Ethics

Soldiers Handing Out Swahili Bibles in Iraq

By Ed Brayton

Here's yet more video evidence of Christian groups using soldiers to proselytize Muslims in a war zone, this time in Iraq. The video is of an Army chaplain and officer, Capt. Chris Rusack, talking about raising money to ship bibles in Swahili to soldiers in Iraq so they can use them to convert Ugandan aid workers. And he talks about how the shipment of those Bibles to Iraq was held up by "the enemy" - meaning the military, which knows it's a violation of regulations to do this - until a high-ranking Colonel made sure they got distributed.

Chris Rodda has this video on Talk2Action along with more information. And as she notes, the group that is doing this has been explicitly praised by the Army's Chief of Chaplains, Maj. Gen. Douglas Carver even while they are violating army regulations and putting other soldiers at risk by trying to convert Muslims to Christianity in a war zone.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 08, 2009 (boomark / email).