First, as we noted back in May 2009, Al Jazeera kicked off a propaganda jihad with some year old footage showing Bibles in Afghanistan:
Probe call in Afghan ‘convert’ row
Monday, May 04, 2009
15:37 Mecca timeA former Afghan prime minister has called for an inquiry after Al Jazeera broadcast footage showing Christian US soldiers appearing to be preparing to try and convert Muslims in Afghanistan.Ahmed Shah Ahmedzai said there must be a "serious investigation" after military chaplains stationed in the US air base at Bagram were filmed discussing how to distribute copies of the Bible printed in the country’s main Pashto and Dari languages…Ahmed Shah Ahmedzai told Al Jazeera from Kabul on Monday: "This is a complete deviation from what they [the US military] are supposed to be doing."I don’t think even the US constitution would allow what they are doing … it is completely against all regulations."This is very damaging for diplomatic relations between the two counties … everyone knows people are very conservative here, very faithful to Islam. They will never accept any other religion."Someone who leaves Islam is sentenced very severely – the death penalty [is imposed]."There must be a serious investigation now that it has come out into the public and [into the] press," he said.Sayed Aalam Uddin Asser, of the Islamic Front for Peace and Understanding in Kabul, told Al Jazeera: "It’s a national security issue … our constitution says nothing can take place in Afghanistan against Islam."If people come and propaganda other religions which have no followers in Afghanistan [then] it creates problems for the people, for peace, for stability.The footage, shot about a year ago by Brian Hughes, a documentary maker and former member of the US military who spent several days in Bagram near Kabul, was obtained by Al Jazeera’s James Bays, who has covered Afghanistan extensively…It is not clear that the Bibles were distributed to Afghans, but Hughes said that none of the people he recorded in a series of sermons and Bible study classes appeared to able to speak Pashto or Dari.Hughes said: "The only reason they would have these documents there was to distribute them to the Afghan people and I knew it was wrong, and I knew that filming it … documenting it would be important." …Questioned about the footage, US colonel Greg Julian told Al Jazeera: "Most of this is taken out of context … this is irresponsible and inappropriate journalism."This footage was taken a year ago … the bibles were taken into custody and not distributed…
Again, as we noted at the time, the US Department of Defense naturally responded to these charges by destroying the Bibles in question.
From Reuters:
U.S. military says Afghan bibles have been destroyed
Tue May 5, 2009KABUL (Reuters) – Bibles in Afghan languages sent to a U.S. soldier at a base in Afghanistan were confiscated and destroyed to ensure that troops did not breach regulations which forbid proselytizing, a military spokeswoman said.The U.S. military has denied its soldiers tried to convert Afghans to Christianity, after Qatar-based 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.U.S. Central Command’s General Order Number 1 forbids troops on active duty — including all those based in Iraq and Afghanistan — from trying to convert people to another religion."I can now confirm that the Bibles shown on Al Jazeera’s clip were, in fact, collected by the chaplains and later destroyed. They were never distributed," spokeswoman Major Jennifer Willis said at Bagram air base, north of Kabul…
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This should be another example of the influence of Islamic propaganda - even within our military!
Guess the Muslim shooter at Ft. Hood was "overlooked" by the same military that burned the Bibles in Afghanistan!
America - wake up and smell the roses!
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