselytize in Afghanistan.

I believe the military felt it was the safest way to handle the situation.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Yes, they actually did burn Bibles. They were sent by an un-named church in the USA.

The military didn't ask for them to be sent.

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

(CNN) -- 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.

Such religious outreach can endanger American troops and civilians in the devoutly Muslim nation, Wright said.

[cleanhippie]

11. So it was to dispose of the garbage, not to make a point?

Not so much to "burn a bible to make a point" but to dispose of the trash

[sinkingfeeling]

12. So says the US Army.

[cleanhippie]

14. Considering how evangelicals are using the armed forces as a recruiting center

I don't see how this could/would have been anything other than disposing of unwanted stuff, if it in fact, happened.

[RKP5637]

4. It would be nice if there were no such thing as religion anyplace on earth. I'm so

tired of hearing about religious crap and I don't think I'm alone.

[SweepPicker]

5. Agreed

[piratefish08]

6. "Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q0Eyw3l3XM

[RKP5637]

9. +1000 +++ n/t

[gratuitous]

10. Yeah, "serve one another in love"; what a load!

:eyes:

[Arkana]

7. So what happened to being better than them, eh?

Guess that went right out the door.

[spanone]

8. who gives a shit. two wrongs don't make it right...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

13. The Bible is a holy book in Islam.

:shrug: