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Washington: A Pentagon adviser is blasting what
he calls an "egregious" and "politically correct"
decision by the U.S. military to destroy Bibles sent to
troops in Afghanistan.
It has been reported earlier this month that Bibles in
Afghan languages sent to a U.S. soldier at a base in
Afghanistan were confiscated by chaplains and later
destroyed to make sure that troops did not violate rules
which bar them from sharing their faith. According to
the report, the Bibles were destroyed after Al Jazeera
television showed soldiers at a Bible class on a base
with a stack of Bibles translated into the local Pashto
and Dari languages. Lt. Col. Bob Maginnis (USA-Ret.) is
a Pentagon adviser and military and national security
analyst.
He finds it mind boggling to think that military
officials would allow Al Jazeera to walk through the
front gate of a forward operating base and video-tape
soldiers conduc ting a Bible study. "This is a bit
disingenuous, I think, that you would have a Saudi
Arabian
sponsored Al Jazeera television network making tapes on
an American facility of a Bible group so that they could
target and discriminate against our soldiers," he notes.
Christian troops give up a great deal to put themselves
in harm's way, so they should not have to give up their
own personal witness in that environment, according to
Maginnis. "By and large, soldiers should have the right
to share their faith wherever they are," he contends,
"and for the political correctness crew to come aboard
and declare that we're going to destroy Bibles because
of the sensitivity of the local command, I find
egregious.”
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