“U.S.
soldier detained after opening fire on Afghans; at least 16 killed
“The
Taliban was quick to weigh in on the incident, characterizing it as a
“massacre” committed during the course of a night raid by American and Afghan
forces.
“The
so-called American peace keepers have once again quenched their thirst with the
blood of innocent Afghan civilians,” the Taliban statement said.
“Provincial
officials sent an investigative team to the villages where the shootings took
place. The U.S. military launched its own probe.”
“Are U.S. troops being force-fed
Christianity?
A watchdog group alleges that improper evangelizing is occurring
within the ranks.”
The new
Crusades may well be underway. We are
currently engaged in a war in Afghanistan against a force of fundamentalist Moslems. We are ending our involvement in another
Moslem nation, Iraq, in which our major opponents are also Moslems of varying
degrees of fundamentalism. Inside our borders,
we are engaged in surveillance directed against domestic Moslem, many of whom
are citizens by birth and many others who are naturalized citizens.
Since the
attacks of September 2001, there has been a spiraling anti-Moslem behavior in
this nation that is frankly wrong and dangerous.
The
anti-Moslem behavior in the U.S. is largely driven by right wing evangelicals
via mega-churches and “church”-owned media outlets; and by the politicians who
look church ward for a political base and campaign financing.
While the 1st
Amendment to or Constitution prohibits any formation of a national church, the
right wing teavangelists, if they can find a way to circumvent the Bill of
Rights, would happily form and enforce a theocracy in the U.S. If any group of
citizens or any individuals attempt to maintain the integrity of the
Constitution by preventing a national religion being established, they are
quickly tarred with the anti-Christian\war on Christianity label and held up as
un-American. The mechanism is highly
reminiscent of the McCarthy era.
The military
basic training program is being used as a means of obtaining access to soldiers
in order to expand proselytization within the ranks using peer pressure and
official intimidation to force compliance.
The end result is an army that is being repeatedly and loudly told that
it is performing a “holy” war against anti-Christian forces at home and
overseas.
I seriously
believe that the driving force behind the murder of 16 Afghan civilians by a
single U.S. soldier will be tied to fundamentalist Christianity. It will be found to stem from anger over the
required awareness demanded toward Islam and Islamic traditions and, once
again, the perceived insults and fictitious war against Christianity. Someone within the soldier’s unit handed him
a bible, harangued him about “Christian rights” in Moslem nations, and shoved
him out into the local populace to become a Jihadi for Jesus, hopefully
initiating a new iteration of the Crusades.
I hope I am wrong,
that this was not instigated by the efforts of teavangelists in or out of
uniform. But this is no longer the America that believes in the 1st
Amendment or the 6th Amendment.
This is the America being shoved down the path to theocracy by leaders
who should know better and by citizens who have no reservations about forcing
their religion down the throats of their neighbors and fellow citizens.
And if the
teavangelists can destroy our Bill of Rights in the pursuit of a theocracy,
what are a few more Afghani deaths?
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