Ethics

AFA Throws Fit Over Confiscated Bibles in Afghanistan

By Ed Brayton

The American Family Association's OneNewsNow is in the midst of a full scale freakout over the Pentagon confiscating Bibles translated into the local dialects that were used by soldiers to try and convert the Afghani Muslims to Christianity. And as usual, they get almost everything wrong in reporting on the story.

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 videotape soldiers conducting 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.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 11, 2009 (boomark / email).